The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-16
several of the Crews Killed and In
iured in a Wreck on the North
western, Near oeoria,
Illinois.
MISTAKE IN THE ORDERS
Engines and Many Cars Reduced to
Frssments-FataI Wreck on
the Rio Grsnde, Near
Colorado sprinsg.

PEORIA, H.. Jan. 16.--Two extra
freights on the Northwestern collided
head-on last evening near Limestone.
four miles northwest of this city.
Three trainment were instantly kill
cd. one is missing and believed to be
in the wreckage and two others SER
lously injured, one of whom may die.
The dead are:
JOE CURTAIN, engineer, Sterling,
Illinois.
NJ. METZLER, fireman, home in
Virginia.
ia. RUSSELL, brakeman, Sterling,
Illinois.
The missing:
O. A. Houchins, brakeman, Sterling,
Illinois.
The injured are:
W. ]. Watson. Chicago, fireman,
seriously; VII die.
Thomas Neville, Chicago, engineer,
leg broken and bruised.
The trains met in narrow valley
and each was going at full speed. The
northbound extra was in charge Of
Conductor w. c. Donichy, and the
southbound trains was in charge of
Conductor J. Schaffer Owing to dark
ness and the fitgul fallyof snow, the en-.
gineers could not see each others
trains until too close to avoid the
smash. Both engines and half dozen
loaded freight cars in each train were
piled into a splintered mass.
No blame can be definitely assigned
for the disaster, though 1t is generally
believed to have been the result of q
mistake in train orders. The road on
which the accident occurred is a
branch of the Northwestern which ex-
tends from Sterling to Peoria, III.
Eighteen Known to Be Dead.
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Col, jan.
l6-Eighteen known dead and thirty
injured is the latest estimates of the
casualties in collision last night at
Detsero between the west-bound Den
yer and Rio Grande passenger and an
east-bound freight. Detsero is TWEEN
ty miles from here and there is no
communication except by a railway
telegraph line which is now out of
commission. The freight. taking the
siding, nearly cleared the main track
When the passenger crashed into the
rear end The chair car of tho pas
senger was cut in two and tourist
car teiescoped Aid was sent from
mere this morning.
Officials Blame Passeoer Crew.
olhclals say the responsibility for
the wreck rests with the engine crew
ol the passenger train which was try
ih' 10 steal siding. In other quar-.
ers the freight crew claim they were
supposed to have received orders here
70 walt for the passenger at Detsero
Ater the crash the wreck took fire
anu the surviving passengers assisted
y night the flames.
one Report Places Dead at 20.
fohBLO, Col. Jan. 16.-According
" information received here today
Mehty bodies We're taken from the
wreck OF the Denver and Rio Grande
passenger that collided with an east.
"'uhd freight last night Thirty are
''ported injured, many fatally.
sxact Death List Not Known.
- LENWOOD SPRINGS Colo. Jan.
w., aAt noon it was impossible to es.
''e the exact number of dead. The
many injured -
iowa Men in the Wreck,
j, pENVER, Col. Jan. 16.-At the
nsouquasters ~. of the Denver and Rie
sm anue railway statemment was is
eu thls morning which declares the
Su'lioer S. OF dead in the Glenwoot
p'nes e., wreck will not exceed twenty
No.. N.Y.. ~ is said twenty bodies have
sa In recovered; thirty-five are ar,
AnoWn to be injured.
,,o4. aniohg the injured are Thomas Ell
Iws VI VI pendleton, Iowa; Fred Jensen
Falls, Iowa. 'nloi' WI
&, wo T Des Moines Peop,e Dead.
identiso," da"ooD' Jan. 16.-Among the
.lnea dead are Edward Gooding
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