The San Francisco call., 1909-01-17
q KILLED; 30
INJURED, RESULT
OF TRAIN CRASH
Fast Passenger and Freight on
Denver and Rio Grande
in Collision
misunderstanding of Orders Is
Said to Have Caused
Fatal Wreck
Chair Car Telescoped and Occu-
pants Either Killed or
Manned

pants ElIneT kllleQ or
Manned
IDENTIFIED DEAD:
j. ID. MAHAN, Princeton, Ind.
A. A. HAMILTON, Polo. Ill.
w. C. KETTLE, Ashton, Neb.
MRS. MATTE KETTLE, Ashton. Neb.
MRS. MATTE EZELL, Williston, N d.
G. w. OLESON, ST. Louis, Mo.
DIR. ARVILLA A. OLSON, either from
Hildreth, Neb.. or Axtell. Neb.
REV. L. r.. MEILEY, either from
Brooklyn. N Y, or Mechanicsburg. Pa.
CLARENCE A. GooDING, Washing
ton.
JOHN WILLIAMS, Clarks, Neb.
j. c. DAVIS of Davis -Bridaham drug
company, Denver
HENRY DUNN, ST. Lous..
GLENwooD sPRlNGs, Colo. Jan. 1s.
Twenty-ore persons were killed and 80
injured, many of them seriously, in a
head on collision between westbound
passenger train No. and an east
bound freight train on the Denver and
Rio Grande railroad between Dotsero
and Spruce Creek, % miles from Glen
wood Springs. at 1886 o'clock last night
So far only II dead have been identi-
fed. The unidentified dead number
nine, all women and children. whose
bodies are badly mangled. Among the
injured are w. G. Maxey, 1347 Walnut
street, Los Angeles; Mrs. A. w. Nc
CauIey and child. Los Angeles; Charles
Nance and Mrs. Charles Nance, Rock
lin, Cal, injured internally; condition
of both serious.
While nothing oficiai has been given
out as to the cause of the wreck, 1T is
said to have been due to a misunder-
standing of orders on the part of En-
gineer Gustaf Olson of the passenger
train. Olson, however. declares he un-
derstood his instructions perfectly. but
that he misread his watch, thus en-
croaching 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.
Relief Train Starts
When news of the catastrophe
reached Glenwood Springs every
available physician and nurse in the
city was pressed into service and a re-
lief train was soon on the scene. never
to be forgotten In its grewsomeness
and horror.
Body after body was taken from the
wreckage and for time it appeared as
though the heartrending task would
never be completed. AS the bodies
were taken from the ruins they were
laid side by side on bier. amid the
agonizing shrieks of husband and wife,
child and parent, as they searched
among the dead for their loved ones.
many of whom were mangled beyond
recognition.
Tiny Infant Escapes
Another sad case was the destruc-
tion of an entire family with the
exception of an infant of months.
This helpless child was taken care of
by family, who intend to adopt it.
One of the remarkable incidents of
the wreck was the escape from the
i'll fated chair car of a man named
Stall of Pueblo Colo, salesman for a
commission company of that city.
Stall escaped without a scratch, but
soon afterward suffered severe ner-
vous shock and is tonight on the verge
Of a nervous collapse.
Hospital Train Arrives
A train carrying 80 wounded men
and women who barely escaped with
their lives arrived in Glenwood Springs
at 7 o'clock this morning. Carriages
and wagonettes were waiting at the
Rio Grande depot when the train came
to a stop. The wounded were taken to
the county hospital and to the santa
rum, and when the cots and wards
had been filled rooms were secured in
the hotels of Glenwood Springs for the
manned.
1t was found at an early hour that
there was shortage of surgeons and
only first aid could be administered
until late this afternoon, when sur
geons from all the surrounding cities
began to pour into Glenwood Springs
A woman died from her injuries on
the relief train while on her way here
Many Expected to Die
1t is expected that at least a dozen
or more who were brought here will
die from their wounds.
Train No. was made up of an en-
gine and tender, a baggage car, a
smoking car. followed by a chair car
tourist sleeper and a full complement
of Pullman sleepers and dining car
The locomotives are UP on end and
joined together as one piece of mach.
anism. Their wheels were rolled down
into the Grand river and pieces of ma.
chinery are scattered all over the
scene of the wreck