Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-19
TWENTY ARE DASHED
TO GRUESOME DEATH
RUSHING AT A TERRIFIC SPEED
LIMITED PASSENGER TRAIN
PLUNGEs HEAD-oN INTO DOU-
BLE.HEADER FREIGHT.

GLENWOOD SPRINS, Cole. Jan. a.
Twenty persons were killed and thirty
injured, many OF rnem. seriously, in
head-on collision between westbound pas
senger- train No. and an eastbound
freight train on the Denver and Rio
Grande railroad, between Dotsero and
Spruce Creek, 2 miles from Glenwood
Springs, at 1886 o'clock last night.
The identified dead:
I'D. 'MAHON, Princeton, Ind.
A. A: HAMILTON, Polo, III. ;
w. c. KETTLE. Ashton. Neb.
MRS. MATTE KETTLE, Ashton, Nep.
MRS. MATTE EzELL, Williston, N. d.
q. w. OLEs0N, st. Louis.
DIR ARVILLA A. OLSON, either from
Hildreth, Neb., or Axteli Neb.
REV R. L. MEILEY, either from
Brooklyn, N. Y, or Mechaniesburg. Pa.
CLARENCE A. GooDING. Washington.
JOHN WILLIAMS. Clarks, Neb.
J. C. DAVIS, of Davis Brigham Drug
Co, Denver.
HENRY DUNN. st. Louis.
Unidentified dead with description, etc-s
Twelve4year- boy.
Eight-year-old girl wearing plain ring
on third finger of left hand
Ten-year-oId. light hair.
Six-year-old girl, light hair and eyes.
Woman, full faced, brown hair, about
30 years Of age, wore blue plaid petticoat
NlEl
Undermined woman, no descriptions
badly mutilated.
Woman. black hair, dark complexion.
plain gold ring inscribed Nancy" shoes
stamped Selby Shoe company, Ports
mouth. Ohio.
Woman with red sweater blue and
white striped waist about As years of ages
weight about no pounds.
All unidentified are women or children
and bodies are badly mangled.
Engineer Missed Watch
While nothing official has been given
out as TO the cause of the wreck. 1t Is
said 10 have been due to misunder-
standing of orders on the part of the
engineer. Gustaf Olson, of the passenger
train. Olson, however, claims he UNDER
stood his instructions perfectly but that
he mfsread hfs 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 news of the catastrophe reached
Glenwood Springs, every available physi-
clan and nurse in the city YVES pressed
into service and relief train was soon
on the scene.
The work of rescue was Immediately
begn. Body after body was taken from
the wreckage and for a time, II appeared
as though the heartrending task would
never be completed. ...s
ruins. they were laid side by side on
bier of snow, many of them mangled be-
yond recognition.
| pathetic feature of the accident was
the killing of father, leaving two small
helpless children, four and two years DID,.
The elder boy told a nurse at the santa
rum that his father called him Bennie
and this is all he would say. From fell
low passenger, 1t was learned that the
family was en- route to Grand Junction 10
visit relatives IS ~ rfFEF SIS 1ae 81
Another. sad. case was the destruction
of an entire. family with the exception OF
an infant of three months. This helpless
child was taken care of by a kind family
at Shoehone, who intend to adopt the sole
survivor of a once happy family.
One of the remarkable incidents of the
wreck was the miraculous escape from
the Inflated chair car Of a Mr. Stall, or
Pueblo, Colo. salesman for a, commission
company of that city. Mr. Stall escaped
without a scratch but soon. afterwards
suffered a severe nervous shock and Is
tonight on the verge of nervous col
lapse. M
Another heart-breaking scene was en-
| acted in the wreck zone. when kind
hands gently lifted four-year-old girl
arms Nearby lay the body OF her
father. decapitated, and on every side
! were lifeless bodies.
The body of a woman was found lying
dozen yards from the wreckage, close
to the banks Of the Grand river, both
arms missing and otherwise horribly
mangled. rs A
trainload OF thirty wounded and
bleeding men and women arrived In
rof
morning. Carriages and wagonettes
were waiting. The wounded were taken
to the county hospital and sanitarium.
and when. the cots and. wards there had
been filled room was made in hotels Tor
the others. se-fr.als ~
1t was found at an early hour that
there was shortage OF surgeons ana
only first aid could be administered until
late this afternoon when surgeons from
all the surrounding cities arrived. A
woman died from her injuries in the
relief train while on her way to Glen
wood Springs. 57ssT ~, tfr
II Is expected that at least a dozen
others who were brought here will die
from their wounds. Train No. was
made up Of an engine and tender, a bag
gage car, smoker, followed by chair
car, a tourist sleeper and full COM
pifment Of standard sleepers and din.
ing car.
The locomotives are upon end and
Joined together as one piece Of mech
anfsm. Their, wheels were rolled down
into the Grand river and pieces of ma
cninery are scattered all over the scene
Of the wreck. The smoking car was
only partly derailed. while the chair,
ear, Immediately following, was COM
pletely telescoped by the, tourist sleeper.
More OF the standard sleepers left the
track and none was killed or injured in
these cars, most of the dead and, injured
being removed from the ruins Of the