Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-16


will never be identified. having been
burned to II crisp. Part OF the mail
was destroyed and all of the express
matter. Relief trains were at once
dispatched to the scene from Pueblo
and Florence, but the work necessarily
was slow. because 0f the smoke from
the burning wreck and the cold wealth
err. The recovered bodies and identi-
fed dead:
William Hol1is, engineer No. 1s.
r.. NJ Mcfarland, Globe express
messenger No. 16.
Walter Causlet. engineer OF No. 8.
Pueblo
Hugh Suddith, fireman.
Sleepers Saved.
Number 3 was composed Of mail
car. express ear. two day coaches. two
tourist and two sleepers. All the sleep
ers were saved, and none OF the occu-
pants were injured.
Engines Demolished.
An three engines were practically
demolished and piled In a heap With
in few minutes after the collision
the wreckage was "a mass OF flames
The first three cars ,,f No. 3 were oiled
UP, but before the wreckage took fire
majority OF the passengers were re-
moved. So far as known Express Mes
senger Mcfarland was the only one
caught In the wreckige. According 20
a statement of a passenger in the
front coach OF No. \, there were only
eight or ten vacant seats in the car.
When the trains came together they
were rounding sharp curve, AROUND
high bluff. 1t was impossible for the
engineers Of either train to see
the other train until the trains were
within two hundred yards of each
other. At this point the Santa Fe and
Denver & Rio lirande tracks run close
together and 1t was easy for the en-
gineers to suppose the onconing train
N.
According to the frst orders, the
trains were supposed to meet at Adobe,
half q mile from the scene OF the
wreck. At Florence No. 16 received
orders to meet No. 3 at Beaver. five
miles east of Portland. It Is supposed
No. 8 was given similar orders ut
Swallows but failing to receive them,
ran on to Adobe.
The injured:
I. H. Webb, Yampa, Col.
Bert Meyers. Pottsville, Mo.
w. L. Hewitt, Lebo, Kansas.
Claude Robinson, Denver.
H Goldberg. Denver.
w. r. Page, Yampa, Col.
Ralph Brinton Brighton, Iowa.
Mabel Fields, Wolcott, Col.
Arthur E. Hewitt, Lebo, Kansas.
N. w. Phillips, Coyville, Kansas.
C. G. House, Chama, N. M.
j. Percano, Florence, Col.
Jack Scott, Montrse, Colo.
Ed. Brannen, Leadville.
John Scott, Denver
A. CARRIER, New York.
L. c. Ranscottom, San Francisco.
Dave McCullam, Chicago, porter.
Sarah Galligan. Cleveland, Ohio.
Myron Phillips, Salt Lake City.
w. f. Paul. Portland. Ore.
Thomas Webb, Chama, N M.
Claude Robinson, Denver.
charred Bodies Number Forty.
This afternoon there were about
forty charred bodies lying in the
wreck at the scene Of the disaster and
at the hospital in this city there were
fifteen severely injured persons, some
Of whom will probably die. But two
passengers are known to have escaped
from the smoker on No. 3, every seat
Of which was occupied, and there We're
several persons standing, in the aisle.
When the first relief train arrived there
was but little in the burned cars to in
dicate that there had been precious
freightase of human lives, excepting
piles of scorched flesh and smouldering
bones. For nearly two and half
hours after the accident occurred half
nude men frantically tore at the burn
ing timbers OF the smashed coaches,
endeavoring vainly to eNtricate
manned and dying people from an aw-
ful fate. The heat, however, drove