Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-01-16
CARS were CRUSHtD
TO MERE FRAGMENTS
Sixty eight People Out of Sixty
nine In Chair Car Instantly
Killed. Eight Persons
We're DeCapi
tdted.


fifty injured, with the probability that
at least thirty of them will die.
That is the record of the wreck late
last night of Denver and Rio Grande
railroad passenger tram No. near
Dotsero station, twenty miles from
Glenwood Springs. The information
comes in a long distance telephone
message from Glenwood Springs this
morning, but only a few details are
available from the facts that Dotsero
can be reached only by the railroad
wire.
The known dead are:
JOHN c. DAVIS, Denver.
- MAHON, Princeton Ind.
MRS. MARGARET FRANCESCA
WELL. Wallaston, N. d.
EDWARD GOODlNG, Omaha.
ARTHUR WILLIAMS, Des Moines.
Following is the list o. injured as
furnished by the Denver and Rio
Grande railroad:
John Rosso, Cleveland; Thomas Ell
lott, Pendleton, Iowa; T. d. Miller,
Denver; Charles p. Mandee and wife;
Avius Dolopi, VIM. NJ. Barber, An
thony, Kansas; j. IL. Hayden, wife
and child, Buffalo, Okla; Fred Jen-
son, Iowa Falls, Iowa; Mrs. Nellie j.
Morton, Standish, California; Mrs. A.
w. McCauley and child, Winnemuccx,
Nevada; j. b. Thompson, Brook.ngs.
South Dakota; f. Chandler, Denver;
ID. E. Cannon, Twin Falls, Iowa; Pull
man Conductor MCGOWAN, Denver;
Clarence Nassau.
To add to the horror of the wreck
the second relief train on its way to
Glenwood, loaded with injured, has
been tied up by the derailment of
some freight cars.
The first relief train, bearing a
number of slightly injured, reached
Glenwood early this morning, bring
ing reports of the wreck, which ap-
pears to have been one Of the worst
in the history of railroading.
The most of the slaughter appears
to have been done in the chair car.
OF sixty-nine passengers in that coach
siXty-eight are said to have been
killed. The one human being to es-
cape was a six-year- girl, who was
found under the body of her mother
and who is too dazed to remember
even her name, except that II Is
Alice" No further Identification OF
the dead has been made, according to
the reports reaching Glenwood
Springs.
The dead are, in many instances,
so mutiliated that Identification will
be very difficult.
At the office OF General Manager
Ridgway of the Denver and Rio Gran
de, it was stated that reports there
show the list of dead win number 23
and the injured from twenty-five to
thirty. No details have yet been re-
ceived.
According to a GlenWood dispatch
the wreck was caused by the failure
of Engineer Gus Olson, of the pas
senger train, to correctly read the
time indicated by his watch. When
at Dotsero, Olson looked at his watch
and read it 9:46 when it was then
$50. Thinking that he had time TO
make the next siding below Dotsero
hp pulled the throttle wide open and
was making forty-five miles an hour
on down grade when his train col
lided with a freight which was labor
Ing up hill with two b g engines.
The three engines telescOped and
when they came to a standstill re-
sembled one big piece Of twisted steel
and iron. The combination baggage
and express car, smoker and day coach
followed the engine and telescoped,
while three heavy Pullmans and a
diner crushed the entire mass against
the engines
The light coaches were smashed as
though they We're egg shells and
nearly every person in the chair car
was killed. Eight persons were de-
capitated as though guillotined and
their heads rolled from their bodies.
The bodies are so mutiiiated that Il
will take hours for identification.
The wreckage caught fire imme-
dlately after the wreck and a holo-
caust was averted by the passengers
who escaped injury. and members of
the train crew who secured shovels
and boards and put out the blaze with
snow, which was piled high along the
side of the track