Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-03-16
VICTIMS BURNED ALIVE
Thew We're PiniOned Under the Wreck
ace and Could Not Be Gotten Out
in Time TO Save Them.
ONE SURVIVOR OF FAMILY OF TEN
Detective McParland's Brother
a Victim.
NONE WERE HURT ON THE SLEEpER8
A,.ocia,ed Press Dispatch by Special Wire.

A,.ooialed Press Dispatch by Special Wire.
Pueblo. Col, March l6. With the dead
numbered AT so or more. and the injured
al 35 the worst railroad wreck in Colo
RADIO Since the memorable disaster at Eden
occurred early this morning on the Denver
4 Rio Gande Railroad near Adobe Gast-
hound no. l6 crashed into westbound No.
3 teIcsc0ping the forward cars of each
train The coaches at once took fire and
thc flames completed tho horror begun
by fine collision.
lhe cause OF the wreck is attributed 10
failure 10 deliver orders TO No. is, So
that SO. 3 could pass.
some of the victims were pinioned
under the wreckage and burned alive
before help could reach them. Most of
the injured we're on No. 3. which was
heavily loaded. No. 10 carried COM
partively few passengers and these
escaped generally with a slight shaking.
one man. whose name could not be
learned was the only one of family of
10 whoYescaped. He lost his father aud
mother wife and three children, a brother
and two other relatives.
Three of the crew on No. 3 were killed
and two on No 49, One OF the engineers
on No 3. which was a double header. was
found dead in bis cab, with his hand on
the throttle.
Express Messenger Z. NJ Mcfarland q
relative of the detective of that name
now active in the Gov. Stcunenburg
assassination case. Is among the dead.
Many of the bodies will never be identi-
fed They were burned TO a crisp. Part
of the mail was destroyed and al the eX-
press matter
Relief trains we're at once dispatched
TO the scene from Pueblo and Florence
bat the work was necessarily slow because.
of the smoke from the burning wreck and
ihe cold weather. The first train bearing
injured reached Pueblo shortly after Is
cloek
Recovered bodies and identified dead
William Hollis, engineer, No. Is; J.. NJ
Mcfarland Globe Express messenger. No.
l6, Walter Causlet, engineer first engine
Of 80. 3. Pueblo, leaves widow and three
children
A. H Smith. fireman to Engineer Caus-
leit, stated that Just before the collision
he saw the headlight of train No. rs as
D rounded the curve, about 200 yards
distant. He went TO the engineer side
and saw Engineer Causlet at the emer-
gency brakes. Not a word passed be-
tween the two men.
No. was composed of a mail car, eX-
press car, two day coaches, two tourist
and two standard sleepers All the
sleeper, were saved, none OF the occu-
pants being injured.
All three engines we're practically
demolished and piled in "a heap and
within a few minutes after the collision
the Wreckage was a mass Of flames.
The first three cars of No we're piled
up but before the wreckage took fire
most of the passengers were removed.
80 far as known at this time Express
Messenger Mcfarland was the only one
caught Ia the wreckage and burned TO
death
According TO a statement of a passenger
100 the front coach OF No. 3, there were
only eight or 10 vacant seats In the car
j. J.. Lawton Of Bellhower, No. and s.
II Sweeney of Trenton, Mo, escaped
with slight injuries Lawtons back was
badly wrenched and his left leg cut
oweeney's left leg was pinioned beneath
'ho wreck and badly mashed. He was
pulled from the wreckage by two men
ll.l before the fire reached HIM
Mao llIlOnHlllt lNI lilt tflLIIlNtI lA
either train to see the other until the two
trains We're within about 200 yards of each
other At this point the Santa fe and
Denver and Rio Grande tracks run close
logeiher and it was easy for each engine
man to suppose that the oncoming train
was ON the Santa Fe track
According to the first orders, the trains
were supposed to meet at Adobe, one
l.ali mile from the scene of the wreck.
AZ Florence, No. rs received orders to
meet No. at Beaver. FIVE miles cast Of
ioHhnd. II is supposed No. was TO
nave been given similar orders at Swal-
.o". but failing to receive them, ran on
90 Adobe.
Vut of the Hewitt family OF H. only
l"o escaped. The Others were burned TO
O crisp
During the progress of the fire one
t.ih was seen hanging from a ear window.
ror Gods sake, save me, he cried, but
me heat was too intense for the rescuers
10 reach hims He slowly roasted 10
l leai b before the eyes of the crowd around
We burning wreck.
PLACES FATALITIES AT 80.
In am exrta edition the Pueblo Chief
Ialn announces that 80 persons two en-
siheels, one fireman. one express mes
fngef and S5 passengersl were killed in