Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1904 — GATHERING UP THE CORPSES [ARTICLE]

GATHERING UP THE CORPSES

Kora Bodiaa Found by the Colorado Searcher*—Missing List Is Growing. Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 10. —Organized searching parties scoured the Fountain river banks for miles in the hope of finding the remaining bodies of the victims of Sunday night’s wreck at Eden. Seven more bodies were recovered and a number identified. Those identified were: Dr. W. F. Munn, Thomas O’Bannon and J. Q. Thomas and wife, Pueblo; A. M. Schmidt, Denver; L. A. Stevens, residence not known; Mrs. Downing and daughter Carrie, Colorado Springs; Miss Alice Shoup, Fort Wayne. Ind.; W. B. Salsbury, cattle man, Sterling, Colo.; Miss Jeanette Sherman, Carthage, Mo.; Miss Carrie Bishop, Pueblo. The total number of identified bodies recovered from the Eden wreck at this hour is 73; unidentified dead, three. The list of those reported missing has been growing, and has now nearly reached forty. The morgue and undertaking establishments are besieged by anxious relatives and friends. The work of identification is proceeding slowly, as the bodies now being recovered are in bad condition.