The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-23
FULL DEATH LIST
AS YET unknown
Virtually Certain That at Least
Forty Perished in Canadian
Pacific Wreck.
SCENE OF HORROR AND OF
ALMOST HOPELESS TASK
Will Probably Require Many
Days to Identify All
the Victims.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SUDBURY, Ont. Jan. 22.-Witf
three big dray loads of rough boxes
waiting to receive the bodies Of two
score victims. the scene OF yesterday 's
Canadian Pacific wreck at Spanish
river presented today an almost hope
less field of labor for the hundred OF
more men sent to clear away the debris
and recover the victims bodies. a
storm ragged all day.
Completely Submerged.
Two of the wrecked cars drfted un'
der the bridge today and were COM
plctely submerged. The dining car re:
| mained partly on the river bank and
partly submerged.
coach which was split in two when ii
struck the bridge glrder md took fire.
Ice has closed over the first-class coach
and the colonlst car and 1t is I'M
possible to determine their exact loca-
ton.
More than thirty injured were taken
to the general hospital and the hotels
of Sudbury,
The Known Dead.
JOSEPH HEMAULL. Matheson, Ont.
s. ZOUMAN, Chisholm, MINI.
NICHOLAS NICHOLANkO, Chs
holm. MINI.
MRS. C. HoUDE, Sault Ste. Marie,
M. sPINKOZOUM
MIKE WICKLOUKO.
LAREDOF HAPPI.
JOSEPH MAROTT, address un-
JOSEPH RosBACK, North Bay,
GEORGE McILHENNY, North Bay,
WILL LAVERY, North Bay. Ont.
The number of bodies lying in the
submerged cars may not be known Tor
many days.
The wreck occurred on a 200-foot
steel bridge, with overhead Orders ana
a thirty-foot embankment sloping down
TO the Spanish river underneath
Car Split in Two,
The engine, combination mail and
baggage car and express car had passed
safely over the bridge when the for
ward trucks of the second-class coach
Jumped the track. The car struck an
immense steel girder with such terrific
force as to snap the girder in two and
split the car as with a cleaver The
rear of the second class coach swerved
to one side, pulling the colonist car,
frst-class coach and diner off the
bridge into the river and tipping over
the Pullman beside the track.
of Toronto, who, with Brakeman Nor
rison, is thought to be the only sur
vivor from the first class coach, gave
a graphic account of his experience.
Experience of Survivor,
Mr.. Pearce, finding himself struggling
in wator. reached the fan light in the
end of the car, broke the glass and
screen, worked through with his face
badly cut and scratched.
Running along the top Of the first.
class car, he found n space Of SIX feet
separating 1T from the diner. Risking
his life on the floating ice, he almost
ing and was plunged into the icy
waters. But 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 were 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 distance to
deliver report of the wreck mt the
Canadian Pacific depot at Nairn.
Meanwhile Conductor Thomas Reynolds
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 slow
ly while the passengers climbed upon
tables to keep their heads above water.
Heroic Conductor.
With several passengers in water up
to their chins, the situation wns desper-
ate. Conductor Reynolds made dive
for window, broke the glass and sue
ceeded In rising to the surface of the
river outside the car. With one arm
on the roof of the car and the other
ON the ice, he rested moment. Gain
light with his fist and rescued littlo
Alfonso Rousel of Sault Ste. Marie.
Several other passengers were taken
out through hole broken in the roof
of the car.
II is said Mrs. c, Houde, aunt Of the
little boy who was rescued, was almost
saved with the others, but slipped back
into the water and was drowned
More Bodies Recovered.
Eleven bodies had been recovered up
to 6:30 p. m. and it is believed that
lheIe are IDlTLy-uVc OF IOTUy Stlll In the
submerged cars.
Robert Burroughs Of Montreal said
regarding the wreck:
My first intimation of anything
wrong was the pounding on the tracks
of the Pullman trucks. When the
Pullman went down the embankment
was thrown into a corner, stunned
and covered with debris Extricating
myself, I went down the car, cGnging
to the seats
HLeaving the car we climbed the en-
bankment to the second colonist car.
which by this time was blazing. We
could hear the shrieks of women and
children inside. Men tried to ouench
the flames by throwing snow and hands
were burned and blistered as they tried
to tear away the burning timbers, but
their effortsa were futile. The voices
grew fainter and the flames rose in
roar. At the foot of the embankment
half of the diner and the roofs Of two
other cars were visible. All was
silence there.
Heart-Breaking Scenes,
owe returned to the Pullman to helm
remove the injured. A little bow
wrapped IN blanket was handed to
me to pass on. AS took him the wind