Pando, Colorado Train Wreck
September 8, 1915
ONE DEAD, 49 HURT IN
D. & R. G. WRECK
FIREMAN PINNED UNDER CAB; COOKED BY STEAM FROM
LOCOMOTIVE.
Freight hits express
ENGINEER SERIOUSLY BURNED, AND PASSENGERS
BRUISED, AT TENNESSEE PASS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Leadville, Colo. ---
ELMER JOHN, fireman, was killed,
and WILLIAM KING,
engineer, was seriously burned, forty-three
passengers and six other trainmen hurt, when a
D. & R. G. helper engine crashed head-on into a
double header express train near Pando,
Wednesday morning. One engine was thrown upon
its side; the ends of two steel cars were
crushed and about sixty feet of track was torn.
The place where the accident happened was upon a
piece of track laid on a high bank 200 feet
above the stream, and, had the cars been thrown
from the track, the resulting casualties would
have been frightful.
JOHN was
caught under the engine that left the track and
was cooked by the steam from the boiler. Aid was
speedily given him and he was extricated, but he
died while on the way to the hospital at Salida.
Information given here is that the crew of the
engine, which was a freight train helper, is to
blame. The helper engine is one which aids the
engines of regular trains to pull their loads
over the heavy grades in this mountain division.
Passenger Train No. 20, which is one of the
crack trains operated from Salt Lake City by the
Rio Grande, connecting with the Western Pacific
line from the coast, was filled with tourists
home bound from the Panama Pacific Exposition.
Among the Coloradoans injured were
JAMES R. DONALDSON,
IRENE B. DONALDSON, L. E. ARMSTRONG, J. RAYSVILLE
and
O. A. EVERS of Denver, and
B. F. BENSON, BERTHA C. NORRIS and MARY R.
NORRIS of Colorado Springs.
Range Ledger Hugo Colorado 1915-09-11
Submitted & transcribed by Stu
Beitler Thank you,
Stu!
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