The Ordway new era., 1906-03-23
|fElRFUl WRECK AND Loss OFLIFE
D. &R. 6. RAILROAD COLLISION

1 A. N. Bairtlo. Salida.
Miss Grace Bairtlo. Salida.
Taylor Hewitt. Lebo. Kansas.
Nro. Lillian Hewitt, Lebo. kansas-
Mrs. WinonA Hewitt, Lebo. kansas
Pearl Hewitt. fifteen years old. Lebo
Kansas.
Mrs, Katherine Hewitt and boy
baby. Lebo. Kansas.
Ed. Cowley. Emporia. Kansas.
Mrs. Grace Cowley and baby. Em'
poria. Kansas.
| Fred Jones, Lebo. Kansas.
Fred Limecooley. Denver.
Mrs. Belle Webb. Keystone. Wyo'
ming.
Ray Field, aged ten. Keystone. Wye.
ming.
Thomas Brennan. Leadville.
| In a fated car, bound for the coast.
was a family party consisting OF eleven
persons. OF that party but two have
survived the awful crash and the hoio-
caust which followed.
In one awful moment the family OF
Taylor Hewitt OF Lebo. Kansas. was
all wiped out Of existence.
The PARTY. when 1t left Lebo. was
composed OF Taylor Hewitt, the father.
Pearl Hewitt. fifteen years old Mrs.
Lillian Hewitt, wife OF the elder Hew-
iii: w. L. Hewitt and his wife. WI
mona: Z. A. Hewitt and his wife,
Catherine. and his baby. Claudius. four
months old; Ed. Cowley. n son-in-law.
and his wife. and Fred Jones.
OF this number but W. l.. Hewitt and
his brother, T.. A. Hewitt. survive 1t
is but little that either OF the SURVIVORS
OF the ill.fated family can tell OF the
awful disaster.
MIR. Hewitt found his brother. who
was wandering about in n dazed con-
,, dition. How the second Mr.. Hewitt
escaped from the wreck is not known.
he not being able to tell how he hap
pended to be on the outside OF the car.
In the first coach OF train No. j. In
which the greatest havoc was wrought,
were n large number OF foreigners.
Italians, Slays and Huns, bound for the
Pacific coast. The "homeseekers" rate
OF s25 TO Pacific coast points had
tempted these TO make the journey.
There is almost an absolute GER
tainty that the exact number OF these
will never be known and that their
identy will never be established. No
one knew whom these people were or
where they were going.
To the trainmen there were so
many Italians or so many Slays, repre-
sented in the majority OF instances by
block tickets. Their few scattered
bones will fill the graves of the un'
known, while in the old home far
across the seas there will be eyes
dimmed by long watching for the wan
derers doomed never to return.
Possibly II will never be known eI-
actly how many perished in the wreck
at Adobe. At headquarters in this
city II is still maintained the exact
number OF killed was twenty.four. of
whom eighteen were passengers and
four train employees.
According to the reports of the two
conductors the count shows that there
were l59 passengers on No. and for
weight ON No. lG. or 20T on the two.
The injured passengers and those who
escaped unharmed added TO the num-
Der of bodies taken out tallies with the
train count. All of the killed, except
ing the four trainmen. were in the one
car. Train No. 3 had made no stop
afater leaving Pueblo. At that place
nine persons got OF and thirty got on.
Deputy Sheriff Z. E. Baird of Den
yer. one of those killed in the wreck,
was taking Archibald Whitney TO
Canon City to serve long sentence in
the State Penitsniiary. II was at first
reported that after Mr.. Birds death.
which seems TO have been instan-
isneous a. the time OF the collision.
Whitney was burned 10 death while
chained 20 the sea; and unable to
break lososs
But UrdsrkheTi. Thomas Baird.
brother Of -ss o1cs- who was killed.
when talked with 3. Denver. said that
he had talked 70 the coroner who
found pair o. handouts in the wreck
across q charred body No iron was
fastened TO the handouts as would
have been the case had he been
chained TO the seat
None Of the officers" said Sheriff
Nisbe,. chain the prisoners to the
seat. I have tzIken with Baird many
times about this very thing and he
vas always opposed to the practice.
Baird always claimed that the proper
way TO conduct a prisoner was 10
handcur the right arm Of the prisoner
10 the left arm Of the ofhceJ. Baird
left Denver with the prisoner. White.
in this way and they were seen in the
train was handcufed together. Baird
would be the last man to handcuff a
prisoner to a seat ! am confident that
he did no, do this, as have stated he
was very much opposed to doing so. In
conferences with the other deputies
held several times Baird always said
that he would not handcun prisoner
10 a seat, and I am sure that he did
not DO Il in this instance"
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
RaiIroaders Discouraged.