The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-03-16

went to the engineers side and saw
him at the emergency brake Grant
Kelker. engineer of Second Engine
No. 3 and Harry Hartman his fire
man, both noticed the headlight of
No 16 as it rounded the curve Kelk
er yelled 'look OUT and applied the
emergency brakes.
Both escaped by jumping. Engineer
Kelker stated he barely escaped him
self, when the whole train seemed
afire Train No 3 was composed of
mail car, express car, two day
coaches, two tourist and two stand
ard sleepers. All the sleepers were
saved, none of the occupants being in
jured. All three of the> engines were
practically demolished and piled on
top of each other The first three
cars of No. 16 were piled on top of
each other but before the wreckage
took fire most of the passengers were
removed
According to statement of pas
senger in %he front coach of No )
there were only eight or ten. vacant
seats. Two men J. L. LawtOn, Bell
flower Mo, and S. H. Sweeney of Tren
ton, NO. escaped with slight inju-
ries. Sweeney and Lawton were pul.
led from a mass of wreckage just be-
fore the fire reached them. The
place where the trains come togeth-
er was near mile post 147. The trains
high bluff it being impossible for
the engine men. to see the other train
until within about 200 yards of each
other-
At this point the Santa Fe and Rio
Grande tracks run close together and
pose the on coming train to be on
the Santa Fe track.
Snow began falling at midnight,
and severe cold added to the suffer
ings of the victims. According to the
first orders the trains were supposed
from the scene of the wreck. At
Florence Is received orders to meet
No. 3 at Beaver, five miles east of
Portland, and it is supposed No. 3 was
TO have been given similar orders at
Swallows but failing to receive these,
ran on to Adobe.
The injured are: T. H. Webb, Yam
pa, Colo; Bert Myers, Pottsville, Mo-,
slight; W. L. Hewitt, Lebo, Kansas,
slight; Claude Robinson, Denver. SER
ious; E Goldberg, slight; w. R. Page,
Yampa, seriously; Ralph Brighton, la.
seriously; Mabel Fields, Wolcott, Col.
serious: Arthur E. Hewitt. Lebo, Kan.
serious; N. w. Phillips. Codyville, Ill.
slight; G. G. House, Chama, n. NJ,
slight; J. Percano, Florence, slight;
Jack Scott, Montrose, slight; Ed Bran
non, Leadville, slight. One of the pc
crlliar features was that of the Hew-
lit family. Out of a family of eleven
only two escaped. Others were burn
ed to a crisp. During the progress of
of the fire one man was seen hanging
from a car window "for Gods Sake
save - he cried. but the heat was
too intense for the rescuers to reach
him and he slowly roasted to death
before the crowd around the burn
ing wreck.
John Scott, Denver cut arm and leg
A. CARRIER. New York, Ear; Ralph Bo-
niton, Brighton Ia, injured neck; L.
c. Ranscsttom, San Francisco, neck;
Dave McCullum, Chicago, porter, in
hailed gas; Sarah Gallihan, of C1eve-
land cut head; Myron Phillips, Salt
Lake, Ankle hurt; W. F. Paul, Port
land, foot; Tom Webb. Chama, N. M.
foot: Claude Robinson, Denver, leg.
Later Wreck Reports.
Denver. March 16.-The local of
fees of the Rio. Grande state that ear
ly reports of the wreck are exaggerat-
ed. They claim that only sixteen peo-
pie were killed, none in Pullmans and
that none of the injured are fatally
hurt
The killed were in the smoker on
Number 3