The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-03-22

s~h SAJ ~ ~ W. 1921
Joined his brother. also an operator, at
e%astbound train. A subpoena had been
Issued for Frank Lively to appear at
the %coroner's inquest today.
Pueblo, Colo, March 19.--Twenty-
two dead and twenty-five injured Is
the best estimate Of the casualties In
the wreck of the two Denver and Rio
Grande passenger trains which col
lided on a curve at a point twenty-five
miles west of this city early Friday
morning. Only seven Of the dead bod
ies car be identified, M only one OF
these retains sufficient OF the outline
Of the features to be readily recognize
able. The remainder are known from
the fact that the location where the
charred bones were found We're the
places where they would naturally have
been when the collision happened.
Operators Held Responsible:
Two telegraph operators are held In
the public mind to be responsible for
the awful disaster, although no formal
Indictment has zone out against them.
Both have been ordered discharged
from the service Of the road. A coro-
ner's jury has been impaneled and will
begin investigation OF the cause of the
accident today at Canon City.
In addition to this the railroad COM
pany has directed it's officials to locate
the blame through an examination Of
trainmen and operators who will be
asked to gather together In the future
and tell what they know of h deplor-
able affair.
r. C. Whitney, who was being taken
to the penitentiary by Deputy Sheriff
Ed E. Baird, had been chained to
Lic -o.9 - ,,J ,,tIo, tLa f-n h,.p1yaZ ont
In the wreckage he had no chance
whatever to escape. By the irony Of
fate his guard persisted with him.. The
Colorado laws have a provision making
1t q crime to fasten prisoners to car
seats In transportation.
Mrs. William Burnside n her
daughter and grandchild. said to be
from some Kansas town, were erron-
eously included in the death list last
night.
All the injured, it is believed, will
recover. 1t is not likely that the re-
mains of any of the other victims can
be identified.
~ Was Asleep, That's All"
E. T. Lively, the operator whose
failure to deliver the train order
resulted in the. collision, said: IT was
asleep; that's ALL" 1t is asserted that
Lively had worked for several days
without sleep.
1t developed that Lively. who was the
regular day operator at Swallows, had
besides performing his own duties
worked on Thursday night for William
Vandeusen, the night operator. Van
deusen is said to have absented him.
self from the station or Thursday
night without getting the approva! Of
bis superiors-
General Managers Report.
J New York, March 20.-President Jeffrey
Of the Denver and Rio Grande, received
the following official statement from A.
). RidgeWay, general ana Of the COM
Qany:
DR.. O'Connor, our chief surgeon reports
10 me eighteen bodies being recovered
from the wreck. He thinks there Is a pos
sibillty of a number of fatalities which
will reach twenty. Six were injured serl-
ously. Other injuries slight. All Of the in
tured viii get well. No. 3. leaving Pueblo.
had orders to met No. 16 at Adobe. Dis
patcher had 20 x from Florence and
Swallows, operator at Swallows stating
that No. 3 had not zone by. He had been
asleep beyond question: did not hear No.
B go by and 20 K'd' uispatchers' order
and is the sole cause of the collision. This
was the day operator and he was doing
auty for the night man, as night man had
gone to Pueblo to cash pay checks without
asking permission from Pueblo office. Our
standing rule Is that day operators are not
TO relieve night operators and work over
time unless permission is asked and grant
I'd by chief dispatcher.
The Death List.
So far as identification OF the dead
has progressed, the following have
been recognized:
PATRICK MURPHY, Florence, Colo.
RAY FIELDS, a boy, keystone, Wyo.
MRS. BELLE WEBB. keystone,
Wyo.
WILLIAM HOLLIS. engineer No. 16
Pueblo.
WALTER CossLETT. engineer, No
8. Pueblo.
H. D. SUDDUTH, fireman, No. It,
Pueblo.
EDWARD f. BAIRD, deputy sheriff
Denver, Colo.
ARCHIBALD WHITNEY, prisoner
Oh way to penitentiary at Canyon City
in charge of Baird, Denver
A. N. BARLOW, Salida, Colo.
! MISS GRACE BARLOW. Salida
Colo.
ENAS MPARLAND, express messen
ger, ave
TAYLOR HEWITT, Lebo, Kans.
4! MRS. LILLIAN HEWITT, Lebo
Eans.
PEARL HEWITT. aged Is. Lebo
Kans.
MRS. CATHERINE HEWITT AM
BABY BOY, Lebo, Kans.
ED CROWLEY. Lebo, Kals.
FRED JONES, Lebo. kans.
FRED LIGMEcOOLEY. Denver.
MRS. ED CROWLEY, Lebo, kans.
MRS. WINONA HEWITT, Lebo
Knns.
All the injured will, it is believed, re
rover. 1t is not likely the remains o
Any of the victims can be identified