Webster Ballinger is listed in the 1885 Colorado State Census, Park County, as being 16 years old and living with his uncle also named Webster Ballinger, an attorney who later died and is buried in Denver. Young Webster was the grandson of Judge Franklin and Jane Adams Ballinger of Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky.
However, according to the 1900 US Census, Webster was the son of Honorable Webster Ballinger, not the nephew, and Mary Love Morris Ballinger. Records from family members have young Webster the son of the judge and Mary.
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Webster Ballinger, FAIRPLAY FLUME, 27 Sep 1901:
"Denver, Sept. 23---Nine cars and a locomotive were practically demolished and thirteen men were injured, three of them seriously, in a wreck on the South Park line of the Colorado & Southern Railway last Saturday night. The accident occurred at Webster, a station seven miles this side of Kenosha Summit, at 11:45 o'clock, and the injured men were yesterday brought to St. Luke's hospital, this city. The seriously injured are:
Webster Ballinger, engineer, lives at 2101 Downling Avenue, Denver, nephew (son) of Representative Webster Ballinger of Park County. The lower part of his chest was crushed (also injured were John Carlson of Como and W. A. Phillips, a laborer)...
The train wrecked was No. 82, mixed freight and passenger. Besides one passenger coach there was a tool and bunk car in which a large number of laborers who had been working on the grade near Como were being brought back to Denver. The train was coming down the Kenosha Hill at 35 miles an hour when the engine left the rails. Nine cars, including the bunk car, followed the locomotive down the bank and all of them were demolished...The wrecked cars were loaded with ore and bullion from Leadville and lumber..."
However, according to the 1900 US Census, Webster was the son of Honorable Webster Ballinger, not the nephew, and Mary Love Morris Ballinger. Records from family members have young Webster the son of the judge and Mary.
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Webster Ballinger, FAIRPLAY FLUME, 27 Sep 1901:
"Denver, Sept. 23---Nine cars and a locomotive were practically demolished and thirteen men were injured, three of them seriously, in a wreck on the South Park line of the Colorado & Southern Railway last Saturday night. The accident occurred at Webster, a station seven miles this side of Kenosha Summit, at 11:45 o'clock, and the injured men were yesterday brought to St. Luke's hospital, this city. The seriously injured are:
Webster Ballinger, engineer, lives at 2101 Downling Avenue, Denver, nephew (son) of Representative Webster Ballinger of Park County. The lower part of his chest was crushed (also injured were John Carlson of Como and W. A. Phillips, a laborer)...
The train wrecked was No. 82, mixed freight and passenger. Besides one passenger coach there was a tool and bunk car in which a large number of laborers who had been working on the grade near Como were being brought back to Denver. The train was coming down the Kenosha Hill at 35 miles an hour when the engine left the rails. Nine cars, including the bunk car, followed the locomotive down the bank and all of them were demolished...The wrecked cars were loaded with ore and bullion from Leadville and lumber..."
Webster Ballinger is listed in the 1885 Colorado State Census, Park County, as being 16 years old and living with his uncle also named Webster Ballinger, an attorney who later died and is buried in Denver. Young Webster was the grandson of Judge Franklin and Jane Adams Ballinger of Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky.
However, according to the 1900 US Census, Webster was the son of Honorable Webster Ballinger, not the nephew, and Mary Love Morris Ballinger. Records from family members have young Webster the son of the judge and Mary.
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Webster Ballinger, FAIRPLAY FLUME, 27 Sep 1901:
"Denver, Sept. 23---Nine cars and a locomotive were practically demolished and thirteen men were injured, three of them seriously, in a wreck on the South Park line of the Colorado & Southern Railway last Saturday night. The accident occurred at Webster, a station seven miles this side of Kenosha Summit, at 11:45 o'clock, and the injured men were yesterday brought to St. Luke's hospital, this city. The seriously injured are:
Webster Ballinger, engineer, lives at 2101 Downling Avenue, Denver, nephew (son) of Representative Webster Ballinger of Park County. The lower part of his chest was crushed (also injured were John Carlson of Como and W. A. Phillips, a laborer)...
The train wrecked was No. 82, mixed freight and passenger. Besides one passenger coach there was a tool and bunk car in which a large number of laborers who had been working on the grade near Como were being brought back to Denver. The train was coming down the Kenosha Hill at 35 miles an hour when the engine left the rails. Nine cars, including the bunk car, followed the locomotive down the bank and all of them were demolished...The wrecked cars were loaded with ore and bullion from Leadville and lumber..."
However, according to the 1900 US Census, Webster was the son of Honorable Webster Ballinger, not the nephew, and Mary Love Morris Ballinger. Records from family members have young Webster the son of the judge and Mary.
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Webster Ballinger, FAIRPLAY FLUME, 27 Sep 1901:
"Denver, Sept. 23---Nine cars and a locomotive were practically demolished and thirteen men were injured, three of them seriously, in a wreck on the South Park line of the Colorado & Southern Railway last Saturday night. The accident occurred at Webster, a station seven miles this side of Kenosha Summit, at 11:45 o'clock, and the injured men were yesterday brought to St. Luke's hospital, this city. The seriously injured are:
Webster Ballinger, engineer, lives at 2101 Downling Avenue, Denver, nephew (son) of Representative Webster Ballinger of Park County. The lower part of his chest was crushed (also injured were John Carlson of Como and W. A. Phillips, a laborer)...
The train wrecked was No. 82, mixed freight and passenger. Besides one passenger coach there was a tool and bunk car in which a large number of laborers who had been working on the grade near Como were being brought back to Denver. The train was coming down the Kenosha Hill at 35 miles an hour when the engine left the rails. Nine cars, including the bunk car, followed the locomotive down the bank and all of them were demolished...The wrecked cars were loaded with ore and bullion from Leadville and lumber..."
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