The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-16
CROWDED TRAINS
CRASH IN NIGHT
Passengers Crushed to Death as They
Waken, or Are Pinned Under Debris
to Die in Flame and Torture.

the train and brought to this city. I'm
dertakers went to the scene of the
wreck on the first relief train and as
sisted in extricating the dead and dying
passengers.
Many of the bodies will never be
identified. having been burned to a
crisp. Part of the mail was destroyed
and all the express matter.
Relief trains were at once dispatched
to the scene from Pueblo and Florence,
but the work was necessarily slow, be-
cause of the smoke from the burning
wreckage and because of the cold
weather.
Family Of Mine Killed.
Out Of family of eleven named
Hewitt, only two escaped. The others
were burned to crisp.
During the fire one man was seen
emerging from a car window. For
Gods sake save me- he cried, but
the heat was too intense for the res
cuers to reach him. He slowly roasted
to death before the eyes of the crowd
around the burning wreck.
Many thrilling rescues were reported.
|, One man forced his way into a coach
that had received the brunt of the
shock and, seeing young girl who had
been pinned under a seat, endeavored to
lift her to a place of safety. AS he
raised her the girl gave a gasp and
died In his arms.
The rescuer dropped his burden and
roof timber. He dragged the man to
clearing in the wreckage, where other
hands carried him to safety. This one
man was seen to rescue four different
persons from the wreckaga
+ Where Wreck Occurred.
The place where the trains came to-
l get her was near noi1enost 1A7
trains We're rounding q sharp curve,
4 around a high bluff, just short dis
lance west of where passenger No. l6
{ ea.ad freight Ne. 63 coliided Oct. Is,
s19O4, when seven persons were killed
, and many injured. It was impossible
: for the engineer of either train to see
the other until the two trains were
i within about two hundred yards Of
n each other. At this point the Santa
; Fe and Denver & Rio Grande tracks
run close together and its was easy
5 for the engine men to suppose that the
4 oncoming train was on the Santa Fe
: track.
Q Snow began falling before midnight.
}, The severe cold increased the suffer
n ings of the victims.
It According to the first orders the
n trains were supposed to meet at Adobe.
Q one half mile Prom the scene of the
It wreck. At Florence No. 16 received
n orders to meet No. 3 at Beaver, five
e miles east of Portland. It is supposed
e No. 8 was to have been given similar
r orders at Swallows, but failing to re-
IL ceive them, ran on to Adobe.
The Injured.
I 7. P. Webb, Tampa, Col, slightly.
2 Bert Meyers, Huntsville, No. slight
>. ly.
w. L. Hewitt, Lebo, Kan, slightly.
I Claude Robinson, Denver. serious
4 s. Goldberg, Denver, slightly.
- w. R. Page, Tampa, Col, Serious
=, Ralph Britton, Brighton, Iowa,
serious.
! Mabel Fields, Wolcott, Col, serious.
q Arthur E. Hewitt, Lebo, Kan.
20 serious.
% n. W. Phillips. Coyville, Kan, slight
8 G. G. House, Chama, N. NJ, slight.
n J. Perciano, Florence, Col, slight.
y, Jack Scott, Montrose, Col, slight
:. Ed Brannen, Leadville, slight.
&c John Scott, Denver, arms and leg cut
~ A. CARRIER, New York, cut on ear
ie L. G. Ranscottom, San Francisco, necl
~ bruised.
re- Dave Mcoullam, Chicago, porter, in
~ hailed gas.
le Sarah Galligan, Cleveland, Ohio, Gu
on head.
Myron Phillips: Salt Lake City, ankl
hurt.
,e w. F. Paul, Portland, Ore, foot hurt
Id Thomas Webb, Chama, n. NJ, foo
Mt hurt.