Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1904 — SWALLOWED UP IN THE DARK WATERS [ARTICLE]

SWALLOWED UP IN THE DARK WATERS

Death Awaits His Harvest at a Flood-Weakened Trestle in Colorado. TWO CARLOADS ARE ENGULFED Scorn* of Men, Women and Children Die Like Rats in a Trap. DROP INTO THE RAGING WATER From Which bat Three That Went Down Now Live—Full Extent if the Death Roll May Never Be Known. Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 9. The wreck of the World’s Fair Flyer on the Denver and Kio Grande railroad near Eden, seven miles north of Pueblo, proves to have been one of the greatest railroad disasters in the history of the country. Two crowded passenger cars and a baggage car were engulfed in the torrent that tore but a trestle spanning Steele’s hollow, otherwise known as Dry creek, and so far as known only three of the occupants of these cars escaped death. Fortunately, two sleeping cars and a diner, completing the train, remained on the track at the edge of the abyss, and none of their occupants was killed and injured. Bodle* All Taken to Pueblo. How many perished probably will never be definitely ascertained, for the treacherous sands are drifting over the bodies. Searching for the dead was begun about midnight on an extensive scale, and still is in progress. All corpses found were brought to Pueblo and placed in four morgues here. At this writing seventy-six bodies have been recovered, and of these forty-nine have been identified. During the day bodies were recovered all the way along Fountain river from the 6cene of the wreck to this city.