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SDAY. JANUARY IS. 1U05* **ITUS-LY-uilesi-ime the rhe oe-I it ?re-hls vas for 'es-but er-aceewateor-fa-na-,er-jn-jb-uldits3P-Don Ida the da, ted j af- I 1a- | ns, to err)TRAINS COLLIDE HEAOONBlBad Wreck on the Sant|i Fe, in WhichFive Persona Xt^e Killed, Near |Wagon MoWttJt N. M*Las Vegas, N. M., Jan. 14.—Santa Fe | passenger train No. 4. the California i limited, collided headon with a freight Dl train early yesterday ’ thirty miles south of Raton, N. M. Several members of the p-ain crew were killed, among them a fireman on the limited, i A barber was also killed. Many of the passengers were badly bruised and cut. j The trains met in an ifnusually heavy fog, and neither engine crew had an y ! PF warning of their danger before they j came together. The engine crews did : not have time to jump. *Both engineers I were injured. i SyiThe dead: iA. M. COCHRAN, flrefrian, of Raton,N. M.PHIL FREINENSEHNER, barber on ! composite car.O. GRUENEERGER, of Raton.A late report from Wagon Mound states that five persons in all were killed, but no additional names were . ee given. A. score are known to have of been injured. amPecuniary Losses Great. \The wreck is one of the worst that ^'?1lt; has ever occurred on the Las Vegas I of division of the Santa Fe system, both I in the way of casualties and pecuniary . tun loss. The trains met o|i a long hill in I I^n a dense fog. The passenger train, j which had the right of way over the ^ freight, was bowling along at forty miles an hour. The freight was de- ‘ scending the incline ,and also was making fast time in an effort to reach Tipton before the limited arrived. *sThe impact of the two trains was ^ terrific, and wreckage ’from the two engines, baggage and express cars and * OM freight cars was hurled into the air ,r- 1 in every direction. Both engines are almost totally ruined, 'and the track and right of way is piled with debris. ‘ 1,1 The passenger train was heavily , tf‘e laden and the occjjpums of the tars ,nlt;1 were hurled from their seats and berths with great violence. A ma- ’’ jority of them sustained bruises by be- ^1US ing thrown against th£ sides of the ncars and the seats. tMany of thetn ailt; c were cut about the heads and fates ^by pieces of glass frorrif the car win- tnk dows, which were shattered into thou-sands of fragment^. *The engine crew of the limited, ow - niir ing to the dense fog, could not see the ;iP freight until it was too late to jump. Util Engineer AJJison in a flash closed his Uu) throttle afYd applied the airbrakes, but the train, was under such tremendous .It speed that no earthly power could replt; stop It. bef»The wrecked passenger train was tnai the eastbound California limited, made irai up entirely of Pullman cars. The din- T ing. compartment and baggage cars the were smashed, but the-sleepers were sen not much damaged. Traffic was an- Tex
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Carroll Herald
Carroll, Iowa, US
Wed, Jan 18, 1905
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