CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1906-03-22

at ADOBE SWltCn, tnTee miles east Vi
Florence Friday morning at o'clock
will rank as one of the great railroad
disasters of the Arkansas valley.
binding blizzard was blowing and the
thermometer was two degrees below
zero.
Rio Grande passenger train No. g.,
from Denver, collided with No. 16 from
Leadville Operator Frank Lively at
Swallows slep at his key and failed to
deliver orders.
There were 159 passengers on train
No. 3. or these III have been account
ed for. The list OF dead as given out
by the officials of the Rio Grande road,
and which is as nearly accurate as
can be made, is here given.
WILLIAM HOLLIS. engineer No. 16,
Pueblo.
WALTER cossLETT, engineer No.
8, Pueblo.
H. H. suDDETH. fireman No. 1s,
Pueblo.
EDWARD d. BAIRD. deputy sheriff,
Denver.
r. G. WHITNEY. on way to peni-
tentiary at Canon City. in charge OF
Baird. Denver.
A. n. BARTLO. Salida-
MISS GRACE BARTLO, Salida.
ENEAS M'PARLAND. express mes
senger. Denver.
RAY FIELD. age 10, Keystone. Wy
oming.
TAYLOR HEWITT. Lebo. Kansas.
MRS. LILLIAN HEWITT. Lebo.
Kansas.
MRS. wINoNA HEWITT. Lebo.
Kansas.
MRS. KATHERINE HEWITT and
baby boy, Lebo. Kansas.
CLAUDE HEWITT, Lebo. Kansas.
PEARL HEWITT. Is years old. Le-
bo. Kansas.
MRS. BELLE WEBB. Keystone. Wy
oming.
ED. COwLEY. Emporin, Kansas
MRS. GRACE COwLEY and baby.
Emporia. Kansas.
FRED JONES. Lebo, Kansas.
FRED ..IMECOOLEY. Denver.
THOMAS BRENNAN, Leadville. Col
GRADE.
In the morgue at Florence Saturday
heaps OF blackened ashes were all
that remained of the score or more
bodies that are not listed among the
identified dead nor among the injured.
These are the missing. and probably
there will never be any way to identity
any OF them. -.
"Missiug after the Adobe wreck
will be the epitaph of score or more
Of messengers on the Inflated train.
The Injured:
CLARK. c. T., Portland. Colorado
head cut.
BRITToN. RALPH. Brighton. Ia.
injured seriously.
BRANNEN. EDWARD, Leadville'
slight.
left foot crushed.
BURNSIDE. MRS. WILLIAM. and
daughter. and latters child. Kansas,
(town not knowp.)
ELRoD, IRA, Gypsum. Colorado. feet
crushed.
RAMSCoTTOM, S. c., San Francisco
Cal, neck injured.
ROSE, l.. H.. mail clerk No. 3. Den
yer, bruised.
SWEENEY, F. H., Clinton. Mo-. foot
crushed.
SCOTT. JACK. Montrose, slightly in
jured
SCOTT. JOHN. Denver. arms and leg
cut.
SMITH. l.. c., fireman. Pueblo,
slightly injured.
TRoSIENE, JAMES. Florence, right
leg lacerated.
yEAL.E, j. c., commercial traveller,
1141 Emmerson street, Denver
WHITMoRE, MRS. JOHN, Grand
Junction. Colorado. shin bruised.
WEBB. THoS. H.. Yampa, Colorado
right foot sprained.
WRIGHT. C. NJ. 557 One Hundred
and Forty Eighth street, New YORK
city. head slightly injured.
WATKINS, w. A., Denver, cut on
head.
WOOD. EDWARD F.. mail clerk No.
3, Denver, bruised.
GERBER, A., sS7 East Third avenue.
(town not given) ear injured
The Worst In tho Valley.
Old-time railroad men say that they
never saw n worse wreck than the
ono which occurred at Adobe Friday
morning. There have been railroad
accidents In which more lives were
loat. hut never in their recollection has
there been one SO full of horror as
this. All OF the passengers who were
killed were in the day coach on NO.
4 the westbound train, and 1t 10 I'M
possible to tell how many OF them were
killed outright by the collision and
how many were slowly roasted to
death in the flames which enveloped
the coaches almost an instant after
the trains came together.
The head engine OF train NO y
which was double-header. WAS to-
tally demolished. the big machine and
its tender bsing squeezed into space
.carcely ten feet In length between