Re: Garfield Monument

It starts at the bottom of page 55. However, to save time:

" Ours was a harsh, grim country, particularly along
Cumbres Pass and through Toltec Gorge. I wonder
if the monument still shows against the granite at the
mouth of the tunnel in Toltec Gorge? The monument
was erected in memory of a tragedy that happened
the first year the narrow gauge operated over the
pass.
Pop Lyman was engineer on a four-car passenger
train that day. A gang of section men had been
working on the track on the west side of the tunnel.
The investigation which was held later brought out
the fact that the section foreman had elevated the
rail on the wrong side of a sharp curve. When Pop
Lyman hit the curve his engine and the baggage car
went around it. But the next two coaches turned
partly over. The rear coach snapped loose from the
Miller hook and dropped more than a thousand feet
to the bottom of Toltec Gorge, where it smashed to
pieces on the edge of Los Pinos Creek. Thirteen
persons were killed. The railroad erected the monu-
ment on which was inscribed the names of the victims.
The wreckage was never picked up and remnants of
it probably may still be seen."