Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-20
REMAINS OF MANY VICTIMS OF
COLORADO WRECK ARE TN.
RECOGNIZABLE
OPERATOR is BLAMED
e. L. Lively, in Charge Of Station at
Adobe, Falls Asleep at His Key and
Allows Inflated Train to Pass With
out Warning of Impending Danger.

Pueblo, Col, March 17.-E. L.
Lively, the operator whose failure
to deliver the train order that re-
suited in. the collision, has not
been arrested and it Is considered
probable that no action against
him will be taken until after the
coroner's inquest.
Lively, who Is 25 years Of age,
has been working for the railway
company several months. He be-
gan work at Adobe ten days ago.
He had worked Tuesday, Wednes-
day, Thursday and Thursday
night. Lively had orders for No.
3, but went to sleep. Another
dispatcher called him up and
asked If No had gone by. Lively
said mo" Then No. Is came
along. Lively gave the orders to
the engineer Of No. Is, who said,
"These are No. 3's orders" Lively
Immediately notified the dispatch
er of his failure to deliver No. 3's
orders.
Lively says: ri was dead for
rest; l went to sleep and did not
give No. it's orders. l am re.
sponsible for the wreck. l will
not run away"
1t reveloped today that Lively,
who was the regular day operator
at Swallows, had besides perform
ing his own duties, worked on
Thursday night for William Van
Deusen, the night operator. Van
Deusen is said to have absented
himself from the station Thursday
night without getting the approval
of his superiors. Both men we're
discharged by the railway officials
today.
Pueblo, Colo, March 17.-Whi1e the
exact number Of lives lost in the
Adobe wreck near Florence yesterday
on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will never be known, conservative
statements place the number of dead
at thirty-six Sixteen charred, man
gled and utterly unrecognizable bodies
lie in the Pueblo morgue, and five 9th
err persons are known to be dead and
possibly score of bodies were burned
to ashes.
Bodies Burned to Ashes.
There was not a single entire body
recovered from the wreckage with the
exception of those of the enginemer
which, although they were horribly
mangled, had not been reached by the
flames that swept throughout the
wrecked cars.
The Dead.
CT nf iInytifn1
HOLLIS, WILLIAM, engineer No. 16
Pueblo.
CossLETT, WALTER, engineer No
8, Pueblo.
| SUDDUTH, H. D., fireman No. 16
Pueblo.
BAIRD, EDWARD E., deputy sheriff
Denver. ~
WHITNEY, ARCHIBALD, prisone
on way to penitentiary at Canon City
in charge Of Baird, Denver.
BARKLO, A. NJ, Salida, Col.
BARKLO, MISS GRACE, Salida
Col.
MPARTLAND, ENAs, express mes
senger, Denver.
HEWITT, TAYLOR, Lebo, Kan.
HEWITT, MRS LILLIAN, Lebc
Kan.
HEWITT, PEARL, Is years old, LIZ
DO, Kan.
HEWITT, MRS. CATHERINE, an
BABY BOY, Lebo, Kan.
COWLEY, ED, Lebo, Kan.
i JONES, FRED, Lebo, Kan.
LEMECOOLEY, FRED, Denver.
4 COWLEY, MRS. ED, Lebo, Kan.
HEWITT, MRS. WINONA, Lebt
Kan.
FIELDS, RAY, boy, Keystone
Wyo.
WEBB. MRS. BELLE, Keyston,
Wyo.
The Injured.
i Murphy, Patrick, Florence, Col; 81
rious.
/ Peters, P, Baggageman, Denver
ribs broken, head cut.
Proconone, James, travelling to Flo
ence, Col, from Italy; head cut an
otherwise injured.
J. Elrod, Ira, Gypsum, Col, foe
sprained
Fields, Miss Mabel, address not gi,
en-; travelling to Wolcott, Col; int
nal injuries, serious.
Hewitt, E. A., Lebo, Kan, one lie
| UlOhSu dIu OluSlW1oe luJuTeu.
!, Gooch, Miss Mary, Oakland, Ca,
suffering from shock.
Webb, Thomas, Yampa, Col, rigt
, foot sprained.
i Phillips, R. W., Caysville, Utah, foo
, bruised
House, G. G., Champa, N. NJ, bot
kneecaps broken, right hand an
mouth cut.
Ramsbottom, L. c., San Francisco
neck hurt.
Page, w. R., Yampa, Col, back i,
jured.
Kissel, l., New York, head slight
injured.
Gerber, A., New York, ear torn. !.
c. NJ Wright, New York, head Sigh
ly injured.
Page, James, Whitewater, Col, hea
cut.
Sweeney, F. H., Clinton, Mo-, hi
lcrushed