The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-10-30
WRECK VICTIMS
NOW NUMBER s.
GREWSOME WORK OF RECOVERY
BODIES FROM SUBMERGED
CARS CONTINUED.
A WOMAN'S BRAVE ACT
Saved Many Lives in Sundays Awful
ccident-Survivors Tell Of
Narrowing Expcrlences-49
Bodies identified.

Atlantic City. n J., Oct 29.-The
total number Of de1- in the wreck Of
lsunday Of the oRctrlc train which
while loaded With passengers, plunged
into the waterway separating this cify
from the main land is now placed at
SO.
i OF these 40 bodies have been idend-
fed, Two bodies remain unclaimed in
the mortuary and two people are
known to have been drowned. but
their bodies have not yet been recoy,
cred.
/ AT daylight today the work Of rails
| ing the submerged cars and rescuing
the bodies was begun in earnest
Scores of men worked all day with
/ splendid results. The cars have been
almost entirely lifted out of the water
and all the victims femoved
Tho work was grewsome and watch
led by thousands of morbid curiosity
seekers
Woman'S wonderful Work.
Stories Of terrible experiences are
told by those who escaped in the sub.
merged coaches. A Mrs Mcdonald, If
Philadelphia. who was in the third
car had the following to say Of her
experience:
When the cars went overheard II
"a8 Looking out of the window. It was
errible saw that we were all
doomed, and my first thought was Of
my husband The cars plunged over
and the water rushed into the windows |
and do0rWays. Fortunately | am a |
good swimmer | don't know how / /
broke my way through a window. but
/ did IT, As | rose to the surface | /
Thought Of my hu hand. ana dove
down III The faint hope that could |
reach him | went down and down |
and finally grabbed hold of a body. /
I came up with it, but discovered that
| had rescued some other man and |
he got safely ashore dove twice
more, and each time ! brought up n |
strange man, The fourth time went
down reached my husband and sue.
ceeded in landing him safely ashore"
Mrs. Mcdonald is now at the home
# Mr.. and Mrs T V Townsend on
Pennsylvania avenue in this city. and
her husband is with her. Both are
bruised and suffering from the shock.
Trainmen Tells of Wreck
j. S, Deford, a trainman who was
m the meadows about fifty yeards
rom the bridge when the accident oc
said:
Il was looking out of my bunk win
low and noticed the electric express
Is it entered on the bridge. As look. q
I'd I saw u give a twist and the next i,
instant | saw the whole train go over
nto the water At this time the tide {,
lad just started to run In. ! hurried v
ore TO do whaf ! could and caught
wo dead bodies and saved one man.
LAS we were working hard the tide =
egan 70 rise and The cars. which first ,
howed the tops Of their roofs, grad
ally d disappeared. I can well imagine q
AN H'lIIbl' 0Ndlt vi dHdlIS lUdi tAlSt
d within he cars | saw woman's i,
and sticking out through the wenti'a.
Or in the roof Of the first car and the
i2ht alomst made me faint There
tere hatr. coats umbrellas. and every ,
ort Of wearing appeared floating on
be surface,
Night Stops Rescue Work. r
1T was not long before crowds be-
an TO arrive. and the work of rescue
mmonccd Charles Kessler a local =,
merchant. was the first =
IAN 10 jump in and act as leader. He =
'izcd an axe and began TO hack away =
{ the top Of The car trying 10 lberate y,
DO passengers lie could not make -
uch headway however. l.,
"Aobut thi. time John Co0ney. = a.
yer arrived and hastily donned his y,
wing suit and went down and made =,
survey Of he situation. and tried to
reaz he windows and pull ont the
,d 'es " was dark by tbs tiub and
q had To- quit As the electricity was o.
lut oE. We could get no electric lights =,
work by. and the wrecling crew y.
al -u work as best they co. ID