The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-23
Nearly Forty Persons Lose Their Lives Under the Ice
 In Spanish River
MANY RESCUED THROUGH
 DEEDS MOST HEROIC
Three Coaches Are Tipped Into the River With Their Living Freight and Many Are Drowned
 Like Rats.

Sudbury, Ont, January 22-Wfth
 three big dray loads of rough boxes waiting to receive the bodies of uu
 ward of two score victims, the scene of yesterdays Canadian Pacific wreck at Spanish river, presented today an almost hopeless field of labor for the hundred or more men sent to clear away the wreckage and recover the victims bodies. A blizzard ragged all day down the valley of the Spanish river with blinding snow and bitter cold.
 Two of the wrecked cars, the Solonist car and the frst-elass coach. whose ventilators were visible above the wa ter this morning. drifted under the bridge during the day and finally were completely submerged. while thick ice has formed above them, making 1t diff ficult to locate them. The dining car is partly submerged in the river and little remains of the coach. which took fire.
 More than 80 injured were taken to the general hospital and the hotels of Sudbury.
 Ahe Huinper or bodies ly1ng In the cars may not be known for many days. Among passengers unaccounted for arc Rev. MT. Chailderhouse. Sault Ste Ma rife, Ont. and auditor Robertson of the Canadian Pacific railroad. ts
 High Steel Bridge.
 zhe wreck occurred on a 2Oo-foot steel bridge with overhead girders ard
 Q so-foot smbankment sloping down to
 the Spanish river underneath. The ss, zine and three cars had passed safely
 upon the bridge when the forward
 trucks of the secondrclass coach
 Jumped the track and struck an i'm
 nense steel girder with such terrific force as to snap the girder in two and
 split the car as If divided with a cleav- swerved far out to one side, pulling
 the colonist car, first-class car and
 diner off the bridge into the river and
 tripping over the Pullman beside the track.
 Fire broke out in the second-class car and added to the horror of the &C.,
 cident.
 B. J. Pearce of Toronto was getting a drink at the water tank at the end of the first-class car when the crash came. Finding himself struggling In the water but with his head out, he l reached the fan light in the end Of
 the car, broke the glass and the wire screen and struggled through with his face badly cut and scratched. Risking his life on the floating ice he almost reached the diner when he lost footing and was plunged into the icy water. But projecting pipe from
 the roof of the diner was within his
 reach. and climbing up by means oe the pipe, he ran along the top of the diner to the shore.
 Wires All Torn Down. The telegraph wires were all torn down and 1t was five miles to the vil- lage of Nairn, but Pearce ran the dis tance to deliver report of the wreck
 at the Canadian Pacific depot there. Meanwhile Conductor Thomas Key holds was proving himself hero in
 rescuing eight passengers from the sunken dining car. When the wreck occurred Reynolds was at dinner. The diner was the last car to enter the water and did not sink at once but settled slowly while the passengers
 climbed upon the tables to keep their heads above the rising water. With several passengers standing In water up to their chins the situation was desperate. Then it was that Reynolds
 made a dive to reach a window, broke
 the glass and succeeded in rising to the
 surface of the river outside the car. Hap
 oily he reached the surface where q hole in the ice enabled him to gain solid footing by resting one arm on the
 roof of the car and the other on the ice. Gaining the roof of the car he broke a fan light with his fist and rescued lit-
 tie Alonso Roudel of Sault Ste Marie. After the little boy came D. M. Brodie
 of Sudbury, who was small enough to
 pass through the fan light. Six more passengers who were too big to he rss- cued in this manner were taken out through hole broken in the roof of the car.
 It Is said that Mrs. C. Houda, aunt of the little boy who was rescued, was almost saved with the others but she slipped back into the water and was drowned.
 Death List Growing. Eleven bodies had been recovered up to 830 o'clock and 1t Is believed that there are B or 40 still in the submerged cars
 Robert Rowe of Montreal said: When the Pullman went down the embankment I was thrown into a cor-
 ner, stunned and covered with debris. Extricating myself. I went down the car, clinging to the seats as I went. found woman on the floor pinioned un- der a seat. I tried to sxtrlcate her, but
 she was hopelessly pinned under 1t. She
 asked for her husband. After making
 her as comfortable as possible we left the car and discovered the body of her husband, who had been killed. In re- turning to her we found that she had died in our absence. ri54 Leaving the car again. said tho sur viver i've climbed the eknbankment te | the second colonist car, which by this time was a blazing Are. We could hear 1 the piercing shreks of women and chill 1 dren inside. Men endeavored to extin- 1 guish the fire by throwing on snow and