The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-01-22
20 ARE KILLED IN
D. &. R. G.. WRECK
SURVIVORS USED SNOW TO PUT
OUT FIRE IN COLORADO
WRECK.
MOTHERS BODY SHIELDS GIRL
Every Person In Day Coach Killed
Excepting Alice Williams, Four
Years oId-Eneineer
Misread Time.

Glenwood, Springs, Colo.-Twenty
are known dead and ut least 80
injured is the latest estimate of the
casualties in the collision Friday night
at Dotzero between a w%estbound Dem
yer &c Rio Grande passenger train and
an eastbound freight.
1t is believed here that when all the
so persons have lost their lives. Thirty
bodies are supposed to be still buried
under the wreckage.
List of injured:
John Ross, laborer; Cleveland.
Thomas Elliott, Pendleton, la.
w. A. Adair, Ravenna. o.
T. b. Miller, Denver.
Mrs. G. Blanke. Napoleon, Mo.
Avoius Delupo, laborer; no address.
w. M. Barber, Anthony, Kas.
Hugh Gregg, and family, Harris
burg, Ill.
Charles p. Mano and wife.
j. H. Hayden and child, Buffalo,
Okla.
Fred Jensen, Iowa Falls, Ia.
Mrs. Nellie j. Morton, Standish, Cal.
j. B. Thompson, Brookings, S. d.
F. Chandler, Denver.
D.. F. Cannon, Twin Falls, la.
Mrs. A. w. McCauley and child,
Winnemucca, New.
w. c. Maxey, Los Angeles.
MCGOWAN, Pullman conductor, Den
yer.
Clarence Vassan, Middlesbury, VT.
At the headquarters of the Denver
& Rio Grande railway in Denver, the
positive statement is made that not
more than 25 persons, all of whom
were in the chair car, were killed, and
that the list of injured, many of whom
are only slightly hurt, will not exceed
35.
Misread Watch.
It is also stated at the railroad
headquarters that the wreck was
caused by Engineer Gus Olson of the
passenger train, who misread his
watch at 9:45 Friday night by ten
minutes. 1t was Their really 9:55 and
Olson, believing he had time to make
the next siding west of Dotzero, pulled
the throttle wide open and started for
it at As miles an hour.
AS the train few by Dotzero Con-
ductor Edward McCurdy pulled the
bell cord to remind Olson that he
should stop. at that place, but it was
then too late. The train was under
full steam and on a down grade, and
Olson paid no attention to the con
ductor's warning.
In another moment he struck a
sharp curve, and, as the passenger
flew around it, crashed into the freight
which was laboriously Ginning the
grade.
Engine Crews Jumped.
The crew of the engines had bare
ly time to jump to ave their lives.
The engines came together with a
frightful impact and telescoped each
other until the three boilers looked
like n huge elongated tube Of steel.
The combination baggage and ex-
press car and the smoker and the day
coach were crushed like egg shells.
Every person in the day coach was
killed except Alice Williams, aged 4
years, from some point in Iowa, whose
~blood-covered body was found under
the crushed and mutilated remains Of
her mother. Eight passengers were de.
capitated as though by a guillotine.
The bodies were scattered, as were
the heads, and as yet have not been
identified.
All In Chair Car Hurt.
1t is believed that not a single per
son in the chair car escaped death
or injury.
Immediately after the crash the
wreckage took fire and the surviving
passengers were marshaled by the
cooler heads to fight the flames. Snow,
which lined the tracks, was brought
into service, and In this way the fire
was quickly extinguished.
Among the known dead is Gus Olson
of Salida, engineer of the passenger
train, while Sigmund Olson, engineer
of the first engine of the freight, and
j. T. Jeffrey, engineer of the second
engine, are known to be seriously in
jured.
Word vas received here that two
more relief trains. bearing between 25
and 35 injured, are on the way. One
of the injured is said to have died