Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-24
MORE BODIES FROM
SPANISH RIVER WRECK
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o,+ of tho water the bodies of IA vic
Tins having been recovered. Graphing
onerations were instituted today to re
cover more bodies from the river.
The following additional list of name!
was given out today:
Patrick Kinahan, Bruce Mines, ont
| r. A. Booth, Toronto.
| Four-year- girl named PEGS
Bruce, MINI.
| Thomas Assault, Blind River.
w. ]. Robertson, auditor of the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad.
Rev. Childerhouse, North Bay, Ont
E. G. Bemmels, Lisbon, N. d.
Hiram Johnson, Montreal.
| Elderly woman, unidentified.
Two middle-aged women.
Young woman, unidentified.
-year-old boy, unidentified.
Twelve-year old boy, unidentified.
Those identified Saturday We're:
Joseph Hemault, Matheson, Ont.
S. Zouman, Chisholm, Mimi.
Nicholas Nicholanko, Chisholm
Mimi.
Mrs. C. Houde, Sault Ste Marie, Ont
NJ. Spinkoshum, Mike MikeWick
louck, Laredorf Hoppi and Jose Ma
rott, addresses unknown.
John Roseback, North Bay, Ont.
George McIlheny, North Bay, Ont
Will Lavery, North Bay, Ont.
The number of bodies lying in the
submerged cars may not be known fol
many days.
Among the passengers unaccounted
for are Rev. Mr.. Childerhouse, Sault
Ste Marie, Ont. and Auditor Robertson
of the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
The wreck occurred on a 2O0-foot
steel bridge, with overhead Orders
ard a 50-foot sloping down to the
Spanish river underneath The engine
combination mail and baggage car,
and express had passed safely upon the
bridge when the forward trucks of the
second class coach jumped the track.
The car struck an immense steel grid
er with such terrific force as to snap
the girder in two and split the car as
though it had been divided with a
cleaver The rear of the second class
coach sWerved far out to one side, pull
ing the cClOnist car, first class coach
and diner off the bridge into the river
and tipping over the Pullman beside
the track. Fire which broke out at
once in that portion of the second class
coach which remained on the right of
way, added to the horror of the acct
dent.
Few of the survivors of the wreck
were in condition today to give con-
nected account of the details of the ac
cident
B. ]. Pearce, a commercial traveller
Of Toronto, however. who with Brake
man Morrison, is thought to be the on
~ survivor from the first class coach,
gave a graphic account of his expert
ance. Mr.. Pearce was getting drink
at the water tank at the end of the
car when the crash came. Finding
himself struggling in water, but with
his head out. he reached the fan light
in the end Of the screen, broke the
glass and the wire screen, and strug-
yled through with his face badly cut
and scratched Running along the top
Of the first class car, he found a space
OF about six feet separating it from the
diner. Risking his life on the floating
ice, ne almost reached the diner when
he lost his footing and was plunged
ilto the icy water. But a projecting
pipe from the roof of the diner was
within his reach. and climbing up by
means of the pipe. he ran along the
top of the diner to the shore. The tel
egranh wires were all torn down and
it was evident that relief could not be
summoned by wire. 1t was five miles
of N,ir ho
drenched survivor ran the distance to
deliver a report of the wreck at the
Canadian Pacific depot at Marin.
Meanwhile Conductor Thomas Rey-
nolds was proving himself hero in
rescUing eight passengers from the
sunken dining car When the wreck
occurred Reynolds, with w. J. Bell and
David Brodie. had just sat down for
an early dinner Bell and Brode were
facing the engine and Reynolds sat
opposite them riding backwards. The
diner was the last car to enter the wa
tor and did not sink at once, but set
tled slowly, while the passengers
climbed upon the tables to keep their
heads above the rising waters.
With several passengers standing in
water up to their chinS the SITUATION
was desperate. Then it was that Con-
dlctor Reynolds made a dive to reach
WINDOW, broke the glass and sue
ceedcd in rising to the surface of the
river outside the car. Happily he
reached the surface where a hole in
the ice enabled him to gain solid
footing by resting one arm on the root
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 Alfonso Rousel of Sault Ste Marie
After the little boy came D. NJ. Brodie
of Sudbury. who was small enough to
pass through the fan light. Six more
passengers who We're too big to be res
cued in this manner, were taken out
through a hole broken in the roof OF
the car. It is said that Mrs. c. Houde