The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-29

my way through a window, but I did it As l rose to the surface I thought of my husband, and dove down in the faint hope that 1 could reach him. l went down and down and finally grabbed hold of a body. l came up with it, but dis covered that l had rescued some other man, and he got safely ashore. I dove twice more and each time l brought up a strange man. The fourth time I went down I reached my husband and sue ceeded in landing him safely ashore"
 Mrs. Mcdonald Is now at the home of T. Y. Townsend on Pennsylvania avenue in this city, and her husband is with her Both are badly bruised and suffering from shock.
 J. S. Deford, a trainman who was on the Meadows, about fifty yards from the bridge, when the accident occurred, said:
 "I was looking out of my bunk window and noticed the electric express as 1t entered on the bridge. AS I looked I saw it give q twist and the next instant I saw the whole train go over into the water. At this time the tide had just started to run in l hurried over to do what I could, and caught two dead bodies and saved one man.
 Tide Begins to Rise.
 "As we were working hard the tide pe- gan to rise and the cars which first showed the tops of their roofs gradually disappeared. I can well imagine the hor- rible state of affairs that existed within the cars. I saw a woman's hand sticking out through the ventilator in the roof of the first car and the fright almost caused me to faint. There were hats, coats, um- brellas and every sort of wearing apparel floating around on the surface"
 All the hospitals and police stations were immediately appealed to, and every Tax- flpl. t,al t1atn md DI wagon was hurried to the scene. Physi- cians, policemen, firemen and civilians re- sponded to summons for help.
 After the injured had been removed and cared for the rescuers turned their at tenton to the dead and before midnight fourteen bodies had been taken out of the water The first five bodies were placed a special car and conveyed to the passenger station in this city. Here a crowd of several thousand persons collected and as soon as it became known that some of the dead had been brought here there was a frantic rush to look at them. With difficulty the police held the crowd in check and the bodies were taken to a nearby fire house and finally to the several undertaking establishments.
 Subsequently all bodies were taken in charge by the police and as soon as they were identified they were turned over to the undertakers. The unidentified dead were removed to the morgue. When it became evident that the bodies could not be reached by the use of grappling irons divers were sent for and upon their arrival the work of removing the dead was renewed. A derrick and hoist ing engine were also brought into service, and late tonight efforts are being made to raise the submerged cars bodily. Will Investigate Cause.
 Coroner Gaskill declared late tonight that he would probe the cause of the wreck to the bottom and place the re- sponsibilty where 1t belongs.
 l "I arrived at the drawbridge," said the coroner, shortly after the accident oc- cured. With MT. Atterbury, I made a | thorough inspection of the tracks. The railroad officials claim to be at a loss to ] explain the cause of the wreck. Several i important facts were brought out. I,found l the end of the drawbridge tracks higher j than the end of the other tracks. Con- sequently it was impossible for train