The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-15

Colorado Springs, Aug. 14.-Nine per-
sons are dead and others are expected TO
die. between forty and fifty are injured;
three engines are in the ditch, two bag
gage cars. including the contents. are
smashed, and several passenger coaches
are badly damaged as the result Of a
head-on collision between eastbound
4 passenger train No. s and westbOund
passenger No. l on the Denver * Rio
Grande, near Hustled. thirteen miles
north Of this city. at I0:25 a. m. today.
The wreck was due to a misunderstood
ing of orders.
The Dead.
James Rpseporka, Chicago.
c. NJ. Larkin. Colorado Springs.
G. S. Brown, Jericho Springs, Mo.
J. A. GOssage, fireman on lead engine
No. s. Colorado Springs.
T. e. Murphy. travelling car agent
Denver.
A. Dawson. Mcpherson, Kan.
Attorney f. G. Frederick, St. Louis.
T. W. Beless, Colorado Springs.
James J. Harker, Chicago.
An engineer who was deadheading his
way to Denver. riding in the leading en-
CINE. a portion of a body is reported
to have been found late tonight at the
scene Of the wreck.
The Injured.
F. Baker, Portland, Ore, internally
injured
Earl Kemper. Denver. cut arm and
legs.
Andrew Jacobson, Oldham. S. D.. in
ternal injuries.
Peter Fratrichon, Colorado Springs,
head cut, internal injuries.
Elmer Jokisch, Virginia Falls, Ills,
leg broken.
John Wendstrom, Victor, Colo, face
cut and legs broken.
J. I. Frank, Mcpherson, Kan, leg and
head cut.
J. F. sedlace. St. Louis, head cut and
legs broken.
B. L. Shaver, express messenger No.
s. Denver, slightly hurt
Mrs. T. 81. Randolph, Okmulgee,
Okla, internal injuries.
". r. Sacks, Denver, arm broken.
Charles Campbell, legs broken.
Fay Steek, Kansas City, slightly in
jured
W. W. Taylor, bridge builder D. & R.
G., Pueblo, leg broken.
John ". Roberts, New Cambridge,
No, head badly cut and legs broken.
G. E. Whitside, Jericho Springs, No,
back and chest injured.
Henry Shipman, 1872 Kimball avenue.
Chicago, broken ribs and legs.
Stephen Makeson. Pueblo. inspector,
slightly injured.
J. w. Leagren, Axtell, Neb. mail car
rier, body bruised and legs cut.
0. G. Skinner, Topeka, ribs broken.
E C. Tannehill Des Moines, head
battered and left arm broken.
John Reihart. Carson. 10, legs broken,
face cut.
Peter Nelson of Monroe, Neb.. taken
to the St. Francis hospital with his
chest crushed. in a dying condition.
Mrs. D. K. SeatOn, Harrisburg, H.
taken to the Arcacia hotel, suffering
from a broken back. Her death is ex-
pected.
Mistake In Orders.
AS No. drew into Hustled at about
forty miles an hour, the crew of the en-
CINE saw a light engine standing on the
switch north of the station. Mistaking
the engine for the second section of No.
1, the crew did not stop and went
through the station as fast as the two
engines could draw the heavily-laden
coaches. As soon as the train got out Of
the station the engineer Of the first en-
CINE of No. saw another train coming
slowly down the incline.
He slammed on the airbrakes and the
emergency brakes and then shouted tc
tne OlueT uleIlDeIS OL the Two crews IC
jump. Before they had time to jump
No. 8 had rammed No 1 so hard that
all three engines lay in the ditch. Fire
man ]. A. Gossage of No. s was killed
as he was firing his engine and never
knew what struck him.
The members Of the other crew es-
capped serious injuries by jumping. The
engineer on the first engine Of No S is !
said to have been working as an extra
and since the wreck has been acting