Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-22
FORIY.F|VE ARE
KNOWN DEAD IN
CANADIAN WRECK
Investigation OF Spanish River
Disaster Shows Terrible
Loss of Life.

NORTH BAY. Ont. Jan 1.-The
horror Of the wreck of the Canadian
Pacific passenger train at Spanish
River yesterday afternoon grows as
the hours pass. At least two scores
OF lives were snuffed out in a twinllling
and others have since died from fright
ful injuries. Not one ear. as at first
reported, but three took the terrible
plunge down the steep embankment
into the icy waters OF the river.
Wnen the train left Sudbury at noon
it carried in the neighborhood OF one
hundred souls. The train WAS made
up as follows: Engine mail and bag
gage car express, second-class coach,
colonist, nrst-class coach. dining car
and Pullman.
Spanish River is thirty eisht miles
from Sudbury. The railroad at that
point cuts into the side of hill and
crosses the river over an iron bridge.
The bridge was approached at ran
rate of speed, and the engine, mail,
baggage and express cars were on the
structure. For reasons not yet ascer-
tanned the trucks of the second-class
coach jumped the track. 1t struck the
bridge abutments and split in two as
clean as though done with a huge
cleaver. The momentum of the train
carried the half of the second-class
coach, with passengers, the colonist
car, first-class car and dining car, OH
their trucks. down the bank and into
the river The Pullman fell over ON its
side near the tracks,
Plunge 10 Death.
Every passenger on the half of the
second-class coach, coloniSt and the
first-class coach were drowned, and
only the most heroic efforts saved eight
persons from the diner. Estimates By
| railroad men and survivors place the
loss of life al forty-five although il
must be admitted that it is hardly pos
sible to arrive at anything like an ac-
curate conclusion, even after twelve
hours of the most heroic work.
Twenty-Five injured are in the Sud
bury General Hospital, several of whom
cannot survive. Ten slightly hurt were
able to go to hotels The following il a
complete list of those at the hospital
their injuries being of every conceiya-
BILE nature:
H. ID. Wilmot, Montreal, commercial
traveller; Mrs. Lindell. Winnipeg; Harry
Lindell Winnipeg; Thomas Parrish
colored, waiter on diner. st Paul; A
Irwin, Manistee, Mich; Alfonso Rousel
8 years old, 500, Ont; Mike Hicola
Max, North Dakota; Al Mcdonald, Min
neapolis; w. Lansfield Montreal; San
Dollard, st. Paul; II. Odeman, Norway
Joseph Doboluck, Erin River. Mich; r
s. Smith. Hamilton. Ont; Mrs. George
| L. DER, Bozeman, Mont; =. J. O'Brien
Randall. Man; Mrs. c. Houde, 500
Ont. (since died); H. Johnson. traveller
Bellevue; j. NJ. Wade, Sudbury; d. II
Drodie. police magistrate, Sudbury; w
j. Bell, lumberman, Sudbury. very
serious; p. j. Pearce, commercial trav
eler, Toronto; Mr.. and Mrs. Brown
London, Ont; G. A. Martin, CONNER
cial traveller Waterloo, ont.
! 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 IS are there
with only their ventilators sticking ou
of the water. The impact and mo-
mentum with which they were hurled
down the bank cut a wide swath il
the ice, which covered the river to 6
thickness of twelve inches. Even 1
any person succeeded in breaking
through the windows they were
| trapped under the ice and never hao
chance for their lives. This is true
of half of the second class car, tn,
colonist car and the first-class car
! from which only two are known Il
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