Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-08-28
Wreck IN COLORADO
nine PEOPLE KILLED AND 81
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Head On Collision Occurs Near Colorado
Springs Between Passenger Trains
So Many Trains the Crew Got Mixed
in Their Orders-Accident Happened
on Curve Around Hill.

on CuIVe AROUND hill.
Colorado Springs, Colo, Aug. 49,
Nine killed and 81 injured is the net
loss and injury to human life in a
head-on collision on the Denver & Rio
Grande Saturday morning near Hustled.
Is miles north of Colorado Springs. No.
8, northbound, double header, struck
No. /, southbound, within a stone 3
throw Of Hustled.
No had come to stop, but on ae-
count of a curve at that point the
engineer on No. s did not see his
train 3 peril until too late, and tele-
scOped the engine and combination
baggage ear and smoker of No. ].
The crew Of No. 8 mistOok an extra
train that was on the siding for No.
1 and pulled out contrary to orders.
No. had no chance TO make the sid
ing.
The first section of No. ] passed
about 20 minutes before, and seeing
an extra engine on the sidetrack the
conductor Of No. 6, it is said, concluded
that the second section of No. ! had
pulled into the clear.
Consequently, he ordered his train to
90 ahead. 1t had gained considerable
momentum by the time it reached the
spot where the wreck occurred. The
northbound train was climbing a hill
and was unable TO see the other train
because Of the obstruction at the curve.
The conductor on No. ], who had been
looking out Of the train as il dropped
down the hill, saw the approach Of No.
and pulled the cord, bringing his train
10 a stop. Before he could get 10 the
front, however, and warn No. the
crush came.
Dead and Injured
The dead: james Roespols, Chicago;
c. Al. Larkin, Colorado springs; c. s.
Brown, Jerieo springs, Mo-; }. A. Cos
sage, fireman on No. q, Colorado
Springs 7. u. Murphy, travelling car
agent, Denver; A. A. Davidson, Nc
PhersOn, Kan; Attorney y. 9. Weder-
iek, st. Louis; D. W. Bellies, Colombo
springs Peter Nelson, Monroe, Neb.j
james j. Parker, Chicago.
The injured; W, W. Taylor, Pueblo,
leg broken; John W. Roberts, New
Cambria, NO, head cut q. y. White
sides, Jericho SPRING, Mo- chest
crushed III. q. Kemper, Denver, leg
and arm broken Andrew jacobson,
Oldeni n. ~, internal INJURIES Peter
fratrichOu, Colorado Springs, head
cut u. y. Shaver, Denver, slight in-
juries; ~. -. sacks, Denver, arm
broken Charles Campbell, Denver, leg
bfokepj Oscar Lessig, engineer, badiy
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