Bridge Collapses

Denver, July 18 -A special to The Times from Monument, Colo., says: The oca; 'ïelght on the Santa Fe road feil ihrougü the bridge at this place, burying leneath the wruck Mrs. Albert Cooper, and a number of the Santa Fe bridge ;ang who were rebuilding the bridge. Dwenty cara are piled promiscuously od top of the victima. As near as oan be earned the local freight, loaded heavily with lumber and stone, passed upon the ridge. As the engine neared the south end the workmen underneath saw the jridge rock and shouted an alarm to their corarudes. Betore the danger could be realized the engine and twenty cars oame crashing through, burying those who could not get out of the way beneath he crushing weight. Death of the Engineer't VVIfe. Mrs. Albert Cooper, wife of the engineer of the bridge gang, was sitting in a sh;idy place under the bridge. Her husjand shouted to her, but the noiso of the train drowned his voico, and it is certain thar. sho is in tho wreek. Tljere wero about twenty men in the bridge gang and t is believed ten or twelve are under the wreek. These must certainly have been silled. The enaiueer escaped, but the Ireman, conductor and brakeman went down with tne wruek. The bridge was ïi'ty ieet high and about 3.K) feet long. Three Kil. id aud Three latiilly Hart. Latkií - Further news from the bridge disaster at .Uonuinonc shows that but three person ivuie kuled, but three others wiü die. Ti ■ nnnieusj weight of the train, bridge uinbers and stones feil on Mrs. Cooper, who had just brought her husband's lunch. Conductor Gïaze jumped and was saved, as did Fireman Frye. J. C. Uhilders, boss carpenter, saw the perll of Mrs. Oooper and jumped off the bridge to save her, and was carried under tho ruins with her. The bridge wus over a gulch known aa Dirty Woman's guión. It has always been a (rail1 siruoture and this awful catastrophe was frequently predicied. The work ot olearing the wreek is being pushed rapidly. Bu6 lor the bodies underneath the debris woald be burned. The cars are ground into splinters, aud are mixed in with heavy bridge timbers, stone and freight. List of the Casualties. The list of killed aud wounded is as iollows: Killed - Mrs. Alberc Coopar and J. C. Childers, Kansas City, Mu. ; unknown trump. Injured - Mark Wickens, engineer; Charles Gardner, brakeman, J. N. Erby, brakeman - all three fatally; James Cali, hip broken; Henry Allon, brokeu leg; Charles Rue, leg broken; Wallace Cooper, Lamar, Colo., head out and back hurt; J. W. Cole, bridge contraocor, brokeu arm; Charles Slonehouse foreman bridge gang, both legs broken H. C. Bookerc, head and shouldera cut - Sh:w, hip crushud, head cut; Chas Hallock, back hurt.