Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-08-31
Searchers After Bodies Find II
Impossible to Drag Victims
of Quebec Accident From the
Tangled Mass of Steel,
LATEST ESTIMATE PLACES
NUMBER DEAD AT 70
Engineers at Scene Of Disaster
DecIale MiscaIouIation Of
Strength of Material is Re-
SponSibIe for Catastrophe.

Quebec. Aug. 30.-~Although TWEEN
ty-four hours have elapsed since the
Quebec bridge crashed into the 81.
Lawrence river, three score Of the un-
fortunate bridge workers are still held
in the hopeless tangie OF iron and
steel at the bottom Of the deep river.
roll call today at noon confirmed
the early estimates Of the dead. Sew
enty-nine. not counting the men who
lie wounded in the Point Lewis hos-
pital. failed to answer 10 their names.
Fifteen bodies lie in the city morgue
awaiting the result Of the coroners IN
quest.
or the total seventy-nine dead and
missing sixteen are skilled American
mechanics.
some Of the bodies of the unfortun-
ate men can be seen below he SUR
face OF the water, tightly wcdgcd In
the lnextricable network Of steel.
where it is utterly impossible to reach
them
Twenty-nine Indians and nineteen
white Canadians are missing.
Although tugs and rowboats spent
the day patroling the waters over the
wrecked bridge the net result of their
work was the discovers of one pody
which was taken from the wreekage at
low tide this evening. This victim was
almost cut in two whom found, and
the body had TO be talsen nut In two
parts Another body 4 . ,cat~a near
the anchor pier. andh'in effort was
made 10 take IL out This was found
impossible however the whole lower
portion of the body being held In a
grip of steel which it was found i'm
possible 10 break.
The Dominion government has ap-
pointed Il commission consisting Of
Deputy Minister of Railroads Butler
and Collingwood Schrieber chief en-
gineer. to Investigate the cause of the
disaster. The special commission VIII
be assisted by Chief Engineer Hul-
gate. of the city Of Montreal
Several engineers visited the scene
of the accident today It was evident
they said. that there had been mis-
calculation of the tensile strength OF
the material IN some spot, and that the
weak spot had given away under the
immense strain Of the hundreds oi
thousands Of tons Of steel and that
this had AT once upset the balance
and proportion of the structure ana
caused the collapse
To-day the bridge employees were
busy looking for the bodies among the
piles of iron on the shore. Women
were sitting on the logs weeping. ana
as a body was brought ashore there
of a lost relative. As the bodies were
found they were carried To one Of the
company's buildings and from thence
taken to the morguc. The general cs-
Innate Of the dead Is seventy mine.
The estimate given ont AT the Phoenix
Bridge company's office is Canadians.
IS: Indians. 2S: Americans, u. Tn"
officials refused 10 give out any
names at present. They also state
that five Canadians, four Indians ana
three Americans are among the IN
iured al tho Point Lewis hospital
The Quebec Bridge company oih-
cials place the number of dead at sew
cnty-eight
The two piers Of the bridge appear
TO be still solid and IL - evident tha'
the accident did not gccur through the
giving away OF the masonry but seems
to have been caused by the weight ni
the iron About seven hundred lcet
of the bridge gave way.