Call NumberZ-8755Date1900-1910SummaryViews of a Denver and Rio Grande Railroad wreck in Eden (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows workers, spectators, a crane, and Dry Creek and men on an overturned passenger car surrounded by water.Physical Description1 photomechanical print : halftone ; on sheet 38 x 27 cm (15 x 10 1/2 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectDry Creek (El Paso County)Eden (Colo.)Hoisting machinery--Colorado--EdenMaintenance and repair--Colorado--EdenRailroad accidents--Colorado--EdenSpectators--Colorado--EdenStreams--Colorado--EdenDenver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--DisastersGeographic AreaDenver (Colo.)CollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR711008755Type of MaterialIllustrationsHalftone photomechanical printsTear sheetsNotesCaption reads: "One of the worst railroad wrecks in the history of the county occurred on August 7, near Eden, Colorado, when the "World's Fair Flyer" on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad ran into an abyss through a bridge over Dry Creek, which had been washed away. More than eighty persons lost their lives by the accident. The engine and first three cars of the train fell into the stream below, and only a few of the occupants escaped. The passengers in two sleeping cars which remained on the track were uninjured."; Image on verso of tear sheet has not been digitized: "A snapshot of Hon. William F. Sheehan, Chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee, and Hon. Martin Littleton, who delivered the speech nominating Judge Parker at St. Louis, from stereograph copyright 1904 by Underwood & Underwood, New York."; Tear sheet consists of page 1312 removed from an unidentified publication. Title printed on tear sheet. R7110087550
Photographs of the recent disastrous wreck on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (1900-1910). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 07/02/2026, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1131009
