The Penn's Grove record., 1910-01-28
TRA IN RIVER;
Is Or MORE DEAD
Pass. gers on Canadian Pacific
Trapped in Submerged Cars.
MANY CRUSHED OR BURNED
East-bound Train Plunges Down EN-
bankment to River-Car Burns,
With Injured Unable to Escape
Broken Rail Caused Accident.

East-bound Train Plunges Down En-
bankment to River-Car Burns,
With Injured Unable to Escape
Broken Rail Caused Accident.
North Bay, Ontario.-Twenty-hve
persons and perhaps twice that num-
Der were killed when four cars OF a
Canadian Pacific passenger train on
the $500" Branch leaped from the
tracks and tearing down a steep m
bankment plunged through the Ice
covered surface of the Spanish River.
Some were drowned, others crushed
to death in grinding timbers. Worst
of all, the manned and crushed caught
in the wreckage of n Of the cars
were burned to death.
The exact number of dead and in
jured is unknown, but according to
stories told by injured passengers
brought to Sudbury it was the worst
accident in the history OF CANADIAN
railroads.
The injured who we're taken to
Sudbury Hospital include:
Thomas Parrish, st. Paul, MINI I;
Mrs. George P. DER. B~oissevaen,
Mimi; Mike Nikola, Max, N. D.; L.
Mcdonald, Minneapolis, Mimi; e.
Mansfield, Montreal, injured internal
ly; D. M. Brodie, police magistrate,
Sudbury, Ontario, ribs fractured;
Samuel Bullard, st. Paul; A. Odes-
man, Norway; w. J. Bell, Sudbury,
Ontario, manager Spanish River Pulp
and Paper Company, injured head and
chest; Joseph Deeluch, Erin River,
Mich; J. H. Wade, Sudbury, Ontario;
R. Russell, Hamilton, Ontario.
The train wrecked was known as
No. 7, en- route from Montreal to
Sault Ste. Marie and Minneapolis.
An official statement given out mere
says that it probably was due to a
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
frst-class car and diner ven into the
river. The sleeper and second-class
ear 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 momentum car
ried the car down the hill in a terrific
plunge. About twenty-five passen-
gers were in this car, and 1t is practl-
cally certain that none escaped.
The second-clas5 car, the next in
the train, smashed against the end OF
a ~culvert, or small bridge, and was
crushed like an eggshe'l. Some of the
passengers were killed outright, but
others, caught in the ~wreckage, which
almost Immediately burst into flames,
were roasted to death before they
could be rescued. The stanch con
struction of the dining car saved its
occupants.
Every man who was able to stand
at once turned to the work of rescue.
Snow was piled upon the burning Sec
ond-class car, and the train crew and
uninjured passengers did some heroic
work in trying to rescue those pinned
in the burning w~reckage. Physicians
were hurried to the scene from Sud-
bury, and a wrecking train with Cen
eral Superintendent Gutulius made
record time from North Bay. A diver
was brought on a special train from
Sault Ste. Marie to GOV the bodies
from the submerged car.
Mrs. Haude, of Sault Ste. Marie,
died soon after her removal from the
debris.