The Evening Bulletin

A Missouri Pacific Flyer Which Left Denver Sunday Afternoon Was Wrecked.

RAINS WEAKENED THE STRUCTURE

Engine and Five Coaches Plunged Into a River and Between 30 and 50 People Drowned.

Wrecking Trains, Undertakers and Physicians Sent to Scene Three Bodies Were Recovered Half a Mile From the Wreck.

Pueblo, Col., Aug. 8.—The Missouri Pacific flyer No. 11, which left Denver on the Denver & Rio Grande tracks for this city at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon and due to reach Pueblo at 3:15 a. m., went through a bridge at Pinon at 7:50 o'clock Sunday night. The engine and five coaches were wrecked. The accident was caused by the heavy rain which weakened the bridge.

It is reported that between 30 and 50 people have been drowned in the wreck near Pinon, many of them Pueblo residents.

A call for volunteers has been made on Pueblo and every available man is being sent to the scene. Details are very hard to obtain at this hour.

The train dropped into Fountain river. Wrecking trains have been sent to the scene from Pueblo carrying physicians.

A local undertaker has gone to the scene on the relief train, taking all the coffins and stretchers available.

A message from the Pinon railroad agent, who returned to that place late Sunday night from the scene of the wreck, said that he could find no trace of the engine and three of the cars.

He found the fireman wandering about in a dazed condition looking for the engineer and could hear the cries of the unfortunates in distress. He said that Conductor J. H. Smith, Engineer Hinman and Brakeman J. J. Turner were among the dead.

Assistant Superintendent Miller, of the Denver & Rio Grande; Superintendent R. H. Bower, of the Missouri Pacific, and a number of surgeons have gone to the scene.

The bodies of three young women, unidentified, washed down Fountain river, were found late Sunday night a half mile from the scene of the wreck. J. M. Killen, a Pueblo business man, injured, but not seriously, was washed down the river a distance of a mile, when he was enabled to crawl out onto the bank.

The prospects of recovering further bodies Sunday night seems slim. Fire Chief Ringer, of Pueblo, has gathered a force of men, who will drag the river at daylight.

Denver, Col., Aug. 8.—A special train carrying Chief Surgeon J. W. O'Connor, Superintendent of Motive Power F. Merbheimer and other Rio Grande officials, left at 12:30 Sunday night for the scene of the wreck at Pinon. No definite information has been received by the officials here beyond the fact that three cars went through the bridge. The Rio Grande people fear that the loss of life has been heavy.