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Douglas Daily Dispatch
Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona
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The Denver & Rio Grande Railway's Scenic Limited train derailed near Salida, Colorado, plunging into the Royal Gorge, killing 30 and injuring 50 as the engineer rounded a curve at 40 mph.
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Thirty deaths and injury to 50 was the toll of this wreck of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway's "Scenic Limited" near Salida, Colo. The locomotive, a baggage car, two coaches and a Pullman plunged from the rails to the bottom of the Royal Gorge as the engineer attempted to round a curve at 40 miles an hour. This NEA Service picture, rushed to the Douglas Dispatch by airplane and fast mail, shows in an extraordinarily graphic manner how the cars piled up in the Arkansas river alongside the right-of-way.
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Near Salida, Colo.
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thirty deaths and injury to 50
Event Details
The wreck of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway's "Scenic Limited" occurred when the locomotive, a baggage car, two coaches and a Pullman plunged from the rails to the bottom of the Royal Gorge as the engineer attempted to round a curve at 40 miles an hour. The cars piled up in the Arkansas river alongside the right-of-way.