The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-01-22
Horrors of Canadian Pacific
Wreck Grow More Appall-
ing All the Time
E)RTH DAKOTA MAN AMORc
THOSE INJURED IN WRECK
Twenty Are Known to Have Died and
Many More Are Probably Under the
Ice of the River Through Which thu
Cars Plunged. .,; a.

North Bay, Ont, Jan. 22.-The fjor>
ror Of the Canadian Pacific passenger
train at Spanish river yesterday aft.
ernOon grows as the hours pass. AT
least two scores of lives were snuffed
out In the twinkling of an eye and
many others have since died from the
frightful injuries. Not one car, as at
first reported, but three, took the ter
rible plunge down the steep embank-
ment into the icy waters of the river.
The train, when it left Sudbury. at
noon, carried in the neighborhood Of
100 souls. 1t was made up as fol-
lows: Engine, mail and baggage car.
express, second class coach, colonist.
first class coach, dining and Pullman.
Spanish river is thirty-eight miles
from Sudbury. The railroad at that
point cut into the side Of the hill and
crosses the river over an iron bridge.
The bridge was approached at a fair
rate of speed, and the engine, mail,
baggage and express cars were ON the
structure. For reasons not yet ascer-
tained, the trucks of the second class
coach jumped the track. The coach
struck the bridge abutment and was
split in two as clean as though with
a huge cleaver. The momentum Of the
train carried half of the second class
coach with its passengers, the colon
list cars, the first class car and the
dining car on their trucks. down the
bank and into the river. The Pullman
fell over on its side near the tracks.
Caught like rats in trap, every
passenger on half of the second class
coach, the colonist car and the first
coach. was drowned, and only the
most heroic efforts saved eight per-
sons from the diner.
Estimates by the railroad men and
survivors place the loss Of life at
forty-five, although it is hardly pos
sible to arrive at anything like an
accurate conclusion. Twenty-Five in
jured are in the Sudbury general
hospital. Several Of them cannot
survive. Ten more are being cared
for at the hotels.
Among the injured is Mike Nicola.
Max. N. D. Of the dead who perished
in the river it is impossible to COM
pile any list and it may be weeks be-
fore all are known.
The cars are there with only the
ventilators sticking out Of the water.
With such force were the cars hurled
down the bank that they cut wide
swath in the twelve-inch thickness of
any persons succeeded in breaking
surely trapped under the ice, and
This is true of half Of the second
class car, the colonist car and the
first class car, from which only two
are known to have escaped. while It
is said that forty at least must have
perished.
In the dining car occurred one of
the greatest struggles. The first call
for dinner had just been made, and
Conductor Tommy Reynolds Of North
Bay was one of the diners. With
him was W.. ]. Bell, a lumberman of
Sudbury. David Brodie, police mag
istrate of the district of Sudbury, and
several others. In an instant all
were submerged above their heads.
Reynolds exhorted his passengers to
hang on the hat racks, chandeliers
and other projections and diving
lown in the ice chilled waters, broke
through the windows and emerged on
he outside of the car. BY the merest
chance, the car had listed sufficiently
% allow him to get up between the
ice and the car. Mounting the roof
le reached in and pulled out little AL
onso Rousel, 6 years old of 500, Ont.
md Police Magistrate Brodie, small
nan, and with desperate strength
Reynolds aided by those inside tore
| hole in the roof through which
eight passengers made their escape.
They were all that came alive out of
he mater with the exception of
Brakeman Morrison. who was on the
ear of the first class coach, and all
Unknown man who also managed to
each the surface.
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