The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-01-19
MANY DEAD AND HURT
IN COLORADO WRECK
Denver & Rio Graude Train
Crashes Into a Freight.
ENGINEER MlsREADs HIS WATCH
Only Twelve Of the Victims Are
Known-Unidentiied Deed Are
Women and Children Badly
MangIed--None in sleepers Hur

Glenwood Springs, Col-Twenty-
one persons were killed and forty in
jured, many of them seriously, in a
head-on collision between a west
bound passenger train and an east
bound freight train on the Denver
and Rio Grande Railroad, between
Dotsero and Spruce Creek, twenty
two miles from Glenwood Springs, at
9.S6 o'clock at night. Followingiis a
revised list of the dead and descrip-
lions that may assist in the Identified,
ton of the unidentified dead.
The identified dead were: J. D
Mahon, Princeton. Ind.5 A. A. Ham.
ilton, Polo, ILL.,; W. G. Kettle, Ashton
Neb.; Mrs. Matte Kettle, Ashton
Neb.; Mrs Matte Eze1l, Williston, NJ
D.; G. W. Oleson, St. Louis, Mo-; DR..
Arville A. Oleson, either from Hill
dreth, Neb., or Axtell. Neb; the Rev.
r. L. Meiley, either from Brooklyn
N. Y, or Mechanicsburg, Pa; Clar-
ence A. Gooding, Washington; Joh1
Williams, Clarks, Neb.; John Will
Jams, Des Moines, Iowa; J. G. Davis,
of Davis Brigham Drug Co., Denver;
Henry Dunn, ST. Louis, Mo.
The unidentified dead were:
Twelve-year-old boy; eight-year-old
girl, wearing plain ring on third fin
ger left hand; ten-year1old boy, light
hair; six-year-old girl, light hair and
eyes; woman, full face, brown hair,
about thirty years old, wore blue
plaid petticoat and Catholic brooch;
woman, no description, badly mutilat-
ed; woman, black hair, dark com
plexion, plain gold ring inscribed
Nancy shoes stamped fSelby Shoe
Company, Portsmouth, Ohio" wom-
an, with red sweater, blue and white
striped waist, about forty-five years
of age, weight about ITO pounds.
All the unidentified are women OF
children, and their bodies are badly
mangled.
While nothing official has been
given out as to the cause of the
wreck, it is said to have been due tic
misunderstanding of orders on the
part of the engineer, Gustaf Olson,
of the passenger train. Olson, how
ever, asserts he understood his in.
structions perfectly, but that he mis-
read his watch, thus encroaching on
the time of the freight train, which
was being drawn by two locomotives,
the first of which was in charge of
his brother, Sig. Olson
When the news of the catastrophe
reached Glenwood Springs every
available physician and nurse in the
city was pressed into service and a
relief train was made up
A pathetic feature of the accident
was the killing of a father, leaving
two small children, the eldest being
four years old, the youngest two. The
elder boy told a nurse at the santa
rum that his father called him Ben.
ME, and this is all he will say. From
a.. fellow passenger it was learned
that the family was en- route to Grand
Junction to visit relatives 1t is sup
posed that Mr.. and Mrs. Kettle, whose
names appear among the dead, were
the parents of these two little ones
who are badly injured.
None of the sleepers left the track
and none was killed or injured in
these cars, most of the dead and in.
jured being removed from the ruins
of the chair car, which was complete.
ly split in twain.