Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-01-23
Those Who Escaped from
Canadian Pacific Disaster
Tell Grim Story of Death in
Flames and Icy River.
HlEARTRENDING CRIES OF
OF DOOMED PASSENGERS
Caught in WreCkage Unfortu-
mates Roast Alive While Ter
ror Stricken Survivors Work
in Vain to Save Them.
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Sudbury, Ont. Jan k2.-Witn three
big dray loads OF rough boxes wait
ing to receive the bodies of about two
score victims, the scene of yesterdays g
Canadian Pacific wreck at Spanish
river presented today an almost hope
less field Of labor for the hundred or
more men sent to clear away the
debris and recover the victims bod
les
A storm ragged all day down the
valley of the Spanish river.
Two of the wrecked cars drifted
under the bridge during the day and
finally We're completely submerged
The dining car remained partly on
the river brink and partly submerg-
ca.
Little remains of the second class
coach which was split in two when it
struck the bridge girder and took fire
lee has closed over the first class
coach ana the colonist car and it is
impossible to determine their exact
location.
More than thirty injured We're taxi
en- to the general hospital and the
hotels OF sudbury
The known dead:
JOSEPH HEMAULL, Matheson,
Ont.
$. zUMAN. Chisholm, MINI.
NICHOLAS NlcHOLANKO. Chis-
holm, Mimi.
MRS c HouDE, sault ste. Marie,
Ont
M. SPINKOzTrM
MIKE MICKLOUKO.
HAPP1
JOSEPH MARoTT, address un-
known.
JOHN RosEBACK. North Bay
Ont
GEORGE McILHENNY, North
Bay. Ont
WILL LAVEBY, North Bay, ont.
The number of bodies lying in the
submerged cars may not be known for
several days.
The wreck occurred on 200 foot
steel bridge with overhead girders
and thirty foot embankment sloping
down to the Spanish river underneath.
The engine. combination mail and
baggage car and express car had
passed safely over the bridge when
the forward trucks of the second
class coach jumped the track The
cars struck an immense steel girder
with such terrific force as to snap the
girder in two and split the car as
though 1t had been done with the
cleaver. The rear of the second class
coach swerved far out To one side,
butting the colonist ear first class
coach and the diner orr the bridge in
to the river and tipping over the Pull |
man beside the track.
Fire added to the horror Of the ac- 1
cident.
Few Of the survivors of the wreck /
were in condition today to give accur- /
ate details Of the accident
r. ]. Pearce commercial traveller |
Of Toronto. however. who with Brake !
man Morrison is thought TO be the I
only survivors from the first class /
coach, gave graphic account of his
experience.
Mr.. Pearce. finding himself strug
Cling in the water, reached the fan
light in the end of the car. broke the
glass and screen, and struggled
through with his face badly cut and
AuDiluE tiNIa tilt up VI tiif ii1A
class car. he found n space about six
feet separating it from the diner
Risking his life on the floating ice. lie
almost reached the diner when he lost
his footing and was plunged into the
oy water. A projecting pipe from the
room on the diner was within his
reach and climbing up by means Of
he pipe. he ran along the top Of the
liner TO the shore.
The telegraph wires were all torn
iown and it was evident that relief
.ould not be summoned by wire. II
vas five miles 20 the village OF Nairn
md the drenchcd survivor ran the
distance to deliver report of the
wreck at the Canadian Pacific depot
It Nairn. Meanwhile Conductor
Thomas Reynolds rescued eight pass
,ngers from the sunken dining car.
When the wreck occurred. Reynolds,
With W. J. Bell and David Brodie had u