Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-01-22
MANY KILLED
IN BIG WRECK
Greater Part of Train on
Canadian Pacific Goes
Through a Bridge.
DEBRIS CATCHES FIRE
Fifty Passengers Either
Roasted Alive or Drowned
in Terrible Disaster.

Sault Ste Marie, Mich, Jan. 22.-
Later dispatches say that fifty or
more persons were killed and nearly a
hundred were injured in the disaster
to the Minneapolis and Montreal ex-
press on the $500" branch of the Ca
madam Pacific railroad near Webb
wood, Ont.
Some were drowned, others were
crushed to death IN grinding timbers.
Most terrible of all, MANNED and in
jured passengers caught in the wreck
age of two of the cars were literally
roasted alive.
The greater part of the train went
through a bridge on the ice covered
Spanish river short distance west of
Sudbury.
The dining car, said to contain twen-
ty people, and the first class coach,
with about forty passengers in 1t,
We're entirely submerged
Only few persons escaped alive
from these cars, it is reported.
Struggle to Get to the Doors.
The disaster occurred while the din
ing car was well filed. Those who es-
capped told of terrible struggle to get
to the doors as the cars settled into
the water.
The train was running at the rate of
about forty miles an hour, and the
momentum carried the cars down In a
terrific plunge.
Two minutes after the first crash
only the roof of the day coach showed
above the floating ice In the river.
Several bodies fioated from it and were
recovered. The second class car, the
next In the train, smashed against the
end of culvert and was crushed.
Some of the passengers were killed
outright, but others were caught in
the wreckage, which broke into flames,
and were roasted to death before they
could be rescued.
The stanch construction of the din
ing car saved its occupants. 1t fol-
lowed the day coach to the very brink
of the river, but every one on board
escaped without serious injury. The
sleeper turned over on its side on the
embankment. Only members of the
train crew were in the sleeper at the
time, and they escaped with slight in
juries.
Two of the Cars Take Fire.
Two of the cars which did not go
into the river caught fire, and many
injured passengers were roasted to
death before their more fortunate fel-
lows could rescue them.
Relief parties rescued ninety-two of
the injured, and they we're transferred
to Sudbury, where they are being
cared for in a railroad hospital.
Every man who was able to stand
aided in the work of rescue. Snow
was piled on the burning second class
cars, and the train crew and uninjured
passengers did heroic work in trying
to rescue those pinned in the burning
wreckage.
Physicians were hurried to the
scene from Sudbury as soon as word
was received, and a wrecking train,
with General Superintendent Gutelius,
made record time from North Bay.
Divers at Work on Submerged Cars.
DlNtrS are HOW at WOIk Try ulB W
bring up bodies from the submerged
coaches.
The cause of the wreck is said to
have been a broken rail on the bridge
According to one report, the train left
the track on the bridge; another says
that 1t broke through the bridge.
Auxiliaries have been rushed to the
scene from every direction. The ma
1ority of the dead are boxed in the
coaches. which lie at the bottom of the
river
The two coaches lie in the ice COW
cred river, only their roofs showing
above the surface of the water.
Wildwood, village of 500 inhabit-
ants, in the Argoma district of Onta-
rio, is on the SudburySault Ste. Marie
branch of the Canadian Pacific, 4SS
miles west of Montreal 1t is situated
on the Spanish river, which a few
miles below the village flows into Lake
Huron.
Sudbury. to which town the injured
were taken, is forty-three miles east
Of Webbwood and has $500 inhabit-
ants.
NOTICE.