The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-22
MANY DEAD AND HURT
SIN COLORADO WRECK
Denver { Rio Grande Train
Crashes Into d Freight.
ENGINEER MIsREADs IFS WATCH
Only Twelve Of the Victims Are
Observation-Disclosures Dead Are
Women and Children Badly
MangIed-None In SIeepers Hurt

III SleeperS hurt
Glenwood Springs, Col.-Twenty-
enc persons were killed ana forty ina
jured; many Of them seriously, In a
head-on collision between a west-
bound passenger train and an east.
bound freight train on the Denver
and Rio Grande Railroad; between
Dotsero and Spruce Creek; twenty
two miles from Glenwood Springs, at
$3.50 o'clock at night: Following is d
revised list of the dead and descrip-
tons that may assist Id the identified.
ton of the unidentified dead:
The identified dead were: J.. b:
Mahon; Princeton, Ind; A. A. Ham.
ilton, Polo, ILL.,; W. C. Kettle, Ashton,
Neb.; Mrs. Matte Kettle, Ashton,
Neb.; Mrs. Matte Ezell, Williston, N.
D.; G. w. Oleson, st. Louis, Mo-; DR..
Arville A. Olesonj either from Hill
drethi Neb., or Axtell, Neb.; the Rev.
Z: L. Meiley; either from Brooklyn,
N: Y, or Merchandising, Pa, Clar.
ence. A: Gooding; Washington, John
Williams; Clarks, Neb.; John Will
Jams; Des Moines, Iowa; J: c. Davis,
of Davis Brigham Drug Co., Denver;
Henry Dunn, st. Louis; Mo.
r. The unidentified dead were:
Twelve-year-old boy; eight-year-old
girl, wearing plain ring ON third fin.
ger left hand; ~ten-year-old boy, light
hair; si~x-year-old girl, light hair and
eyes; woman, full face, brown hair,
about thirty years old, wore blue
plaidepetticoat and Catholic brooch;
woman, no description, badly mutilat-
ed; woman, black hair, dark COM
plexion, plain gold ring inscribed
Nancy" shoes stamped "Selby Shoe
Company, Portsmouth, Ohio" WON
an, with red sweater, blue and white
striped waist, about forty-fve years
of age, weight about 10 pounds.
All the unidentified are women OF
children, and their bodies are badly
mangled.
While nothing official has been
given out as to the cause of the
wreck, it is said to have been due to
a misunderstanding of orders on the
part of the engineer, Gustaf Olson,
of the passenger train. Olson, how
ever, asserts he understood his in.
structions perfectly, but that he mis-
read his watch, thus encroaching 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. Olson.
When the news of the catastrophe
reached Glenwood Springs every
available physician and nurse in the,
city was pressed into service and a
relief train was made up.
A pathetic feature of the accident
was the killing of a father, leaving
two small children, the eldest being
four years old, the youngest two. The
elder boy told a nurse at the santa.
rum that his father called him Ben.
ME, and this is all he will say. From
a fellow passenger it was learned
that the family was en- route to Grand
Junction to visit relatives. 1t is sup.
posed that Mr.. and Mrs. Kettle, whose
names appear among the dead, were
the parents of these two little ones
who are badly injured.
None of the sleepers left the track
and none vas killed or injured in
these cars, most of the dead and in
jured being removed from the ruins
OF the chair car, which was complete
ly split in twain.