The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-22
.L|vESBLOTTED.OUT
IN RAILWAY WRECK
Two Score People Per
ish in Water or
Flames.
DEATH INFLICTED
In HORRIBLE FORM
Canadian Pacific Train Leaps
Down Steep Embankrnent
and Hurls Itself Into Ice
Covered River-Full Ex-
tent Of Disaster Not
Yet Known.

North Day, Ont, January 21.-Dentb
In NIL Its most terrible forms bIotted
out the lives of mt least a score, and
perhaps two score, people this after.
noon. when four cars Of Canadian
Pncifc pnssengcr train on the 500
branch lcnpcd from the tracks, aud,
tearing down steep embankmcnt,
plunged through the ice-covercd sur-
face of the Spanish River. Some were
drowned, others were crushed to death
In grinding fnlbers. Most terrible of
all. malmed and Injured caught in the
wrecknge of one OF the cars were
burned to death.
The e1nct number Of dead ana In.
1ured were sull unknown here Mt
late hour Tonight, as tcleErnphic COM
municntion has not yet been cstnbllsh-
ed with the scene of the wreck, but
according to stories told by injured
passengers brought 10 sudbury, 1t was
one OF the Worst catnstrophes in the
history of Canadian railrOndtnE.
The train wrecked was known M
No. ., en- route from Montreal TO Sault
! Ste Marie and minneapolis. An official
abatement given out here says that 1t
| WINS probably due to broken rail.
The engine, baggage, express. mail
| and one second-class car remained on
| the rails, while one second-class, one
| first class. dining car and g. sleeper
| went down the embnnkment. The
| first-class car and diner went into the
river. Tho sleeper and second class
car stopped on the embankment, the
second-ciass car catching fire.
| The wreck occurred about thirty
| seven miles west of Sudbury, where
the tracks cut into the side OF steep
hill, which is skirted by the river.
The forward part OF the train passed
l.oyer-the <break, wha atnrer3 IL was safe
I ly. The day coach, which was near
| the engine Of the train, was the first
| to leave the rails.
| The train was running at the rate
of about forty miles an hour, and the
momentum carried the car down the
hill in terrific plunge. About TWEEN
| ty-fve passengers were in this car.
I and 1t is practically certain that none
escaped.
| Death Comes Quickly.
| Two minutes after the first crash
only the roof of the day coach showed
above the floating ice in the river.
! The second-class car. the next In the
train. smashed against the end of a
cu1vcrt and was crushed like an ess
she'll. Some OF the passengers were
killed outright, but others. caught in
the wreckage. which almost Immediate
! ly broke into flames, were roasted to
death before they could be rescued
The staunch 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
| Elm bankment. There were only some
| me mbers Of the train crew in the
sleeper at the time. and they escaped
with slight injuries.
Every man who was able to stand at
once turned to the work of rescue.
Snow was piled upon the burning sec
ond class car. and the train crew and
uninjured passengers did some heroic
work in trying to rescue those pinned
in the burning wreckage. Physicians
We're hurried TO the scene from Sud.
bury as soon as word was received, and
Il wrecking train, with General Super-
intendent Gutulius, made record time
from North Bay.
Full Extent Not Known.
Sault Ste Marie, Mich, January 21.-
Though 1t isimPossible to secure names
of the dead and injured and details of
the Canadian Pacific wreck on the 500
branch of that line. near Espanola, this
afternoon, 1t is asserted here that for
ty-cight lives were lost and ninety-two
passengers injured.
According to reports the rear por-
tion of q Yves stbound train was derailed
by broken rail on the bridge over the
SnnniSh A a n
dining car were submerged. it is said,
in the stream. All of the killed are
thought to have been in these cars.
a special relief train, with sub
marine diver aboard left the 500 at
8 o'clock tonight for the scene of the
wreck. Until the diver reaches the
submerged cars none of the bodies OF
the dead can be rescued nor tho names
of the victims secured.
y part of the injured We're trans
ferred to sudbury on snecial train.
where they are being cared for. Es-
pamela, the scene of the accident, is
i1io miles cast of the 500.