Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-15
Baggage Car and Smoker TelescOped
and Engines Ditched.
SEVERAL INJURED WILL DIE
Passengers Thrown Into Screaming
Masses on Floors of Cars.
NoRTHBoUND CREW IS BLAMED
IL Had Orders 20 wait for other
Train at Hustled, but MistOok
Switch Engine for Pas-
senEer Train.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Aug. IA
Nine persons are dead and others are eX-
pected to die between between forty and
fifty are injured; three engines are In
the ditch two baggage cars, including
the contents, are smashed to kindling
wood and several passenger coaches are
badly damaged as the result OF a head-on
collision between eastbouud passenger
train No. and westbound passenger
No / on the Denver & Rio Grands near
Hustled, thirteen miles north of this city,
at 1925 a. m today. The wreck was due
to a Misunderstanding of orders it is
said:
A revised list of dead follows:
JAMES ROSEPORKA, Chicago.
c. M LARKIN, Colorado Springs.
c. S. BROWN, Jericho Springs, No.
J. A. GOSSAGE fireman on engine No.
s, Colorado Springs.
t. E. MURPHY, travelling car agent,
A. A. DAWSON, Mcpherson, Kan.
ATTORNEY OFF G. FREDERICK, St
F W. BELEss. Colorado Springs.
JAMES J. PARKER, Chicago.
List of Injured.
The injured:
Andrew. Jacobson, Oldham, s. D.; inter
nal injuries.
EiHleI JohlsCn' NHBLla L aus Ail' ios
], l. Frank. Mcpherson. KAN leg and
r J. sedlacik, St. Louis, Mo-; head cut
Mrs, +. N. Randolph, okmulgee, okl.; in
Fay steck, Kansas City, Mo; slightly
injured
John w Roberts, Cambria, Mo-; head
4. c. Whitsidd, JerricO Springs, Mo-.
back injured. - ,
Chicago H.; ribs and leg broken.
j. w. Leafgren, Axtell, Neb.; legs cut
o. c. skinner, Topeka, Kan; ribs broken
E c. Tannehill, Des Moines. Ia; arm
john Reinhart, Carson. Ia. leg broken.
e St. FTsneis' eE u hospital Us WITH SD his Chest
crushed; in a dying condition.
Mrs. D. K. ssaton, Harrisburg; m;
from a broken back. Her death is ex-
An engineer was dead heading his way
to Denver riding in the lead engine Of
the double-header. portion of a body
is reported to have been found late to-
night at the scene Of the wreck, but this
is not confirmed.
Crew Makes Mistake.
| As No. drew into Hustled at about forty
miles an hour the crew OF the engine saw
a light engine standing on the switch north
! o the station.
Mistaking the engine for the second SEQ
tion OF No. /, the crew did not stop, and
went through the station as fast as the
two engines could draw the thirteen heav-
| fly laden coaches. As soon as the train
got out of the station the engineer OF the
first engine Of No. saw another train
coming slowly down the incline.
He slammed on the air brakes and the
emergency brakes and then shouted to the
other members of the two crews TO jump.
Before they had time to jump No. had
rammed No. l so hard that all three en-
gines lay in the ditch
| Fireman ]. A, Gossage OF train No. 8
was killed as he was firing his engine
and never knew what struck him. The
members Of the other crew escaped serious
injuries by jumping. The engineer on the
first engine of No. is reported to have
been working extra, and since the wreck
has been acting like a mAdman. He had
to be held by friends
Dead All I'm smoker.
Smoker No. 572, attached TO train No. s.
/ was the car in which the people were
killed. All those badly injured were in the
same car. There is not enough left OF the
car. beyond the frame to tell that It was
formerly a smoking car. The baggage
cars on both trains and the smokers and
the next cars were all wrecked. The three
engines in the witch are total wrecks. A
relief train bearing physicians, surgeons
and nurses was hurried to the rescue from
this city; a wreeking crew was sent W
from Pueblo. The dead and injured were
brouG sfeto this city on the special and
No. l. IT, two arriving shortly afternoon
Hero. work in helping the injured was
done va party Of women tourists, under
the direction Of II. A. Cameron OF Boston
Mass, and c. r Dow OF Boston. The
members OF the party turned over to the
injured two Pullmans they were occupy
ing Within few minutes OF the collision
the two cars had been turned into a hos
pItal and bandages were put on the in
ljured.