Chaffee County CO Archives Obituaries.....Howard, W.P. November 16, 1904 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sheron Faynor nitwittwin@hotmail.com January 3, 2008, 1:33 am Morning Oregonian November 17,1904 Wrongly Taken For Tramps Men Killed While Stealing A Ride Belonged To Prominent Families Denver,Nov 17.,- A Republican special from Canon City,Colo., says that two bodies taken from a wrecked Rio Grande freight train at Salida yesterday, and supposed to be those of tramps, were identified as W.P.Howard, and George H.Mackay, both of Ames,Ia. The men, who belonged to prominent families, had been spending the summer in Colorado, and having run short of funds, decided to steal a ride home.They accordingly hid away in the vacant ice compartment of a refrigerator car. The train to which the car was attached was wrecked and the car in which the men were concealed took fire. The men were suffocated. Identification was effected through a memorandum book found on Howard. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/chaffee/obits/h/howard3nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cofiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb