The Way it Was

100 years ago

Forty killed in railway wreck

KANSAS CITY, Mo., -- A Pueblo dispatch says that a headend collision between the Utah and California express No. 3, and a local passenger train No. 16, from Florence, Colo., took place this morning at a curving.

Forty persons are reported killed and a large number of others were injured.

Relief trains were at once ordered from Florence, Pueblo and Denver.

The wreck took fire which added horror to the scene.

The express was a double-header special Santa Fe train which company's tracks parallel the Denver & Rio Grand No. 16 supposed that the headlight of No. 3 was a Santa Fe train and No. 3 supposed that the headlight of No. 16 was a Santa Fe and did not discover the fatal mistake until they rounded a sharp curve and too late to avoid collision.

50 years ago

Sheriff investigation theft in Sheldon area

Today Vernon County Sheriff Les Hunt was investigating a burglary in a farmhouse five miles northeast of Sheldon.

Upon his arrival home from Illinois last night, Kenneth Seaton discovered that burglars had entered his farm home and stolen clothing, bedclothes, a 12-gauge shotgun and a small radio. Some of the clothing was packed in five barracks bags and two sea bags, one of which bore Seaton's name and Air Force serial number.

Sheriff Hunt said today that entrance to the house was gained by forcing the rear door, and that several trips were necessary in order to make away with the loot.

The Seatons, recently moved here from California, had been in Illinois since March 5, and no date could be set for the burglary.