Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-01-27
FORTY OR FIFTY KILLED AND
SCORES HURT ON THE CANA.
DIAN PACIFIC RY.
TRAIN RACES DOWN GRADE
Two Coaches Carry Their Victims to
Bottom Of Ice.covered Stream.
Cars Which Remain on Bank
Catch Fire and Burn.

Sault ste. Marie, Mich.-It is
NOW believed between 40 and so
PERSONS were killed in Fridays wreck
Of jtrain No. z on the 500 branch of
thb Canadian Pacific railroad on the
bridge crossing the Spanish river 80
mHes from Sudbury, Ont.
THE train records show that when
tie train left Sudbury at noon there
we're approximately 100 persons
aboard.
Thirty bodies have been recovered
and many more are known to be in
khe tourist car. An unknown number
fWere burned.
Many Of the injured will die and it
Is possible that the total death list will
reach close to so.
The exact number of dead will not
be known for several days. Divers are
exploring the Spanish river, into the
icy waters of which three of the seven
cars of the train plunged. In the burn
ed wreckage OF the four other cars
undoubtedly are the bodies Of many
others.
Tram TIlL an run bIEN9Ss
The, train was made up of locomo-
tive, mail and baggage car, express,
second-class coach, colonist car, first
class coach, diner and sleeper. The
spanish river bridge is an iron
structure and the heavy train struck
1t while going down grade at a high
rate of speed. AS the train was cross
4 ing the bridge the trucks of the sec
ond-class car jumped the track, pre-
sumably from a broken rail. The car
vas cut in two against the abutments,
so great was the momentum Of the
train.
One-half of this car, with the colo
mist car, first-class coach and dining
car, were hurled into the Spanish
river, crashing through the ice and
being swept half across the stream.
The Pullman broke from the rest
Of the train and toppled down the
bank on its side.
Within a few minutes from the
line the three cars fell into the river,
bodies began to float to the top. Sub
marine divers sent from the city in a
special train are now at work on the
river wreckage, but iEis not yet stat
ed how many bodies they have re-
covered.
Conductor Thomas Reynolds Of
North Bay was the hero of the wreck.
To his nerve and bravery eight pas
sengers owe theft lives. He dived in
the icy water, smashed window Of
the dining car crawled through and
rose to the surface, then tore the roof
! from the car and liberated the pas
sengers imprisoned within.
Entire River Bed to Be Searched.
The entire bed of the river will be
searched, as some of the bodies may
have floated a great distance.
M 1t was several hours after the wreck
before efficient relief could be sent to
the scene, and the sufferings Of the
victims in the meantime was such as
10 drive many Of the uninjured almost
Insane.
Physicians finally reached the scene
from this city, Sudbury, Espanola and
North Bay and a wrecking train from
the latter town was hurried to the
place with General Superintendent
Sutelius aboard.
1t is left to the imagination to pic
ture whether those who were trapped
in the cars that plunged into the river
and drowned without any chance OF
escape suffered worse fate than
those pinned in the wreckage Of the
forward cars, some of whom were in
Generated in the flames that started
soon after the cars went down the en-
oankment.