Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
Second Glass Car Strikes Bridge
Girder and is Split in Twain.
CONDUCTOR SAVES EIGHT LIVES
Passengers in Diner Are Standing in
Water Up to Necks.
DIVES THROUGH A WINDOW
Man in Charge of Train Reaches Top
of Car and Helps Occupants to
Safety-Identity of Vic-
Tins Not known.

SUDBURY Ont, Jan. 22-with three big
drayloads Of rough boxes waiting to re-
| ceive the bodies of upwards OF two score
Victims, the scene of yesterdays Canadian
| Pacific wreck at Spanish river today pre-
sented an almost hopeless field Of labor
for the hundred or more men sent to clear
away the wreck and recover the victims
| bodies. A blizzard ragged all day down
the valley of the Spanish river.
Two of the wrecked cars, the colonist
car and the flrst-claSs coach, whose ven-
tilators were visible above the water this
morning, drifted under the bridge during
the day and finally were completely sub
merged The dining car remained partly
on the river bank and partly submerged
in the river. Little remains OF the second
class coach, which was split in two when
1t struck the bridge g1rder and took fire
Ice that will bear a mans weight has
closed over the first-class coach and the
colonist car and it is impossible to deter
nBne their exact lochtion. More than
thirty injured were taken TO the general
hospital and the hotels of Sudbury.
The known dead:
JOSEPH HEMAULT, Matheson, Ont.
S. ZOCMAN, Chisolm, MINI.
NICHOLAS N1CHOLANKO, Chisolm.
MINI.
MRS. c. HoUDE, sault ste. Marie, Ont.
NJ. SPHINX OZUM.
MIKE WYCLOUKO.
LARDOF HAPPI
JOSE MAROTT addresses unknown).
JOHN RoSBBACK, North Bay, Ont.
Ont
WILL LAvERY, North Bay, Ont.
The number of bodies lying in the sub
merged cars may not be known for many
days Among passengers unaccounted for
are Rev Mr.. Childer House, Sault Ste.
Marie, Ont, and Auditor Robertson of the
Canadian Pacific railroad.
The wreck occurred on 90o-foot steal
bridge with overhead girders and thirty
foot embankment sioplng down to the
Spanish river underneath.
The engine, combination mail and bag
gage car and express car had passed safely
upon the bridge when the forward trucks
OF the second-class coach jumped the
track. The car struck an immense steel
grder with such terrific force as to snap
the girder In two and split tho car az
though 1t had been divided with cleaver.
The rear end OF the second-ciass coach
swerved far out to the end, putting the
colonist car, first-class coach and diner
off the bridge into the water and tipping
over the Pullman beside the track Fire
communicated to the first-class coach
which remained on the right-of-way, and
added to the horror of the accident
Few Of the survivors Of the wreck were
in condition today to give accurate details
Of the accident.
Experience OF n Drummer.
B. j. Pearce. a commercial traveller OF
Toronto, who. with Brakeman Morrison
is thought to be the only survivor from the
rgf In
Of his experience Mr. Poarce was getting
drink at the water tank at the end of
the car when the crash came. Finding him
self struggling in water but with his head
out, he reached the fanlight in the end OF
the car, broke the glass and the wire screen
and struggled through with his face badly
cut and scratched.
Running alone the top Of the fIrst-claas
car, he found a space OF about six feet
separating 1t from the diner. Risking hts
life on the floating ice, he almost reached
the diner when he lost his footing and was
plunged into the icy water But q project
ing 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.
he telegraph wires were all torn down
and It was evident that relief could not
be summoned by wire. 1t was five miles
to the village of Hairn and the drenched
survivor ran the distance TO deliver a report
OF the accident at the depot.
Conductor Saves Eight.
Meantime Conductor Thomas Reynolds
was proving himself a hero in rescuine
eight passengers from the sunken dining
car. When the wreck occurred REYNOLDS.
n onA n
sat down to dinner Bell and Brodie were
facing the engine and Reynolds sat oppo-
site them, riding backwards. The diner
was the last car to enter the water ana
did not sink at once, but settled slowly
while the passengers climbed upon the
tables to keep their heads above the rising
waters
With several passengers standing in water
up to their chins the situation was desper-
ate. Then 1t was that Conductor REYNOLDS
made dive TO reach a window broke the
glass and succeeded in rising to the surface
Of the river outside the car Happily he
reached the surface where a hole in the
Ice enabled him to gain a solid footing by
resting one arm on the edge of the car
and the other on the Ice. Gaining the roof
OF the car he broke a fan Hight with his
fist and rescued little Alfonso Rousei OF
Saulte Ste. Marie. After the little boy
came d. M. Birdie of Sudbury, who was
small enough 10 pass through the fan light.
Six more passengers. who were too big to
be rescued In this manner, were taken out
through hole broken in the roof OF the
car.
II Is said that Mrs. c. Houde aunt OF the
little boy who was rescued, was almost
saved, but slipped back into the water and
was drowned
List of Injured.
The Injured in yesterdays wreck as re-
ported by the railroad officials are:
Perri Nicoli, scalp wound
Jose Chance fracture OF skull
O. O. Mclaughlin, Angus, Ont. head in
ured.
Mrs II. Rogers. Winnipeg, head cut.
Joseph Maher, Montreal leg cut
G. Moore address unknown, seriously
lurt.
II. w. Wilmott, Montreal, bruised.
Mrs J.. Lindali and son Harry vVf0ni