The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-17
81 KNOWN To Be
SERIOUSLY HURT
Passenger Train From Salt
Lake COllides Head On Near
Pueblo, Colo.
WRECK CATCHES FIRE AND
PEOPLE ROASTED ALIVE
Horrible Catastrophe Said to Be
Due to Telegraph Opera
tors Neglect.

PUEBLO March l6-sixteen nars
are known TO have been killed and th.t~
oodies lie In the ruins of two possones,..
trains on the Denver g. Rio Grorao .en
road which were wrecked by A bead-oo
' a' @.io o CLOCK this morning, al a
point between Portland and Adobe sho,,,
twenty-five miles west of Pueblo IT,
wreck caught fire and many bodies war
burned "eie
fi1teen persons severely iniurod ,n o.,
plsaster are lying on cofs In st ,t .nc
uospitaI In this city, with tho nroSns,t
sn 5nat some Of them VIII be added ~ tba
The total number OF lnrrcd Go r,o,
at thlrty-four '"''u IL paced
The Known Dead.
sheriff DehFer deputy
o5at ARClilBALD WHITNEY. Baird's pris-
PATRICK MURPHY, Florencc
hahr h1a' "a r. HEWITT Lebo, Kan. and
W: L. HEWITT. Lebo. Kan
MRS. w. L. HEWITT. I,ebo Kan
uan.,t, uDA,uGHrER OF Mr.. and Mrs W. L.
THOMAS BRANNAN. Leaaviue Colo
WILLIAM HOLLIS, engineer ~ No ie
NJ HUGH g sUDDURrH, Pueblo fireman on on
,na.s.ri AZ h fARLANDs Globe Express
WALTER CAUSLETT. enginac, ., Ore,
engine on No. 3 A'' o.
g; BLOCK, Pueblo, wife and three
The Injured.
IA WEBB, Yampa. Colo, slight.
BERT MEYERS. PottsyiiIe Mo sl,sb,
w, i. HEWITT. Echo, Kan siighf
CLAUDE ROBINSON, Denver. serlous
~, l. G0LDBERG, Denver. slight
w X PAGE. Yampa. Colo, serious
RALPH BRlTTON, Brighton. Ia, sert-
MABEL FIELDS wolcott. Colo. seri-
ARTHUR E. HEWITT. Lebo Kan.
y. W. PHILLIPS. coyvIne. Ill. slight
{. 6 HousE' GShama, N, NJ, slight
!. PI5 PEKSAN0, SGST1,, Florence, Colo. slight
ED BRANAN. LeadvIile, slight.
JOHN SCOTT Denver, arms and leg
RALPH BONITON, Brighton. la,
L; {, RANsCOTTOM. San Francisco,
DAVE M'cULLAM. Chicago. porter In
SARAH GALLIGAN, Cleveland. O.. cut
on head
MYRoN PHILLIPS, Salt Lake. ankle
W, F, PAUL. Portland Or. foot.
THOMAS WEBB, Chama, n. NJ
CLAUDE ROBINSON, Denver. leg.
GEORGE BRADSHAW. Chicago. left
foot smashed
S. w. FIELDS, Laramie, Wyo. left leg
broken
PHILIP PETERS. address unknown.
ribs broken and cut about head
JAMES TROCIONE, Florence. right leg
laceratcd
r. l. JONES. mail weigher, Denver
chest and head injured.
\. E. SMITH fireman Pueblo slight
w a WATKINS. Denver, cut on head
Bodies Burned in Wreck.
For two hours and a half half nude
men, thrown from their berths by the
impact of the two trains rushing to-
gether fraEtic9lly tore at burning tim
bers, endeavoring vainly 10 eXtricate
people from an awful fate.
When relief tain arrived from
Pueblo, there was little left in the cars
hat were burned to indicate that there
had been a precious freightage or hu-
man lives, excepting piles of scorched
lesk and moldering bones.
Many People on Board.
passengcc train No. 8. the Utah and
California express. which started from
Denver at S O'Clock last evening, left
his city soon after midnight heavily
oaded with passengers and pulled by
engines 529 and 120. The forward coach
II the hapless train was well nlled in
act II was difficult 10 find seat any
where. and a number of passengers
we're standing In the aisles.
Hits a High Speed.
Just as this train was rounding
harp curve between Beaver and
,dobe train No, 16 eastbound ard
unning at a high rate of speed. whirled
round the curve and crashed into the
leavy train which was climbing the
harp grade
In an instant all was confusion. Pas
engers were hurled from their seats
nd covered with splnters of wood and
lying glass.
Many were killed In the awful inn
act, and the others caught beneath
he wreckage. filled the air with their
ries for assistance.
Explosion Of Gas
a moment later the gas with which
he train was lighted exploded and In
II instant the wreckagc was blazing
erccly.
One man in the coach of No. had
To raise a window and forced
imself half way 10 freedom when he
ecame lodged I'm the window. He
ought flercely for life. but each move