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68) Tragedy at Eden
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c1971
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An account of the catastrophic events that occurred on the night of August 7, 1904, at Bridge 110-B, near Eden, Colorado, on the mainline of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, often referred to as the "Eden Wreck."
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"Villages where Legends Lived.History has demonstrated that early pioneers tamed the wilderness, and founded villages along the Purgatoire River and nearby canyons of Las Animas County in Southern Colorado. Since the 1860s, over 30 settlements of different ethnic groups dotted the Purgatoire River Valley between Fishers Peak and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. In 1866, the Colorado Territorial Legislature recognized Las Animas County as separate from...