The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-01-17
I WEN I Y.ONIE
PERSONS
DEAD
Late Report Reduces Num-
Der of Killed and Injured;
MOre Awful Details

MOre Awful Details
Glenwood Springs. Colo, Jan. 10
Twenty-one persons were killed and
thirty injured, many of them serious
ly. in a head-on collision between
westbound passenger train No and
7n eastbound freight train on the Den
Yer & Rio Grande railway between
Dotsero and Spruce Creek, % miles
from Glenwood Springs, at 9:35 o'clock
last night The dead:
Identified dead:
j D. Mahon, Princeton, Ind.
A. A Hamilton, Polo, Ills.
w c. Kettle, Ashton. Neb.
Mrs. Matte Kettle, Ashton. Neb
Mrs. Matte Ezell Williston, n. d.
G. w. Oleson. st Louis.
Dr. Arvilla A. Oleson either from
Hildreth, Neb., or ANtell, Neb
Rev r L, Meiley. either from Brook
lyL. n. Y, or Mechanicsburg. Pa
Clarence A. Gooding, Washington,
u. c.
j. C. Davis, Davi5-Bridham Drug
Company. Denver.
Henry Dunn, St Louis.
The unidentified dead number nine.
all women and children whose bodies
are badly maBgled, Among the in
iGred are w. G.. MaXey, 12l7 Walnut
street. Los Angeles, and Mrs. A. w.
McAuley and child. Los Angeles.
Most or the slaughter was done in
the chair car. OF slXty-nine passen-
gers in that coach. siXty-eight are
said 10 have been killed The one
human being TO escape was a SIX
yeaT-old girl who was found under the
dead body of her mother. and who is
tco dazed even TO remember her name,
farther than it is Alice
No further identiGcations of the
dead have been made. according to the
reports reaching Glenwood. The dead
are in many instances so horribly
inutileted that Identification will be
very difficult.
A partial list of Injured follows:
w. G. MaXly, 13l7 Walnut ST.. Los
Angeles
Thomas Elliott, Pendleton, Iowa.
w, Adair. Rayenna. Ohio.
T. B. Miller. Denver
Mrs. G. Blanke. Wapolin. Mo.
Charles P Nance
Mrs Charles P Nance.
Vim. Barber, Anthony, Kansas.
J. II. Hayden and child, Buffalo, Ok.
Fred Jensen. Iowa Falls, la.
Mrs Nellie j. Morton. Standish, Cal.
w. c. MoXey, Los Angeles.
j. b. Thompson. Bookens, S. D.
+. Chandler, Denver
Clyde f. McCown, Pullman conduc.
tCr
Clarence Nassau, Middlebury, VT.
Among those who were on the train
anG escaped are:
G. P. Gillette.
Mrs. C. P, Wallace. Grand Junction
Mrs. Sarah MCLEAN, Grand juno
tlon.
Mrs F p Robinson and two chill
G1cn, Grand junction.
Ernest Fitzpatrick, Grand Junction
DR.. Charlotte Hall. ST. Paul
Emma Strafford. Cleveland, Ohio
Mary Il. Spear. Cleveland.
mertle Spear, Cleveland
+. l.. Rolf, Winside, Neb
Hugh Gregg and family, Harrisburg,
Ill
u. p. Cannon, Twin Falls. Idaho.
While nothing official has been Civ
en- out as TO the cause OF the wreck.
II is said to have been due 10 a mis-
understanding of orders on the part
Of Engineer GustaG Olson, of the pas
Senger train. Olson. however, claims
he understood his instructions per-
fectly. but that he misread his watch.
thus encroaching on the time oil the
freight train. which was being drawn
by two locomotives. the first OF which
was in charge of his brother, Sig Oh
son.
When news Of the wreck reached
Gicnwood Springs every available phy.
sician and nurse in the CITY was
pressed into service and relief train
was soon on the scene never to be for.
gotten in its grucsomeness and hor.
TOr.
Body after body was taken from the
wreckage and for time II appeared
as though the heartrending task would
never be completed. AS the bodies
were taken from the ruins they were
laid side by side on a bier OF snow
amid the agonizing shrieks of husband
and wife. child and parent, as they
searched among the dead for thell
loved ones. many of whom werC
lhangled beyond recognition.
pathetic feature of the accident
vas the killing of father and mother
leaving two small children, the eldes
being four years old, the younges
TWO. The oldest boy told a nurse al
the sanitarlum that his father Calleg
Elm Bennie and this is all he will say
from fellow passenger 1t wa:
learned that the family was en- route
10 Grand Junction TO visit relatives
Is supposed Mr.. and Mrs Kettle
whose names appeared among th'
aead' were the parents of these two
pttle ones. who are badly injured.
Another sad case was the destruc
t'on~ OF an entire family with the OK
cfption of an infant of three months
lhlS helpless child was taken care @
by kind family nj Shoshonc. VIII,
latend to adopt the sole survivor o
once happy family.
One of the remarkable incidents o