Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-03-21
VICTIMS CREMA1ED
RESULT OF TERRIBLE WRECK
NEAR PUBLIC, COLORADO.
Employee forgot to deliver an order
and two passenger trains came to.
gether during binding storm
Wrecked trains soon was ablaze and
passengers burned alive.

In binding storm which made it
almost impossible for the trainmen to
see ahead, two passenger trains col.
lided headon at point on the Denver
G. Rio Grande road midway between
Portland and Adobe, 25 miles west Of
Pueblo, Friday morning. Immediate
following the collision several of Il
cars burst into flames and were co.
sumed, a number of the passenger
burned to death. over 30 other
were injured, but of these none wer
fatally hurt.
The wreck was accompanied wi
horrors exceeded only by the Eden d
aster. which occurred August 7. 10
on the line of the same railroad. 7
trains were the Utah. California
press No. 3, westbound from Denver.
and the Colorado-New Mexico express
No. 16. eastbound from Leadville and
Grand Junction. They met on sharp
curve. They were less than 200 yards
apart when the engineers discovered
that collision was imminent.
The cause Of the wreck Is attributed
to the failure of an employe to de-
liver an order which changed the meet
ing place Of the two trains.
While the exact number Of lives lost
in the Adobe wreck will never be
known, 1t will undoubtedly take rank
among the great disasters in the his.
tory of railroading.
In other wrecks there has been
greater loss of life. but none has been
productive of greater horrors.
Conservative estimates on the loss
of life place the number of dead at SO.
Seventeen charred, mangled and un-
recognizable bodies lie in the Pueblo
morgue, two others are in the morgue
at Florence. several other persons are
known to be dead and possibly score
Of bodies were burned to ashes.
There was not a single entire body
recovered from the wreckage, with the
exception of the enginemen. who. al.
though horribly mangled, had not been
reached by the fierce flames which
swept through the wreckage.
Bits of charred flesh and piles of
bones we're all that Indicted that a
holocaust had occurred, but trained
eyes picked out the pelvic bones from
TIE charred masses. and from these 1t
was seen that, SO far as the search
had progressed, no less than SO human
beings had perished.
List Of Dead. ,.
Following is a partial list of those
who perished In the wreck:
William Hollis, engineer No. 16,
Pueblo. 3
Walter Coslett. engineer No. 8.
Pueblo.
H. d. sudduth. fireman No. l6,
Pueblo.
Edward E. Baird. deputy sheriff,
Denver.
Archibald Whitney. prisoner. on the
way to the penitentiary at Canon City
in charge Of Baird. Denver.
Mrs. William Burnside, daughter
and daughters child, all of Kansas
town not learned.
A. N. Barklo. Salida.
Aeneas McPharland, express mes.
senger, Denver.
Taylor Hewitt, Lebo Kan.
Mrs. Lillian, Lebo, Kan.
Pearl Hewitt, Is years Of age, Lebo,
Kan.
Mrs. Catherine Hewitt and baby boy.
Lebo, Kan.
Mrs. Winona Hewitt, Lebo, Kan.
Ed Cowley. Lebo. Kan.
Fred ones, Lebo, Kan.
Mrs. Ed Cowley. Lebo, Kan.
Fred Cooley, Denver.
Patrick Murphy. Florence, Col.
Ray Field. aged 10, Keystone, Wyo.
Mrs. Belle Webb, Keystone, Wyo.
Mrs. Grace Cowley's child.
Missing After the Adobe Wreck. .
will be the only epitaph of the other
victims.
The police of Denver have been ask
ed by the sheriff OF Fremont county to
lGcate Frank Lively, the Denver & Rio
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