The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-17
MANY BODIES MANCLED so
RECOGNITION IS IMPOSSIBLE
Engineer of Passenger Declares He Understood
Orders, But Msread Watch--Brother Was
Engineer of Freight Train--Pathetic
and Heartrending Scenes.

Glenwood Springs, Colo, Jan, 16.-
At least twenty persons were kille6
and thirty injured, many of then
seriously, in a collision between west
bound passenger train No. J and an
cast bound freight train on the Den
Yer and Rio Grande railroad between
DCtsero and Spruce Creek, % miles
from Glenwood Springs last night
identified Dead.
j. D. MAHON, Princeton, Ind
A A. HAMILTON, Polo. ILL.,
w c. KETTLE. Ashton, Neh.
MRS. MATTE KETTLE. Ashton,
Neb.
MRS. MATTE EzELL, williston,
n. y.
G. W. OLESON, st, Louis.
DIR. ARVII.LA A. OLESON, either
from Hildreth, Neb, or Axtell, Neb
REV. r. L. MEILEY, either from
Brooklyn, N. y or Mechanicsburg,
Pa
CLARENCE A. GoODTNG, Wash
ington.
JOHN WILLIAMS Clarks, Neb
-. I. u}kA v 10, VI ltt lfdk 10 ID X tiAtul
Drug Co. Denver.
HENRY DUNN, St Louis,
Unidentified Dead.
A 12-year-Old-girl S-year old girl /:
1G-year-old boy; 6-yearold boy; four
women.
While nothing official is given as
to the cause of the wreck, it Is said
to have been due to a misunderstand-
ing of orders on the part of Engineer
Gtstaf Olsen, of the passenger train.
Olsen, however, claims he understood
his instructions perfectly, but that he
misread his watch. thus encroaching
on the time of the freight train
which was being drawn by two loco
motives, the first of which was in
charge of his brother, Sig Olsen.
Relief Rushsd TO Scene.
When the news of the catastrophe
reached Glenwood Springs every
available physician and nurse in the
city was pressed into service aud
relief train was soon on the scene.
The work of rescue was immediate
ly begun Body after body was taken
from the wreckage, and for time it
appeared as though the heart renIing
task would never be completed.
A. the bodies were taken from the
ruins they were laid side by side on
shrieks of husband wife child and
parent. as they searched among the
dead for their loved ones. Many Of
them were mangled beyond recogni.
tion.
Pathetic Incident.
A pathetic feature of the accident
was the killing of father. leaving
two small helpless children the ED
est being four years old. the youngest
two.
The elder boy told a nurse at the
sanitarium that his father called him
EeEnie and this Is all he will say. |
Prom q fellow passenger it was
learned that the family was en- route
10 Grand Junction to visit relatives
II is supposed that Mr.. and Mrs. Ket |
tie whose names appear among the |
Head. we're the parents Of these two
li;tle ones who are badly injured
Another sad case was the destr1lc- |
tiou OF an entire family with the ex
ccUtion IF an infant of three months. |
This helpless child was taken charge /
Of by a family at Shoshone. who in
tend to adopt It.
Remarkable Escape
one Of the remarkable incidents Of /
the wreck was the miraculous escape |
from the illfstel chair car Of Mr.. |
Siahi. of Pueblo Colo. Stahl es-
oared without a scratch but son /
afterward suffered a severe nervous 4
shock ami is tonight on the verge Of 1
nervous collapse Another heart /
bTtsking scene was enarted In the
wreck zone when Bind hands gently
lifted a 4-year-oid girl from the death ]
c,aFl e her mothef's arms Near b.