The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-22
TWENTY OR MORE
PERISH IN WRECK
Four Loaded Passenger Cars
Jump Track. Fall Through
Ice Into River.
DISASTER ON CANADIAN
PACIFIC NEAR SUDBURY
Some Who Are Not Drowned
Burned to Death or Crushed
in Smashup.

NORTH BAY. Ont. Jan. 21.-At least
a score. and perhaps two score, people
were killed today when four cars of a
Canadian Pacific passenger train on the
500 branch jumped from the track and,
falling down steep enbankmcnt
plunged through the ice into the Spanish
river. Some were drowned, others were
burned. almost within hand reach OF tho
drowned; still others were crushed TO
death. One OF the srlntered cars was
burned on the brink OF the river,
The number OF dead and injured was
unknown late tonight. as telcgraphic
communication was not established at
the scene OF the wreck According 10
stories told by injured passengers
brought 10 Sudbury. it was one OF The
worst catastrophcs in the history of
Canadian railroads
The wrecked train was en- route from
Montreal 10 Sault Ste. Marie and Mime
apois. An official statement SAYS that
the accident probably was due To a brok-
en- rail.
Down Steep Embankment.
The engine, baggage. express and mail
cars and one sccond-c class coach re-
manned on the rails, while one second
class. one hrst-Ciass. 4 dining car and
sleeper went down the cmbankment.
The first -class car and the diner went
into the river. The sleeper and second
class car stopped on the embankment,
the second-class car catching fire.
The wreck occurred thirty-sevcn miles
west or sudbury, where the tracks cut
into the side OF steep hill sllirted by the
river.
The forward part Of the train passed
over the break, whatever il was. The
DAY coach, the fourth from the end OF
the train, was the first to leave the
rails.
The train was running at forty miles
an hour, and the momentum carried the
car down the hill in n terrific plunge.
About twenty-five passengers were In
this car and II is practically certain that
none escaped.
One Coach Submerged
TWO minutes after the FIRST crash only
the roof OF the day coach showed above
floating ice In the river The second
class coach smashed against the end OF a
culyert and was crushed like an esg
shell some passengers were killed out
right, but others were caught in the
wreckage, which broke into flames. and
were roasted TO death
The strong construction OF the dining
car saved its occupants.
II followed the day coach to the brink
OF the river, but every one in it escaped
without serious injury.
The sleeper turned over on its side
on the embankment
Several OF the train crew in the sleep
CT escaped with slight injuries. Every
man who was bic 10 stand turned to the
work of rescue. Snow was piled on the
burning second class coach. and the train
crew and the uninjured passengers did
some heroic work in trying to rescue
those pinned in the burning wreekase.
Work of Rescue.
Physicians were hurried from Sudbury
as soon as word was received, and
wrecklng train with General Supcrintend-
cnt Gutulius made record time from
North Bay. Arrangements were made
TO bring diver on a special train from
saul, Ste Marie TO recover bodies from
wreck The injured. taken TO Sudbury
hospital. include the following;
Thomas Parish. 81. Paul.
Mrs. George p. Biere. Bcissevain, Minn,
Mike NIkola Max, y. D
l., NJ. Donald. Minneapolis.
Z. Mansfield Montreal injured inter-
nally-
d. NJ. Brodie, police magistrate, Sud
bury.
Samuel Bullard. St Paul.
\. O. Odessman, Norway.
w J. Bell. Sudbury.
Joseph Deelcuch. Erin River Mich. 3d..
j. II. Wade Sudbury.
Il. Russell. Hamilton. Ontario.
Details Conflicting.
From the crew Of a freight train which
arrived here tonight, il is learned thai
two sccond-claSs coaches were dcIailed
and afterwards took fire, Eighteen per-
sons are said To be dead. and II is
thought most of the injured were in these
two cars The crew OF the train arc all
North E;ay residents.
II is also reported j. J. Anderson, dis
trict passenger agent Of the Canadian
Pacific railroad, was on the train. II
is expected a train made up AT The scene
of lhc wreck will arrive here early to-
morrow morning.
There is some disparity of the esti-
mates OF rhe number Of passengers in
the submerged car. Members OF the
train crew say there was not more than
fifteen, but passengers who had lust left
II 10 20 into the dining car place the
number as high as twenty five.
The nearest telegraph station to the
scene of the wreck is Nairn, five miles
from the Spanish river bridge
II is said six of the injured taken to
the Sudbury hospital have since died. but
Railroad men. who arrived here after
midnight. say that at least forty pey