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Albert J Mosier

Birth	:	24 Dec 1859
Death	:	7 Aug 1904
Burial	:	Sugar Grove Cemetery, Czar, Randolph County, USA
Description	:	Denver, Aug. 9 , 1904 The Republican this morning says: At the hour of going to press seventy-four bodies had been recovered and identified and the closest estimate put the total death list at 106 from the wreck on Sunday night of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, near Eden station, seven miles north of Pueblo, making of it the greatest railroad disaster that Colorado has suffered and one of the most disastrous in the history of the country. It will take days to determine the actual number of persons who perished. The wall of water that hurled itself... Read More	Denver, Aug. 9 , 1904 The Republican this morning says: At the hour of going to press seventy-four bodies had been recovered and identified and the closest estimate put the total death list at 106 from the wreck on Sunday night of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, near Eden station, seven miles north of Pueblo, making of it the greatest railroad disaster that Colorado has suffered and one of the most disastrous in the history of the country. It will take days to determine the actual number of persons who perished. The wall of water that hurled itself upon the foremost part of the train as the latter was passing over a trestle that spammed the arroyo, carried the engine, baggage car, smoking car and chair car down to the creek as if they were pieces of float, and as the two cars, crowded with passengers, began to break the bodies were caught in the flood and carried to the Fountain river, which in turn empties into the Arkansas river, and search is being prosecuted in both rivers for the dead. The train was cut in two. The two Pullman cars and dining car remained on the track, the coupling having given way as the smoking car plunged into the abyss, leaving the end of the nearest Pullman hanging four feet over the abyss. Of the hundred or more people in the two cars that plunged into the torrent, but three escaped and their escape, as was that of the fireman on the engine, was miraculous to a degree. All the others in the cars were drowned. The three who escaped did so through the roof of the smoking car being battered in as the huge wall of water that fell from the skies a few miles nearer the foot hills tossed the cars hither and thither in what was a few minutes before a dry, sandy creek. The monster engine was dragged by the water a considerable distance and one of the cars containing passengers was found almost a mile from the wreck, such was the tremendous force of the waterspout that went crashing down what was known as Dry creek. The passengers had no warning. The pilot of the engine had almost reached the end of the light trestle that spans the hundred feet of arroyos, when the full force of the wave struck it and carried with it every part of the train that was then on the trestle into the seething tide, tossing the engine and cars and rolled the over and over in its fury. Death to most of the passengers must have been sudden and in all probability painless. They were drowned. The bodies of those recovered show few bruises. But as the cars broke the dead bodies were carried on and often buried in the sand. As the train was from Denver bound for the World's Fair at St. Louis, a number of Denver people were lost; but the heaviest burden of the disaster will fall on Pueblo. The following lists indicate the number of identified dead and the missing. These lists have been compiled as accurately as possible, and have been checked up by the Denver & Rio Grande officials and those in charge of the undertaking establishments at Pueblo. It is probable that some few errors may be found, owing to the difficulty of securing correct spelling of names in some instances, which may have led to duplications in one or two instances. As the lists now stand they show a total of 106 dead, of whom seventy-four have been found and identified and thirty-two are missing. Among the dead was Al Mosier of Iliff, Colorado.

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Family Members:

Spouse

Edith Louise McMurray Lowe

(1873 - 1959)

Children

Hazle Alberta Mosier

(1897 - 1907)

Everett J Mosier

(1900 - 1916)

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