The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-25
TRAIN IN RIVER;
Is OR MORE DEAD
Passengers on Canadian Pacific
Trapped in Submerged Cars.
MANY CRUSHED OR BURNED
East-bound Train Plunges Down EN-
bankment to River--Car Burns,
With Injured Unable to Escape
Broken Rail Caused Accident.

North Bay, Ontario. Twenty-Five
persons and perhaps twice that num-
Der were killed when four cars of a
Canadian Pacific passenger train on
the $500" Branch leaped from the
tracks and tearing down steep en-
bankment plunged through the ice
covered surface of the Spanish River.
Some were drowned, others crushed
to death in grinding timbers. Worst
of all, the manned and crushed caught
in the wreckage of one of the cars
were burned to death.
The exact number of dead and in
jured is unknown, but according to
stories told by injured passengers
brought to Sudbury it was the worst
accident in the history of Canadian
railroads.
The injured who we're taken to
Sudbury Hospital include:
Thomas Parrish, st. Paul, Mimi;
Mrs George P. DER, Boissevaen,
Mimi; Mike Nilxola, Max, N. D.; L.
Mcdonald, Minneapolis, Mimi; e.
Mansfield, Montreal, injured Internal
ly; D. M. Brodie, police magistrate,
Sudbury, Ontario, ribs fractured;
Samuel Billiard, ST. Paul; A. Odes-
man, Norway; w j. Bell, Sudbury,
Ontario, manager Spanish River Pulp
and Paper Company, injured head and
chest; Joseph Deeluch,. Erin River,
Mich; J. H. Wade, Sudbury, Ontario;
r. Russell, Hamilton, Ontario.
The train wrecked was known as
No. Z, en- route from Montreal to
Sault ste. Marie and Minneapolis.
An official statement given out here
says that it probably was due to a
broken rail
The engine, baggage, express, mail
and one second-class car remained on
the rails, while one second-class, one
first-class, a dining car and sleeper
went down the embankment. The
6rst-class car and diner went into the
river The sleeper and second-class
ear stopped on the embankment, the
second-class car catching fire.
The wreck occurred about thirty
seven miles west of Sudbury, where
the tracks cut into the side of a steep
hill, which is skirted by the river. The
forward part of the train passed over
the break, whatever it was, in safety.
The day coach, which was the
fourth from the end 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 car
ried the car down the hill in terrific
plunge. About twenty-five passen-
gers were in this car, and it is practi-
cally certain that none escaped.
The second-class car, the next in
the train, smashed against the end of
a culvert, or small bridge, and was
crushed like an eggshell. Some of the
passengers were killed outright, but
others, caught in the wreckage, which
almost Immediately burst into flames,
were roasted to death before they
could be rescued. The stanch con-
struction of the dining car saved its
occupants.
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
were hurried to the scene from Sud-
bury, and a wrecking train with Gen
eral Superintendent Gutulius made
record time from North Bay A diver
was brought on a special train from
Sault Ste. Marie to recover the bodies
from the submerged car
Mrs. Haude, of Sault Ste Marie,
died soon after her removal from the
debris.