Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29

almost crazed with horror and fright.
He was bleeding from several cuts on
the head and was otherwise injured.
When asked how the accident hap
pened his only reply was, "Good God.
what is it?' When finally induced to
talk he could give no clear story.
THE STORY OF A HEROINE.
Stories. of terrible experiences are
told by those who escaped death in the
submerged coaches. A Mrs Mcdonald
of Philadelphia, who was in the third
car. had sthe following to say of her
experience: % when the cars went out
overheard 1 was looking from the win
dow. 1t was terrible. 1 saw that we
were all doomed and the first thought
was of my husband. The cars plunged
over and the water rushed into the
windows and doorways. Fortunately I
am a good swimmer The Lord only
knows how 1 broke a way through a
window, but 1 did. AS 1 rose to the
surface 1 thought of my husband and
dove down in the faint hope that
could reach him. I went down and
down and finally grabbed hold Of a
body. / came up with it, but discov-
cred that I had rescued some other
man and he got ashore. I dove twice
more and each time I brought up a
strange man. The fourth time 1 went
down 1 reached my husband and sue
| ceeded in landing him safely ashore -
/ Mrs Mcdonald is now at the home of
/ Mr.. and Mrs. T. V. Townsend on Penn
/ sylvania avenue in this city and her
/ husband is with her. Both are pretty
well bruised and suffering from shock
4 MAN WHO SAW.
/ J. $. DefOrd, a trainman who was on
I 1aa 4 1I.
/ the bridge when the accident occurred
said: 4 was looking out of my bunk
! window and noticed the electric ex-
/ press as it, entered on the bridge. As
! 1 looked / saw it give a twist and the
next instant I saw the whole train &C
over into the water. At this time the
tide had just started TO run in. / hur-
ried over to do what / could and
caught two dead bodies and saved one
man. AS we were working hard the
tide began 10 rise. and the cars which
first showed the tops of their roofs
/ gradually disappeared. 1 can well i'm
| agine the horrible state of affairs thai
existed within the cars. saw a wo-
mans hand sticking out through tn,
I ventilator in the roof of the first cal
and the sight almost caused me tC
( faint. There were hats. coats. UNI
brellas and every sort of wearing ap.
parel floating around in the water.
1T was not long before the Grove
I.began to arrive and the work of res
cue commenced. Chas. Jessler, a Ioca
commission merchant, was the frs
man to jump in and act as leader. II,
seized an axe and began to hack awal
at the top of the car. trying to liberat,
the entOmbed passengers. He coult
not make much headway. About thi.
time John Cooney, 4 diver arrived anJ
hastily donned his diving suit and Wen
down and made survey of The situ-
alton and tried TO break the windows
1t was dark by this time and he hal
to quit. AS the electricity was shu
off we could get no electric lights t,
work by and the wrecking crew had /,
work as best they could
WHAT THE CORONER FOUND.
/ Coroner Gaskil declared late tOnigh
that he would probe the cause of tn.
wreck to the bottom and place the re
spOnsibility where it belongs. q ar
rived at the drawbridge," said the cor.
oner late tonight, shortly after tn,
accident occurred. With Mr.. After
bury 1 made a thorough inspection o
the tracks. The railroad officials CLAIM
to be at a loss to explain the cause o
the wreck Several important fact
were discovered by US.
q examined the condition of tn
track where the ends of the other tract
connect and found that they did no
connect squareIy. Consequently it wa
impossible for a train travelling fas
to avoid jumping and being in DANCE
! of leaving the rails That the wheel
OF the train had hit the ends of tn