Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-01-23

just sat down 10 dinner Bell and
Brodie were facing the engine ana
Reynolds sat opposite them and rid
ing backwards The diner was the
last car TO enter tho water and did
not sink at once, but settled slowly
while the passengers climbed unon
the tables to keep their heads above
tho rising water
With several passengera standing
IN water up TO their ohins. the situa-
tion was desperate. Then Il was that
Conductor Reynolds made q dive TO
reach window, broke the glass and
succeeded in rising To the surface of
the river outside the ear. Happily he
reached the surface where hole In
the ice enabled him to gain q solid
footing. BY resting one arm on the roof
Of the car he broke a fan light with
his fist and rescued little Alfonso
Rousel Of salt ste Marie. After the
little boy came d. NJ. Brodic of sud-
bury who was small enough TO pass
through the fan light.
Six more passengers were taken out
through the hole broken in tho roof
Of the car.
II IA said Mrs. G Houde, aunt of the
little boy who was rescued, was all
most saved. with the others, but step
ped back into the water and was
drowned.
Eleven bodies had been recovered
up to $50 y. m, and ii is believed that
there are thirty-five or forty still IN
the submerged cars.
Robert Burroughs Of Montreal said
regarding the wreck:
MY first intimation OF anything
wrong was the pounding on the tracks
OF the Pullman trpcks. When tho
Pullman went down the embankment
| was thrown into a corner, stunned
and covered with debris, fxtrieating
myself / went down the ear, cinging
to the seats.
Leaving the car we climbed the EN-
bankment to the second colonist car
which by this time was blazing We
could hear the shrieks of women and
children inside Men tried to uuench
the flames by throwing snow and
hands were burned and blistered as
they tried TO tear away the burning
timbers but their efforts were futile
flames rose into roar the cries died
away. Az the foot of the embankment
half the diner and the roofs of two
other cars were visible An was silence
there.
I'VE returned to thc Pullman to
help remove the injured little boy
wrapped in blanket was handed to
me to pass in As | took him the
wind blew the blanket open The
child was terribly cut, but conscious.
/ said to him, Are you In much pain
and he replied NO, Tn all right but
mamma is in the water, and his lips
began TO CULVER
The diner was so solidly frozen In
the ice that you might have thought
it had been there all winter" said one
passenger from the delayed sudbury
train, Il passed there about midnight.
The dining car was visible to about
the bottom of the ventilator The rest
was submerged and the ice had frozen
solid about It.
Il was speaking to one OF the
brakemen on the wrecked train and
he said that when the smashed colon-
st ear started to burn on the trestle
work OF the bridge. parts Of bodies
kept dropping through onto the ice
Il never heard such terrible cries
rs when those ears went over the
bank l shall never forget II as long
Is | live" said Conductor Reynolds
\ put the killed at between As and
30. The first coach carried about 80
N 40 passengers and Of this number
)nly one man escaped"