The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
Tuenty-one
 Forty A Horrible Wreck in. Colorado. PASSENGER AND FREIGHT
 TRAINS IN COLLISION Nurses and Physicians Are Rushed
 to Scene. Ehe Only Occupant of Chair~ Car Who Escaped wass Little Girl Who Was Found Piaaed Under
 Mothers Dead
Nurses and Physicians Are Rushed
 to Scene.

Glenwood Springs. Colo. Jan. 16-- Twenty-one persons were killed and over forty injured, many of them se- riously in head-on collision between westbound passenger train No. s and an eastbound freight train. on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. between Dot sero and Spruce Creek twenty-five miles from Gienwood Springs. at s;ss o'clock last night.
 While nothing official has been given. out as to the cause of the wreck. 1t Is said to have been due to misunder- standing of orders on the part of En- train. Olsen. however. claims he un-' derstood his instructions perfectly, but that he misread his watch, thus en-. croaching 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 Olsen.
 When news of the catastrophe reach- ed Gienwood Springs every available physician and nurse in the city were pressed into service, and relief train was soon on the. scene. The work Of rescue was immediately begun.
 As the bodies were taken from the ruins they were laid side by side on bier of snow amid the agonising shrieks of husband. hwife and parent. as they searched for their loved ones, many of whom were mangled beyond all recog- nition.
 The Pathetic Features.
 A pathetic featilre of the accidentfwas the killing of father. leaving two small children, the elder being four, boy told q hurasla at Inc satiitaflum that his father cail6d Aim Bennia and that aaaii he would say. From fellow pass sanger 1t was learned that the family was en route to Grand Iunetiop to visit
 n is suppessa that Mf. and Mrs 5ZettIe. whose names appear among the dead, were parents of these two little ones. who are badly injured.
 Another sad case was the destructions of a entire family, with. the exception of an infant of three months. This help- less child was taken care of by fam fly at Shoshone. who intend to adopt the sole survivor of once happy fam lily.
 Another neartDreakfng scene was en- acted in the wreck zone, when kind hands lifted a four-year-old gfrl from the death clasp Of her mothers. arms. Nearby lay the body of her father. de- capitated and on one side were lifeless bodies, victims of the disaster.~1
 4 train load of thirty wounded and bleeding men and women arrived in Glenwood Springs at o'clock this morning. The wounded were taken to the county hospital. and to the sam itarium and when the cots and wards there had been filled, room was made in hotels for the maimed. sF9
 A woman died from her injuries in the relief train. while on her way Co Glenwood Springs It is expected that at least dozen others, who wefe brought here. will die.
 Train No was made up of an en- zine and tender. baggage car. a smo- king car, followed by a chair car, a tourist sleeper and full complement ot standard sleepers and a dining car. 2
 The locomotives are up on end and are joined together as one piece Os mechanism. Their wheels were rolled down into the Grand River. and pieces of machinery are scattered all over the scene of the wreck. The smoking caP was only partly derailed. while the chair car immediately following was completely telescoped by the tourist sleeper.
 None of the standard sleepers left tho track and no one was killed or injured
 
 jured being recovered from the ruins ot the chair car, which was split complete ly in twain.
 As soon as reports of the collision were received In this city, relief train was quickly made up and started for Dotsero with large corps of physi- clans and nurses pressed Into service at Glenwood Springs. Several hours afterward when even the brief reports being received made 1t evident that the wreck was more direful than first reported, another relief train with an additional number of people intended to minister to the injured and dying, was hurried away. The first of these relief trains was expected hack to Glenwood Springs at 2 o'clock but word came that 1t would be impossible to leave the scene of the accident for several hours
 OnIy Brief Reports.
 Throughout the night. brief reports were received from Gypsum. eight miles from Dotsero to which place they were carried by messengers and then telephoned to the Rio Grande offices here. These indicated that the wreck was most complete In the forward cars of the passenger train and the engines of both the freight. which was A doubie-header. and the passenger. The three monster mountain locomotives wre standing on end a mass of twisted and broken iron, while the smoker, the chair car and the forward tourist car of the passenger train were either com Dlete wrecks or badly smashed. The chair car, fin which most of the killed were riding, was cut in two and the tourist was telescoped. The latter was lying overturned alongside the track while the chair car lay across the right Df way. The Pullmans remained on the track and were undamaged. All inside them were unhurt.
 The occupants of the Pullman cars performed valiant service in caring for theA dead and injured and worked throughout the night at this task.
 Just who Is responsible for the acci- Aent is not known at this time for avery member of the three engine crews Is injured, some of them badly. and have not been interrogated in the