The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-01-23
AWFUL SCENE
AFTER WRECK
Relief Parties Labor During
Storm With Sad Task Al
most Hopeless.
DEATH LIST, FOLLOWING
ACCIDENT, GROWS LARGER
Fire Adds to Horrors When Canadian
Pacific Train Leaves
the Rails.

subury, Ont. JanN. % With three
big dray loads OF rough boxes wait
ing to receive the bodies os.two more
victims. the scene OF yesterday:
Canadian Pacific wreck at Spantst
River presented today an almos
field of labor for. the one hundred oI
more men sent TO clear away the de
bris and recover the victims bodies
A storm ragged all day.
Two of the wrecked cars driftec
under the bridge today and were
completely submerged. The dining
car renGfncd partly on the river
bank and partly submerged,
Little remains of the second class
coach. which was split In two when
ii struck the bridge girder and took
fire. Ice has closed over the first
class coach and the colonist car and
II is impossible to determine their
exact location More than thirty in
jured were taken to the general hos
pital and the hotels Of Sudbury.
The known dead:
y JOSEPH HEMAULL. Matheson
Ont
S. q. oUMAN, Chisholm. MINI.
NICHOLAS MCHOLANKO CHS,
holm, Mlnn.
MRS. r. EoUDE. sault Ste. Marie
NJ. SP1NKOZOUM.
MIKE WICKLIUKO.
LAREDOF HAPPI.
JOSEPH MAROTT, address un-
Known.
. JOS, ROSBACK, North Bay, Ont.
GEORGE McILHENNY, North Bay,
Ont
WILL LAvBRY. North Bay. Ont.
submerged cars may not be known
for many days.
The wreck occurred on 200-fot
steel bridge, with overhead girders.
and 30-foot embankment sloping
down to the Spanish river under
meath.
Fire Adds to Horror. -
The engine. combination mall and
baggage car and express car had
passed safely over the bridge when
the forward trucks of the second
class coach jumped the track. The
car struck an immense steel gfrdcr
with such terrific force as to snap
Rhe girdcr in two and split the car
az with cleaver. The rear OF the
second class coach sweryed to one
side pulling Jfhe colonist car. first
class coach and diner oft the bridge
into the rlser and tipping over the
Pullman Nbeside the track.
Fire added to the horror Of the ac-
cident ~
Few Survivors are in condition to
give accprate details of the accident.
3. ]. Pearce, a commercial traveller
of Toronto. who with Brakeman Nor
rison is thought to be the only sur
vNor from the first claSs coach, gave
d graphicN account of hle experienc
Mr., Pestce, finding hifpseH strug.
Cling IN water, reached tho fan light
In the end ofIhe car. broke, the glass
and screen. worked through with his
face badly cut and scratched. Run
ming along the top the first class
car he found a space of SIX feet sep,
aratlng 1t from the diner. Risking
his life on the floating ice. he almost
reached the diner when he lost his
footing and was plunged into 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 telegraph wires we're all torn
down and It WAS evident relief could
not be summoned by wire 1t was
five miles to the village OF Nairn and
the drenched survivor ran the dis
tance to deliver a report of the wreck
at the Canadian Pacific depot at
Nairn.
Meanwhile Conductor Thomas Rey-
nolds rescued eight passengers from
the sunken dining car When the
wreck occurred, Reynolds with w. j.
Bell and David Brodie, had just sat
down to dinner. Bell and Brodie
were facing the engine and Reynolds
sat opposite them. riding backwards.
The diner was the last car to enter
the water and did not sink at once.
but settled slowly while the passeng-
ers climbed up on the tables TO keep
their heads above water.
With several passengers in water
up 10 their chins. the situation was
desperate Conductor Reynolds made
a dive for a window, broke the glass
and succeeded In rising to the sur
face OF the river outside the car
With one arm on the roof OF the car
and the other on the Ice he rested
a moment
Gaining the roof OF the car. he broke
a fan light with his fist and rescued
little Alfonso Rousel of Sault Ste.
Marie Several others were taken out
through a hole broken in the roof of
the car.
It is said Mrs. Choude. aunt OF the
little boy, who was rescued, was al
most saved. with the others. but slip.
ped back into the water and was
drowned,
MISTAKE FATAL.
Denver, Colo, Jan 2-Mistaking