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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 24, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 34.

The Eden Train Wreck

One of the most terrible train wrecks in the history of the country occurred at Eden, near Pueblo, Colo., on the evening of August 7, in which the engine, tender, baggage-car, and two crowded passenger-cars plunged through an undermined bridge into a raging torrent below. The current carried the cars with their drowning occupants far down the stream.

Only three persons escaped from these cars alive. The fireman escaped from the engine, but the conductor and engineer were killed. Two sleepers and a dining-car were stopped on the brink of the precipice by the quick action of a colored porter at the brakes. As it was, the forward end of one of the sleepers projected over the bank. Heavy rains had sent down a torrent that undermined one of the piers of the bridge. Seventy-six persons are known to have perished in the wreck, and forty missing passengers are believed to be dead.