The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1910-01-28
Rescued Passengers Tell of Agony Of
Victims in Wreck OF Canadian Pa
cifc Railroad-Divers WORK Win
Disadvantage of Ice and Cold-5O
Are Dead-30 Injured.

sent 10 CledI away bhO
cover the victims bodies. A storm
ragged all day. /
Two of the wrecked cars drifted
under the bridge and were completely
submerged. The dining car remained
partly on the river bank and partly sub
merged.
Little remained of the second-class
coach which was split in two when 1t
struck the bridge girder and took fire.
Ice has closed over the hrst-class
coach and the c~olonist car ana it is
impossible to determine their exact
location.
More than 80 injured were taken to
the general hospital and the hotels OF
Sudbury.
The engine, combination mail and
baggage car and express car had
passed safely over the bridge when the
forward trucks of the s~econd-class
coach jumped the track. The car
struck an immense steel girder with
such terrific force as to snap the beam
in two and split the car as with a
c~leaver. The rear of the second-class
coach swerved to one side, pulling the
c~olonist car, frst-class coach and
diner off the bridge into the river and
tipping over the Pullman beside the
track. Fire added to the horror of
the accident.
Fed survivors are In condition to
give accurate details of the accident.
Survivors of the catastrophe who
have reached here express the belief
, that at least rs persons lost their
lives. Owing to the circumstance sur
rounding the wreck it will be several
= DAYS before the full extent of the dis
t aster will be known.
Divers Chop Into Ice.
, Divers descended through the crust
: of ice on the Spanish river into some
: of the submerged ears. Hardy sub
> marine workers could remain IN the
frigid waters but a few moments. Their
uncovered hands were almost frozen
as they were hauled to the surface
: Working in relays in the glare of bon
: fires built at either end of the bridge
{ they chopped their way into the cars
in an effort to recover the CHASTITY
freight.
Wrecking crews are making futile
efforts to fasten chains about the car
: to hoist them from the bed of tn,
frozen stream. So fearful is the cole
and so great is the hardship faced b.
a the workers that progress is cruell,
slow.
The divers have succeeded in reach
~ - A. -,,1Iy;,- oa.,nar4v,anA &c Fhl
frst-class coach and bringing to tn
surface four bodies of travelling me-
who were playing cards at the time o
the disaster. They were frozen still
in a great block of ice when sent t
the surface and had scarcely move
from their playing positions.
At the scene of the wreck a ragin
% blizzard was wreaking its fury upo
the gangs of wreckers who were work
ing in the teeth of a bitter and BLIND
ing snow.
bo For three hours one man hung b
IN his hands to the transom of the coacl
N breathing what little air remained q
the roof of the ear, while his body wa
submerged in the water.
Robert Burroughs, manager of tn
Bell Telephone company at Sault ST
20 Marie, a passenger in the Pullman ca
in which did not go into the river, saic
er. Screams Of the Victims.
81 when the Pullman went down tn;
ct embankment and turned over I WI
or thrown in a corner, stunned an
oil bruised and covered with debris. A
around us 1 could hear the screams
ia women and children in the burni1
lip, half of the second-elass car. The
lip, were all consumed by flames"
va Burroughs declared he had to for,
er- his way through the debris in order
get out of the car.
i've Il found a woman on the floor lyiI
hip pinned under the seat,' he continue
"She tried to rise, but could not al
asked me to look for her husband.
D made her as comfortable as 1 eou
and finally found her husband dea
Inc When I returned to tell her she W
dead, too, her spine having be,
broken.
cid "When we began removing the i
ihc Jured a little boy wrapped in a blank
ted was handed up to me to pass alol
the line of As I took hi
red the wind blew the blanket aside and
in was SO horribly crushed that it W
oat hard to believe he was human. I sal
to Are you all right, little boyH' and
yer answered cheerfully, yes, I'm feelil
fine; but my mother is down there
the the water
II saw one man make his way frc
ere the c~olonist car to the bridge, app.
of emily unhurt. He e~ndeavored to wa
ave a little farther ON. but fell FROM /,
-ov- bridge and was drowned
Ium Woman Shows Fortttude.
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