Dotsero, Co Train Wreck - No More Dead; Injured, Missing

FIND NO MORE DEAD

COLORADO WRECK VICTIMS HELD TO ORIGINAL NUMBER.

INJURED MAY ALL RECOVER

HOPE ENTERTAINED OF NO FURTHER FATALITIES.

Confusion Straightened Out and More Identifications Made – DR. and MRS. OLSON of Axtell Among Killed.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo., Jan. 17.- The confusion following upon the wreck at Dotsero is gradually being straightened out. The track has been entirely cleared and traffic resumed without interruption. The debris resulting from the wreck, thrown to one side, while searching for bodies and clearing the track, is to be searched carefully a second time for bodies. The work is being directed by General Manager Ridgeway of the Denver & Rio Grande. There have been no deaths among the injured since yesterday and more hope is entertained for the recovery of those in serious condition. There were 136 passengers on the train and most of them are accounted for. It is known that a number proceeded on their way without being reported. Some of the unknown dead have been identified today. All the men have been positively identified in nearly every case. The railway officials were greatly assisted in this by the Associated Press report.

George Maham Is Missing.

George Maham of Princeton, Ind., is missing. His wife is one of the seriously wounded and in no condition for give a description. She insists that her husband and father, Henry Dunn of St. Louis have been among the dead.

The telegraph office here has been flooded with dispatched from anxious relatives addressed to supposed passengers on the wreck train. In many instances the railway people are able to give addresses where the persons can be found, but there are a number of names which do not appear among the list of passengers. Following is a report of the condition of some of the injured:

W.O. Vineck, Denver, traveling for Omaha firm, fracture left leg; extensive lacerated wound right thigh, fractured rib; serious condition.

John Rosseau, Cleveland, O. contused wound forehead.

No statement has yet been obtained from Engineer Gus Olson of the passenger train. He will not be well enough to talk for several days and until then the investigation as to the blame is at a standstill. The members of the coroner’s jury, after viewing the bodies, returned home last night.

Coroner Gilpin will hold the inquest when Engineer Olson is able to give his evidence.

DR. and MRS. OLSON Dead.

Axtell, Neb. Jan 17 – DR. ORVILLE A. OLSON and MRS. OLSON, who were killed in Glenwood Springs wreck in Colorado were both old time citizens of this county. DR. OLSON was thirty-five years of age and his wife about thirty. Dr. OLSON has no living relatives in this community with the exception of a stepmother, Mrs. Mary E. Nelson, who lives two miles north of Axtell. He graduated from Rush Medical college, and after a general practice for four or five years at Hildreth, decided to go to a larger field. He was on his way to Spokake, Wash., with that idea in mind when the accident occurred.

MRS. OLSON’s father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Nyquist, who live near Axtell have heard nothing from her, and are of the opinion that she must be dead of too seriously injured to send them a telegram. Mr. and Mrs. Nyquist have five or six other children married and settled on farms of their own in the vicinity of Axtell. The entire community is much stirred up over the sad affair, as DR. and MRS. OLSON, as well as their people, are well known and are very highly regarded.

News reached here tonight that the two-year-old by of the Olsons was rescued alive, but with a broken leg and other injuries.

The Nebraska State Journal, Lincoln, NE 18 Jan 1909