The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1910-01-28
NuMBER WHO pERfSHEO NJ THE
spANssH RIVER DISASTER
YET Unknown
TWO CARS slip UNDER ICE
BODIES or IMPRISONED VICTIMS
CANNOT BE RECOVERED
FOR MANY DAYS

Sudbury, Onr. Jan with three
big dray loads OF rough toxes waiting
TO receive the bodies OF upwards of
two score victims. the scene of yester-
days Canadian Pacific wreck or span
ish river presented To-Day an Almost
hopeless field Of asor fer the hund-
red men sent TO clear away the wreck
and discover the bodies. A blizzard
ragged all day.
During the day two OF the wrecked
ears-the eolonisr car and the first
class coach, whose ventilators we're
visible above the water iris morn
ing. drifted under the bridge and were
completely submerged
Little remains Of the So ond-class
coach. which split when IT struck the
bridge gir1er and took FIRE. The ice
it was impossible TO determine their
location. More tran thirty in
jured were brought here.
The number OF bodies in the sub
AA@y A>A 0C y to3
many days. Among the passengers
u-naccounted for are Rev. Mr.. Glider
house Of Sault Ste. Marie. and Audi
tor Robertson Of the Canadian Paci-
&c.
When the wreck occurred the en-
CINE, combination mail car. baggage
car and express car hal passed safely
upon the 800 foot bridge when the
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coach jumped the track. The car
struck the immense steel girder with
such force that IT snapped the girder
in two and split the ear as though di-
yiGed with q ~cleaver. The rear OF the
second-class coach swerved far TO one
side, pulling the colonist car. the
hrst-class coach n TIE diner of the
bridge into the river. III ping over the
Pullman beside the track. Fire In a
portion of the se~cond-class coach.
which remained on the right-of-way
added TO the horror.
B. j. Pearce, a commercial traveller
Of Toronto, and Brakeman Morrison
are thought to be the only survivors
from b frst-class coach. Pearce was
getting a drink OF water at the end of
the coach when the crash came. He
reached the fan light. broke the glass
and wire screen and str grled through
with his fare badly cut and ratched.
He struggled along the floating car
and was plunged into the water. but
eventually he reached the shore via
the dining car. hen ran FIVE miles 10
Nairn and delivered the report of the
wreck at the station.
Conductor Thomas Reynolds heroi-
cally rescued eight PASSENGERS from
the sunken dining car wherein he
also was imprisoned. The diner set
tied into the water slowly and nas-
sengers climbed upon tables to keen
their heads above the rising water.
Rev mold dove to reach a window.
broke the glass and succeeded in ris-
ing to the surface outside. On gain
ing the roof OF the car he broke a
fan screen and rescued D, NJ. Brodie
or Sudbury and his child. Six
others who were too big to
be rescued in this manner were
taken out through a hole broken in
roof of the car.
Eleven bodies were recovered up to
tonight. 1t is believed thirty-fva Or
forty are still in the submerged ,ars.
Il never heard such terrible cries
as when those cars went over he
bank; | will not forget il as long az
| live said Conductor Reynolds. Il
put the killed at between forty and
NIFTY. The first coach carried about
tbirty-hve or forty passengers. OF
these only one man escaped"