The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-23
MANY BODIES STILL
|. At RIVERS BOTTOM.
May Be Days Before They Are
Taken From lce-Covcrcd
Water.
S URvlY0Rs TELL STORY
Crash Of Canadian Pacific Train
Attended by Horrors and
Heroism.

Sudbury, Ont, January ge.-With
three big drayloads OF rough boxes
waiting to receive tho bodies Of IN
wards of two-score victims, the scene
of yesterdays Canadian Pacific wreck
at Spanish River presented to-day an
almost hopeless field of labor for the
hundred or moro men sent to clear
away tho wreck and recover the vic.
tins bodies.
A blizzard ragged all day down the
valley of the Spanish River with a.
binding snow storm and bitter cold.
Two of the wrecked cars, the colonist
car and the first-class coach, whose
ventilators were visible above the
water this morning, drifted under the
bridge during the day and finally were
completely submerged. The dining car
remained partly on the river bank and
/ partly submerged in the river. Little
remains of the second -class coach.
which was split in two when 1t struck
the bridge girder and took fire. Ice
that will bear mans weight has
closed over the first-class coach and
the colonists' car. and 1t Is impossible
to determine their exact locations:
More than thirty injured were taken
to the general hospital and the hotels
of Sudbury.
Number still Unknown.
The number of bodies lying in the
submerged cars may not be known for
many days. Among passengers I'm
accounted for are Rev. Mr. Childer-
house. sault ste Marie. Ont, and Audi
tor Robertson. OF tho Canadian Pa
cific Railroad.
The wreck occurred on a 2oo-foor
steel bridge with overhead girdcrs and
a 3o-foot embanlment sloping down
to the Spanish River underneath. The
engine combination mail and baggage
car and express car had passed safely
trucks of the second-class coach
jumped the track. The car struck an
immense steel girder with such ter
rifle force as to snap the sirder in
two and split the car as though ii
had been divided with cleaver. The
rear OF the second-class coach swerved
far out to one side. pulling tho colon
list car, first-class coach and diner off
the bridge into the river, and tipping
over the Pullman beside the track.
Fire that broke out at onco In that
portion OF the second-class coach
which remained on the right OF way
added to the horror of the accident.
Few of the survivors OF the wreck
were in condition to-day to give con-
nected account of the details of the
accident. b. ]. Pearce. commercial
trdVeler Oh iOIOnlo, HpWcNtl'
with Brakeman Morrison, is thought to
be the only survivor of the first-ciass
COACH gave graphic account of his
experience. Mr.. Pearce was getting
drink at the water tank at the end
of the car when the crash came. Find
ing himself struggling in water, but
with his head out. he reached the fan
light In the end of the car. broke the
glass and the wire screen and strug-
gled through, with his face badly cut
and scratched. Running along the
top OF the first-class car, he found
space of about six feet separating 1t
from the diner. Risking his life on
the floating ice. he almost reached the
diner, when he lost his footing and was
plunged into the icy water. But a
projecting pipe from the roof of the
diner was within his reach, and climb
ing UP by means of the pipe, lie ran
along the top of the diner to the
shore. The telegraph wires were all
torn down. and 1t was evident that
relief could not be summoned by wiro.
1T was five miles to the village of
Marin, and the drencned survivor ran
the distance to deliver report of the
wreck at the Canadian Pacific depot ct
Nairn.