New-York tribune., 1910-01-22
MANY DIE IN WRECK
REPORT OF IS KILLED
md % INJURED.
Cars Fall Into RiUer on 600"
Branch of Canadian
Pacific.

NCrthbay. Ont, Jan. 21.-At least a
score and perhaps twoscore people we're
killed this afternoon, when four cars of
a Canadian Pacific passenger train on
the 500 branch leaped from the tracks
and, tearing down a steep enbankment.
plunged through the ice covered surface
Of the Spanish River.
Some were drowned Others were
crushed to death in grinding timbers.
Most terrible of ali. several of the
MANNED and injured were caught in the
wreckage of one of the cars and burned
to death
The exact number Of dead and in
jured was still unknown here at a late
hour tonight as telegraphic communica-
tion has not yet been established with
the scene of the wreck, but according
TO stories told by injured passengers
brought to Sudbury it was one of the
worst catastrophes in the history of
Canadian railroads. One report states
that the dead number forty-eight and
the injured ninety-two
The train wrecked was known as No.
q running from Montreal TO Sault Ste.
Marie and Minneapolis, An official
statement given out here says that it
probably was 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. a dining car and a sleeper went
down the embankment The first class
car and diner went into the river. The
sleeper and second class car 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 mo-
mentum carried the car down the hill
in a terrific plunge. About twenty-five.
passengers were in this car, and it is
practically certain that none escaped
Two minutes after the first crash only
the roof of the day coach showed above
the flowing ice in the river The second
class car the next in the train. smashed
against the end of culvert or small
sized bridge, and was crushed like an
sssShaI
Some of the passengers We're killed out
right, but others caught in the wreck
age, VIII h almost Immediately broke
into flames. were roasted to death before
they could be rescued.
The stanch construction of the dining
car saved it's occupants 1t followed the
day coach TO the very brink of the river,
but every one on board escaped without
serious injury. The sleeper turned over
on it's side on the embankment. There
were only some members 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 second class
car, and the train crew and uninjured
passengers did some heroic work in try
ing to rescue those pinned in the burn
ing wreCkage.
Physicians were hurried to the scene
from Sudbury as soon as word was re-
ceived and a wrecking train, with Gen
eraI Superintendent Gutulius. made rec
ord time from North Bay Arrange
ments were made to bring a diver on a
special train from Sault Ste Marie to
recover the bodies from the submerged
car. and he is now at the wreck with a
diving outfit
There is some disparity in the esti-
mates of the number of passengers in the
submerged car. Members of the train
crew say there were not more than ff-
teen, but passengers who had Just left
1t to go into the dining car place the
number as high as twenty-five
1t is said that six of the injured taken
to the Sudbury Hospital have since died.
but their names are not obtainable.