The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-23
Impossible to Tell Exactly, as
Many of the Victims Were
Burned to Ashes.
Twenty Two Known to Have Been In.
iured, None, However,
Dangerously.
The Trains Involved Were the
Utah-Cnlifornin Express and the
ColOrndo-New Mexico Express.
The Trains, Running at Full Speed,
Met On n Sharp Curve, Owing
to Failure to Deliver
an Order.

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accompanied with horrors exceeded
only by the Eden disaster, which oc.
CURED August Z, 1904, on the line OF
the same railroad, resulted from a
head-on collision of two passenger
trains on the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad four miles east of Florence,
Col, at an early hour Friday morning,
The trains were the Utah-California
express, No. 8, west-bound from Den
Yer and the Colorado-New Mexico ex-
press No. 16, east-bound from Lead.
vile and Grand Junction. They met
on Il, sharp curve and were less than
200 yards apart when the engineers dis
covered that a collision was imminent.
A Futile Effort.
1t IS known that the engineer of the
w~est-bound train put forth every pos
sible effort to bring his train to a
stop, but his efforts were fruitless,
and although he succeeded in check
ing the speed of his train, the crash
that followed was beyond his power
to prevent, and he went to his death
with his hand on the throttle, faithful
~ lie Cudl &c. lulS uluCu Is tOuCueu
for by his fireman, who, seeing the
uselessness of remaining in the face
of sure death, jumped and saved him
self. OF the conduct Of the entire
crew of the e%ast-bound train it can
only be said that they died at their
post, for no one lives to tell the story
of their herolsm.
Fire Swept the Wreck.
The disaster was made more hor-
rible by the manner of the death of
many of the passengers, variously es.
timated from 20 to 35. Fire swept
over the wreck, engulfing the victims
in a caldron of flame and leaving-enly
charred and ~blackened bones to tell
the tale of slaughter.
A list of the injured given out by
officials of the railroad company COM
prises % m None of the injured
are dangerously hurt, and it is be.
lieved will ecover. A list of dead
made up from close observation by
responsible persons (the railroad Of
ficials refusing to make a list for pub
lication) follows:
h known Dead.
William Hollis, engineer No. IL;
Pueblo.
Walter Cosslett, engineer No. 8;
Pueblo.
H. D. sudduth, fireman No. IL;
Pueblo.
Edward E. Baird, deputy sheriff,
Denver.
Archibald Whitney, prisoner on way
to ~penitentiary at Canyon City, in
charge of Baird; Denver.
Mrs. William Burnside, daughter.
and daughters child, all of Kansas.
town not learned.
A. N. Barklo. Salida, Col.
Mrs. Grace Barklo,-Salida, Col.
Eneas Mcfarland, express messenger;
Denver.
Taylor Hewitt, Lebo, Kas.
Mrs. Lillian Hewitt, Lebo, Kas.
Pearl Hewitt, Is years old; Lebo, Kas.
Mrs. Catherine Hewitt and baby boy,
Lebo, Kas.
Ed Cowley. Lebo, Kas.
Fred Jones, Lebo, Kas.
Fred Lemcooley, Denver.
Mrs. Ed Cowley, Lebo, Kas.
Mrs. Winona Hewitt, Eebo, Kas.
The Injured.
Patrick Murphy, Florence, COL; &C.
riously.
P. Peters, baggageman. Denver; ribs
broken; head cut.
James Proconone. travelling to Flor
ence, Col. from Italy; head hurt and
otherwise injured.
Ira Elrod, Gypsum. Col; foot
sprained.
Miss Mabel Fields, address not given;
travelling to Wolcott, COL; injuries Sc