Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-17
PROVED A HOLOCAUST
Further Details of the Wreck
on D. and R. G. Road
IN COLORADO YESTERDAY
Not a Single Entire Body Found in
Wreckage.
BONES AND BITS OF FLESH
Exact Loss of Life Will Never Be
Known, but It is Estimated
Thirty-Six Perished.
BONES AND BITS OF FLESH

PUEBLO, COL March 1T.-While the eX-
net number of lives lost in the Adobe
wreck on the Denver and Rio Grande rail-
road will never be known, it undoubtedly
will take rank among the great disasters
In the history of railroading.
Conservative estimates on the loss of life
place the number OF dead at SO. Seventeen
charred mangled and unrecognizabe bodies
lie in the Pueblo morgue; five are in the
morgue at Florence, and several other per-
sons are known TO be dead. and possibly
a score of bodies were burned to ashes.
There was not a single entire body re-
covered from the wreckage, with the eN-
ception Of the engineman. who although
maugled had not been reached by the
flames that swept through the wrecked
cars. Bits of charred flesh and piles or
bcnes were all that indicated that holo-
caUst had occurred, but trained eyes picked
out the pelvic bones. and from these it was
seer that. so far as the search had pro-
greSsed. no less than thirty-siX people had
persisted.
The Additional Dead.
The following names have been added 20
the list of known dead: Mrs. Grace Crow
loy's baby. Emporia. Kan; Ray Fields,
aged ten, Keystone Wyo.. and Mrs. Belle
Webb keystone, Wyo.
Murphy yesterday was reported among the
seriously injul<d. He had dragged two
passengers out of burning car. When he
returned 10 rescue third a gas explosion
occurred and he was burned to death.
Mrs. William Burnside. her daughter and
grandchild. said to be from Kansas, were
enormously included in the death list last
right.
All the Injured. it is believed will recover.
1t is not likely that the remains of any OF
tie victims can be identified.
r. J.. Lively, the operator whose failure
to deliver the train order that resulted in
the collision has not been arrested, and II
Is considered probable that no action against
him will be taken until after the coroners s
inquest. Lively says OF his failure to deliver
the train order:
Il was asleep; that's all"
II IS asserted that Lively mad worked FOR
several days without sleep.
Confession Denied.
When advised OF the report that the night
operator at Swallows, s. +. Lively, had
made a confession i'm which he acknowl-
edged his responsibility for the collision of
the two passenger trains on the Denver and
Rio Graude railroad near Florence early
yesterday morning, which resulted in dis
astrous wreck. and that Lively claimed to
have been in condition of stupor at the
time, owing to a long watch at his post,
local officials of the Denver and Rio crande
denied positively last night having any
knowledge Of such confession
1t was stated, however that the operator
had assumed longer shift on the night Of
the wreck than was usually required of
him. but this. il was understood was for
reasons only known TO himself
The injured are improving rapidly that
most Of them viii be able to leave the hos
pital in "a few days.
The wreck is being cleared away and
trains viii lie running on schedule time to-
night.
y Corouer's jury will meet at Canon CITY
on Monday next to fix the responsibility for
the collision.