New-York tribune., 1910-01-23
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were taken out through a hole broken in
/ the roof of the car. 1t is said that Mrs.
| C. Houde. aunt of the little boy who was
rescued. was almost saved with the
| others. but slipped back into the water
] and was drowned.
| IN THE WRECKED PULLMAN CAR.
Robert Burroughs, of Montreal. gave
the following account of his experiences:
MY first intimation of anything
wrong was the pounding on the tracks
of the Pullman trucks. I was sitting
with General Manager Mcfarland and
we had been considering whether we
would go to the dining car.
About five minutes before this
woman who was sitting opposite left for
the dining car and she was followed by
q priest, from Blind River Both were
killed
1.-The engine mail car and baggage car
crossed all right. The first colonist car
swung across the tracks at the bridge
and was telescoped. The first half of it
remained beside the track; the other half
Ieaped into the river taking with 1T the
two coaches behind.
ptHeNc every pdsSSliSci III tucoS
cars were killed or drowned When the
Pullman went down the embankment I
was thrown into a corner, stunned, and
covered with debris.
'3Extricating myself went down the
car, clinging to. the seats. 1 found a
woman lying on the floor of the car,
pinned under seat with Mcfarland,
who was unhurt. We tried to extricate
her, but she was hopelessly pinned and
we could do nothing. She asked for her
husband. After making her comfortable
we left the car and discovered the body
of her husband, who had been killed
On returning to her we found that she
had died in our absence.
Hearing pounding on e stateroom
door at the front of the car, we broke
1t in and found a woman and her little
son. She stated that she wasn't hurt
We wanted to place her in a safe place,
but she insisted on aiding us in the
rescue work She had bad wound on
the head.
CoLoNIsT CAR IN FLAMES.
Leaving the car we climbed the en-
| bankment TO the second colonist car
which by this time was blazing. We
could hear the piercing shrieks of women
and children In the car. Men tried to
quench the flames by throwing snow.
Hands were burned and -blistered as
they tried to tear away the burning
timbers to release the unfortunates, but
their efforts We're futile. The anguished
voices grew fainter, and as the flames
rose into a roar they died away. At the
foot of the bankment half of the
I diner and the roofs of two other cars
were visible. All was deathly silence
there.
I'VE returned to the Pullman to help
remove the injured. A little boy,
wrapped in a blanket was handed to me
to pass on to the next in line AS
| took him the wind blew the blanket
open. The child was terribly cut up, but
was conscious said to him, Are you
in much pain?' and he replied, No, I'm
! all right, but mamma is in the water
and his lips began to culver.
Il saw a man making his way by the
bridge to assist fall into the river. He
was drowned
. DINING CAR FROZEN IN.
"The diner was so selidly frozen in
| the ice that you might have thought it
| had been there all winter" said one
! passenger from the delayed Sudbury
train Il passed there about midnight.
The dining car was visible to about the
! bottom of the ventilatOr. The rest was
! submerged and the ice had frozen solid
| about it. The bodies in that car will be
| frozen stiff.
Il was speaking to one of the brake
! men on the wrecked train. and he said
| that when the smashed ColoniSt car
| started to burn on the trestle work of
the bridge parts of bodies kept dropping
! through on to the ice. When I saw the
J SPOT all that was left of the coach was
! the iron trunk. The bridge itself was
! burned so badly that the passengers
from our train had TO walk across a
board over the trestle work for twenty
| yards.
| 1T was a trying experience. The wind
| was blowing at a terrific rate and it
was 90 degrees below zero. Most of US
had to carry our baggage over that little
! plank in the face of the wind. and it
! was no short distance we had to walk
Il never heard such terrible cries as
when those cars went over the bank. I
shall never forget it as long as L live"
said Conductor Reynolds ''I put the
killed at between forty and fifty. The
| first coach carried about thirty-five or
! forty passengers, and of this number
| only one man escaped"
There We're anywhere from forty-five
to eighty killed. said W. S. Bradley. of
Little Current, Ont. 1T is very hard to
| tell the exact number, because one coach
| plunged right into the river, giving no
| one a chance to escape, while another
was burned on the bridge" Mr.. Brad
ley was in the Pullman car
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