The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-16
Fifty More Are Badly
Hurt in Colorado
Collision.
VICTIMS BATTERED
BEYOND RECOGNITION
Fast Passenger and String of
Freights Crash Near Glen
wood Springs.
6S OUT OF 90 IN ONE
SLAIN INSTAslNsTIII T. Y
Many Others Are Expected to
Die-Relief Trains Are
Rushed to the Scene.

9iENWOoD 81. RINGS. Col. Jan. f~
sevenfy-one persons were killed and
over nifty injured. at least thirty Of
whom viii proably die In n collision st
Dofscro siding. about twenty miles
east of this city on the Denver aud Rge
Grande RaiIrond. between pa~senurr
truin NO 5. west bound. spd freight
train No &c. cnSf bound. nj about fos3U
last night
The passenger trcin wns flying down
The grade making for n Siding are
miles west of Dotsero. where n ~
pected 10 meet the freight. snd the
freight was also trying 10 make the
Siding.
Thc result was head-on collision. in
which the engines were smsshed. the
baggage of the passenger train
isft standing ON end. one of the dry
coaches teIescoped by the chair ear I'm
mediafeiy behind ii. and atty persens
in the day coach and chair car manxlea
almost beyond recognition.
10 add to the horror of the wreck
the second relief train on its way to
Glenwood loaded with injured has been
ued up by the derailment of some OF
the freight cars The first relief train.
bearing number of the more slightly
injured, reached Glenwood this morn
ing. bringing reports Of the wreck.
which appears to have been one of the
worst in the history of railroading.
Only One in Car Excaped.
Most of the slaughter was done in
The chair car. of sixty-nine Passengers
in that coach sixty eight arc said to
hax I-iI
was 6-year-oid girl. who was found
under the dead body of her mother
and who is too near dead even to re-
member her name further than that it
is Alice" No further identifcations
of the dead have been made, according
to the reports reaching Glenwood.
The dead are in many instances so
horribly mutilated that Identification
will be very difficult
Only meagre details have been re-
ceived here. 1t was impossible to carry
the wounded around the wreck and this
fact delayed the relief to passengers
for more than an hour
The passenger train is said to have
been going at a high rate of speed
when it reached the siding at Dotsero.
1t is supposed that the engineer of the
passenger IhOugnI tnal the Irelgnt mad
passed the siding. and was going too
rapidly to stop his train when he saw
the danger
The great locomotive attached to the
passenger train was demolished. and
the chair car and passenger coach was
turned on their sides and shattered
Relief Train Blocked.
Train No. 0, which was wrecked, left
Denver yesterday morning. It was
well filled with passengers, many OF
whom were 10 get off at this point.
Dotsero is blind siding, with no sta
ton and no telegraph office.
When the relief train reached the
scene It was found that a long string
of freight cars on the freight train was
in the way, and the only way they
could be disposed of was to back them
to Shoshone. eight miles from the ac-
cident.
The physicians and nurses, however
left the relief train as soon as they
reached there and ministered as best
they could to the dead and dying.
A special train, with Amos G. RidE-
way, general manager of the Denver
and Rio Grande. and other Denver off,
cials of the road on board left Denver
last midnight for the scene OF the
wreck. The special was given right pf
way over the Colorado Midland and
Denver and Rio Grande, and made q
record run to Dotsero.