Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-03-16
Passenger Trains Run Into Each Othe,
Head-On in Binding Snowstorm
Near Pueblo, Colorado, and Aw-
full Holocaust Ensues---Scores
Killed and Injured.

seats. Two men, j. l.. LaWton, of Bell
flower, Missouri, and S. Fl. Sweeney Of
Trenton, Missouri, escaped with slight
injuries. Sweeney was pulled from
! the mass of wreckage just before the
fire reached him. The place where
the trains came together was near
mile-post No. 147. The trains were
rounding sharp curve, around high
bluff 1t was impossible for the en-.
gineers to see the other train until
within about 200 yards of each other
At this point the Santa Fe and Rio
trande tracks run close together and
it was easy for the engineer to sup.
pose that an On-coming train was on
the Santa Fe track.
The snow began falling at midnight
The severe cold added to the suffer
ings of the victims
According to the first orders, the
trains were supposed to meet at Ad-
ODE, one half mile from the scene of
the wreck At Florence, No. 16 receiv-
ed orders to meet No. 3 at Beaver, five
miles east of Portland 1t was sup
posed that No. 8 was to have been
given similar orders at Swallows, but
failing to receive these. ran on to Ad-
ODE.
16 Dead; "a Injured.
bof trln
arrived with the bodies of sixteen of
the dead. They were taken to an un-
dertaking establishment, where the
work of Identification began. AT noon
it was said only two bodies,
those of Engineer Cosslett, and Engin-
eer Hollis, had been identified.
The bodies are so blackened by
fire that it is difficult to identify them.
How many more bodies are still at the
scene of the wreck ii is impossible to
establish at this hour. 1t can be stat
ed positively that sixteen are killed
and "a injured The injured are:
George Bradshaw, Chicago, foot
smashed; S. w. Fields, Laramie, leg
broken; Philip Peters, address un-
known, ribs broken, head cut; James
Trociene, Florence, leg lacerated; r.
|. Jones, mail weigher, chest and head
injured; A. Z. Smith, fireman, slightly;
w. A. Watkins of Denver, head cut;
John Scott. of Denver. Colorado.
cut in arms and legs; A. CARRIER, of
New York, ear injured; Ralph Bor.itol.
of Brighton, Iowa, neck hurt; l.. c.
Ranscotto, of San Francisco, neck
hurt; David McCullam, of Chicago,
porter, inhaled gas; Sarah Calligan, Of
Cleveland, Ohio, head cut; My'ort Phii.
lips, of Salt Lake, ankle hurt; w. J..
Paul, of Portland, foot injured Tom
Webb, of Chama, New Mexico, foot
hurt, Claude Robinson, of Denver. leg
hurt; w. R. Page, of Yampa, seriouly;
Ralph Britton, of Brighton, Iowa, seri-
ously; Mabel Fields, Of Wolcott, Colo
RADIO, seriously; Arthur E. Hewitt, of
Lebo, Kansas, serious; N. W. Phillips,
of Codyville, Illinois, slight; G. G.
House, of Chama, New Mexico, slight;
j. Percano, of Florence, Colorado,
slight; Ed Brannen, of Leadville,
slight; Jack Scott, of Montrose, Colo
RADIO. slight; T. Fl. Webb, of Yam
pa, Colorado, slight; Bert Meyers, of
Pottsyille, Missouri, slight; w. L..
Hewitt, of Lebo, Kansas, slight;
Claude Robinson of Denver, serious;
e. Goldberg, of Denver, slight.
Reports Were Exaggerated.
Denver, Marcn 16.-The local otl-
cials of the Denver & Rio Grande
state that the early reports of the
wreck were exaggerated. They claim
that only sixteen people were killed,
none of whom were in the Pullmans
and that none of the injured are fatal
| ly hurt Those killed were in the
smoking car on Number 3.