The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-03-21

MISS Grace Bairtlo, SaIida.
1aylor Hewitt, Lebo, Kansas.
Mrs. 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, EN-
poria, Kansas.
Fred Jones, Lebo, Kansas.
Fred Limecooley, Denver.
Mrs. Belle Webb, Keystone, Wyo-
ming.
Ray Field, aged ten, Keystone, Wyo-
ming.
Thomas Brennan. Loadville.
In fated car. bound for the coast
was family party consisting OF eleven
persons. OF that party but two have
survived the awful crash and the holo-
caust which followed
In one awful moment the family OF
Taylor Hewitt of Iebo, Kansas, was
all wiped out of existence.
The PARTY. when il left Lebo. was
composed of Taylor Hewitt, the father;
Pearl Hewitt, fifteen years old; Mrs,
Lillian Hewitt, wife OF the elder Hew-
lit; W. l.. Hewitt and his wife, Wi
mona; E. A. Hewitt and his wife,
Catherine, and his baby, Claudius, four
months old; Ed. Cowley, son-in-law.
and his wife, and Fred Jones.
OF this number but w. l.. Hewitt and
his brother, Il. \. Hewitt. survive. 1t
is but little that either Of the survivors
of the Inflated family can tell of the
awful disaster.
MIR. Hewitt found his brother. who
was wandering about in "A daZed con
dition. How the second Mr.. Hewitt
escaped from the wreck is not known,
he not being able to tell how he nap
pended 10 be ON the outside of the car.
In the first coach OF train No. ;. in
which the greatest havoc was wrought,
were a large number of foreigners.
Italians. Slavs 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 trainmon there were so
many Italians or so many Slays. repre-
scented 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
dimmcd by long watching for the wan
dcrors doomed never TO return.
Possibly it will never be known ex-
actly how many persisted in the wreck
at Adobe. At headquarters in this
city 1t is still maintained the exact
| of
whom eighteen wer, passengers and
four train employees.
According to the reports of the two
conductors the count shows that there
were 1873 passengers ON No. 3 and for.
| ty-eight ON No. l6. or 2o7 on the two.
The injured passengers and those who
escaped unframed added to the num-
Der of bodies taken ont tallies with the
train count All of the killed. except
ing the four trainmeu were in the one
car. Train. No. , had made no stop
afater leaving Pueblo At that place
/ nine persons got on and thirty got on.
Deputy Sheriff +. f. Baird of Den
yer. one of those killed in the wreck,
was taking Archibald Whitney to
Canon City to serve long sentence in
I the State PCuitcutiary. 1t was AT first
reported that after Mr.. Baird's death
which seems to have been instan
taneuus at the lime of the collision
/ Whitney was burned TO death while
chained to the seat and unable 10
break loose.
| But UndCrshgrif Thomas Baird
brother of the usiicer who was killed
when talked with at Denver. said that
! he had talked 10 the coroner who
found a pair OF handouts in the wreck
across n 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
/ Nisbet chain the prisoners to the
seat. have talkon with Baird many
times about This very thing and he
was always opposed 10 the practice
| Baird always claimed that the proper
way to conduct prisoner was to
/ haudcuff the right arm of the prisoner
to the left arm Of the officer. Baird
] left Denver with the prisoner. White
in this way and hey We're seen in the
| train was handCuffed together. Baird
would be the last man to handcuu a
prisoner 10. seat. l am confident that
he did not 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 handcuf prisoner
| to 4 seat. and ] am sure that ne did
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