Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-16
FRIGhTFUL RAIL-
 ROAD WRECK
TWO PASSENGER TRAINS COL
 LIDE HEAD-ON.
Thirty-Nine Are Known to Be Dead and the Number of Injured Not Estimated-Many of vic-
 tins Burned Alive.
tims Burned Alive.

Pueblo, Col, March 16.-With the dead numbered at fifty or more and the injured at twenty-five the worst railroad wreck in Colorado since the memorable disaster at Eden occurred early this morning on the Denver & Rio Grande near Adobe. East bound No 16 crashed into west bound No 3, telescoping the forward cars on each train. The coaches at once took fire Snd the flames completed the horror begun by the collision.
 The cause of the wreck is attrtb- uted to a failure to deliver orders to No 16, SO that No 3 could pass.
 Among the physicians who rem dered assistance were Dr F. N. Cochens, of Salida, who was on No 16 at the time of the collision, but who escaped injury. He at once be- gan caring for the wounded and was assisted by Doctors G. w. Rambo and F. R. Moore, of Florence, who soon arrived at the scene of the disaster.
 Some of the victims were piniOned under the wreckage and burned alive belore help could reach them. Most of the injured were on No 3, which was heavily loaded. No 16 carried comparatively few passengers and these escaped generally with slight shaking up. One man, whose name could not be learned, was the only one of family of ten who escaped. He lost his father, mother, wife and three children, brother and two other relatives.
 Three of the crew on No were killed and two on No 16. One of the engineers on No 8, which was a double header, was found dead in his cab, with his hand on the throttle.
 Express Messenger E. M. McPar- Ian, a relative of the detective of that name, now active in the Cover nor Steunenberg assassination case, is among the dead. Many of the bodies will never be identified. They were burned to crisp. Part of the mail was destroyed and all the ex- press matter.
 Relief trains were at once dis patched to the scene from Pueblo and Florence, but the work was ne- cessarily slow, because of the smoke from the burning wreck and because of the cold weather. The first train bearing injured reached Pueblo shortly after o'clock.
 Recovered bodies and identified dead:
 William Hollis, engineer, No. 16.
 E. M. McFarlan, Globe express messenger. No 16.
 Walter Causlet, engineer first en- zine No 3, Pueblo.
 A. H. Smii--, fireman to Engineer Causlet.
 It is stated that just before the collision he saw the headlight of train No 16 as 1t rounded the curve about 200 yards distant. He went to the engineers side and saw Engi- neer Causlet at the emergency brake. he stopped down, and feeling Caus- let's feet upon his back, jumped. Not a word passed between the two men.
 Grant Kelker of Pueblo, engineer of the second engine of No 3, and Harry Hartman, his fireman, both mo- ticed the headlight of No 16 as it rounded the curve. Kelker yelled Look out!" and applied the emer- gency brakes. Both escaped by jumping. Engineer Kelker said that he had barely recovered himself when the whole train seemed to be afire.
 The noon extra edition of the Chieftain announced to-day that there were thirty-nine killed in the wreck.