The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-16
MANY BODIES
 RECOVERED FROM
 THE WRECKED CARS
Scene of Accident Difficult of Access and Full Extent of Catastrophe Not Known as Yet = Snow Used to Quench Burning Cars-Chair Car Was Cut In Two.
Special from United Press.)


 Glenwood Springs, Colo, Jan. 16- Dotsero will not exceed twenty-five, according to the statement issued to- day at the general headquarters of the Denver & Rio Grande The statement says that at this hour there were twen- ty bodies recovered and 35 persons were known to be injured.
 Glenwood Springs. Colo, Jan. 16.- Twenty known dead and at least thirty injured is the latest estimate of the casualties in the collision last night at Dotsero between a west bound Den yer Rio Grande passenger train and an east bound freight. DOtsero is but twenty miles from here but there is no communication with the place other than the railway telegraph line which is now out of commission This ac- counts for the lack of details of the wreck. .s-Jl .,i
 It is believed here. that when, all the dead are recovered. it will be found that between 20 and 50 persons have lost their lives. Thirty bodies are sup posed to be under the Wreckage.
 The freight was making a siding and had almost cleared the main track when struck by the passenger. The SAdL Cdi ol lIlc tEdln was cut III two and another car telescoped. It is be- lieved the death list will be increased
 No one was injured in the sleeping cars. A train left here early this morning for the wreck. carrying all available doctors and nurses in the city.
 Railroad officials here say the respon- sibility for the wreck rests with the engineer of the passenger train who was trying to "steaP' a siding. In other quarters the freight crew is blamed as they were supposed to have received orders here to wait for the passenger at Dotsero. Sx
 The scene of the wreck is very difTl- cult of access. On one side is a pre- The telescoped chair car and the first coach of the passenger were both re- duced to a mass of debris. It is believ- ed that none of the persons in the chair car escaped injury.
 Snow. which lined the tracks was brought into service to extinguish the fire which started immediately after the wreck. A relief train was sent from Detsero immediately after news of the disaster became known. The first news of the wreck was received from the crew of the west bound Den yer & Rio Grande passenger train No. l. which followed the ill-fated passeng- CT train to Detsero by two hours. The crew telegraphed to this city. imned- lately picked up doctors and nurses, and sped to the scene of the wreck.
 Among the known dead is Gus Olsen. of salida. engineer of the passenger train. /.
 Owing to the nature of conditions the work of rescue has been greatly impeded. Doctors and nurses and the relief train which has arrived declare the horror of the scene is almost in describable. The cars in the wreck, they said, were nothing but masses of wood and twisted iron and steel, As fast as the dead are taken out their bodies are placed in a long row at the side of the track awaiting relief trains to bear them away.
 Railroad officials in charge of the relief work refuse to make any esti- mate of the dead or to give out any lists of the killed or injured. The hospitals and morgues are rapidly be- ing filled and the confusion is great.
 Word was received here at o'clock that two more relief trains were on the way with wounded.