The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-22
Die BY SCORES
Forty Lives Snuffed Out in an
Instant
When Three Passenger Cars
Plunge Into a River.
BREAK THROUGH ICE
Which Cuts Off Chance of Es-
cape From Death.
Conductor Rescues Nine Through
Roof Of Dining Car.
BREAK THROUGH ICE

North Bay, Ontario, Jan. 22-Esti-
mates Of the number of person killed
when four cars of a Canadian Pacific
passenger train plunged down an en-
bankment into the ice-covered Spanish
river yesterday, vary from 20 to CO.
The official list of known dead issued
by the railway company numbers and
the injured "a.
The cars are still buried in the river
with only their ventilators showing
above the broken ice and the number
of dead which they contain may not
be known for several days, although
the railway company is making efforts
to raise the sunken cars. Eighteen of
those killed, were in the second-class
car and most of them were foreigners
whose names were difficult to ascer-
tain. 1t is known that there were 20
passengers in the first-clasS car and it
is believed that there are five bodies
in the dining car. OF the injured, four
died today and others are in a diving
condition.
The known dead are:
JOSEPH PEMAULT.
NJ. SPINKOZUM.
MIKE MIKEWYCLOUKO.
LAREDORF HOPPI
JOSE MAROTT, addresses unknown.
JOHN ROSBACK.
GEORGE MCILINEY.
WILL LAAVET2Y. North Bay, fireman.
The injured as reported by the rail-
way officials are:
Injured now at Webbwood:
Peril Nicola. Italian. scalp wound.
Jose Chance. Italian. fracture Of
skull
G. G. Mclaughlin, Angus, Ont, side
and head injured.
Mrs. H. Rogers, Winnipeg, head
cut.
J. Maher. Montreal, leg cut
G. Moore. address unknown. serious.
Injured now at Sudbury:
H. W. Wilmott, Montreal, hands and
head bruised.
Mrs. L. L. Lindall and son Harry,
Winnipeg, head injured. not serious.
Conductor Reynolds. North Bay.
head. hands and legs injured.
Thomas Paule. st. Paul. hands and
A. C. Irwin, Manistee, Mich, hip and
arm injured.
Mrs. George E. P. Dierbogen, head
and back injured, internal injuries, Sc
rious.
C. House Sault ste Marie. head cut,
serious.
Alfonso Rousel, years, Sault Ste.
Marie, head cut, not serious.
Mike Nikola, North Dakota, arm
and head injured, not serious.
L. Mcdonald, employe, Minneapol-
is, badly scalded.
E. Mansfield, Montreal, head and
internal injuries.
D. M. Brodie, Sudbury, ribs broken.
S. Ballard, st. Paul. scalded, side of
head.
H. Odsman, Norway, scalp and head
injured, not serious.
W. J. Bell, Sudbury, head and
chest injured, serious.
Joseph Doleclucle. Heron River.
Mich, shoulder injured.
I. H. Wade, abdomen and arms in
jured
R. Smith. Hamilton, right leg,
arm and head cut.
How 1t Occurred.
North Bay, Ont, Jan. 22.-At least
two scores of lives were snuffed out
in twinkliug and others have since
died from frIghtful injuries in a wreck
of the Canadian Pacific passenger
train at Spanish river. Three cars
took the terrible plunge down the
steep embankment into the icy waters
of the river.
The momentum of the train carried
the half of the second class coach with
passengers, the co1onist car. first class
car and dining car on their trucks
down the bank and into the river The
Pullman fell on it's side near the
tracks Every passenger on the half
of the second class coach, colonist car
and first class coach was drowned, and
only the most heroic efforts saved
eight persons from the diner.
Twenty-Five injured are in the Sud-
bury general hospital. several of whom
can not survive. Ten more are being
cared for at hotels.
OF the dead who have perished in
the river, It is impossible to compile
any list. and it may be weeks before
they are all known. The cars are
there with only their ventilators stick
ing out of the water.
The momentum with which they
were hurled down the bank cut a wide
swath in the ice which covered the
river to a thickness of IL inches. Even
if any persons succeeded in breaking
through the windows they were trap
ped under the ice ana never had a
chance for their lives. This is true
of half of the second class car, the
colonist car and the first class car,
from which only two are known to
have escaped, while it is said forty at
least have perished.
Great Struggle in Dining Car
In the dining car occurred one of
the greatest struggles and most SUI
perhuman efforts that men ever put
forth to save their lives. The first
call for dinner had just been made
and Conductor Tommy Reynolds of
North Bay was one of the diners.
With him was w. j. Bell. a lumber
mar of Sudbury; David Brodie, police
ma agistrate of the district of Sudbury,
an6 several others. In an instant all
Werc submerged above their heads
Reynolds exhorted his passengers to
hang on the hat racks, chandeliers and
other projections and, diving down in
the icy waters, broke through the win
dows and emerged on the outside of
the car. By the merest chance the
car had listed sufficiently to allow him
to get up between the ice and the
car. Mounting the roof, he reached in
and pulled out Alfonso Rozel. 6 years
old No axe was available and with
strength Reynolds. aid
ed by those inside, tore a hole in the