The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-01-20
TWENTY KILLED
And Thirty Injured Out In cele-
rado In Fearful
Rail LWAY SMASH-UP

Kali WAY SMASH-Up
West Bound Passenger Train on the
Denver and Rio Grande Colltdes
| With an East Bound Freight.
Victims IncIudes Many Women
and Children.
Glenwood Springs, Colo, Jan. 1e.
Twenty persons we're killed and
thirty injured, many of them se-
riously, in headon collision be-
tween west-bound passenger train
No. S and an east-bound freight
train on the Denver and Rio Grande
railroad, between Dotsero and
Spruce Creek, twenty-five miles from
Glenwood Springs, at 9:s6 o'clock
last night.
While nothing official has been
given out ct to the cause Of the
wreck, it is stated to have heen due
to q misunderstanding Of orders on
the part Of the engineer, Gustas
Olson, of the passenger train. Oh
son, however, claims that he uader-
stood his instructions perfectly, but
that he misread his watch, thus
encroaching on the time OF the
freight train, which was being drawn
by two locomotives, THE arst Of
which was in charge Of his brother.
Sig Olson.
When news of the catastrophe
reached Glenwood Springs every
available physician and nurse in the
city was 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
-uiHs they were laid side by side on
= bier of snow amid the agonizing
shrieks Of husband, wife and parent
as they searched among the dead for
their loved ones, many OF whom
we're mangled beyond all r.sesui-
ion.
A pathetic feature Of the acci-
lent was the killing of a father.
'eaving two small children, the elder
,eisg four years old, the younger
wo. The elder boy told a nurse
It the sanitarium that his father
called him bennie, and this is all
1e will say. From a fellow passen-
ger it was learned that the family
vas en- route to Grand Junction to
7isit relatives.
1t is supposed that Mr.. and MES.
Kettle, whose names appear among
he dead, were the parents Of these
wo little ones, who are badly in
iured.
Another sad case was the destruo-
ION Of an entire family with the e1-
'eption Of an infant Of three months.
This helpless child was aiken care
# by family at Shoshone, who In
end to adopt the sole survivor OF q
once happy family.
Another heart-breaking scene was
'nacted ia the wreck zone, when
1ind hands gently lifted a four-year-
I'D girl from the death clasp of her
rother's arms. Nearby lay the body
# her father, decapitated, and on
very side were lifeless bodies, vic
inns Of the disaster.
Atrain load Of thirty wounded
nd bleeding men and women ar
lved in Glenwood Springs at I
''clock this morning. The wounded
7ere taken to the county hospital
Ind to the sanitarium, and when the
'ots and wards there had been filed,
Dom was made in hotels for the
naimed.
A woman died from her injuries
4 the relief train, while on her way
Glenwood Springs. 1t is expect
ID that at least dozen others who
we're brought here will die.
Train No. was made up of al
.ngine and tender, baggage car, q
;moking car and full complement
f standard sleepers and G dining
:ar.
The locomotives are up on end
nd Joined together as one piece of
nechanicism. Their wheels were
oiled down into the Grand River
nd pieces Of machinery are scat
cred all over the scene of the wreck.
The smoking car was only partly
lerailed, while the ehari car i'm
aediately following was comletely ,
elescoped by the tourist sleeper.
None Of the standard sleepers left
| he track and no one was killed or
| INJURED in these cars, most Of the
cad and injured being removed
rom the ruins Of the chair car which
:as split completely in twain. q