Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-01-28
SCORE OR MORE
DIE IN WRECK
PASSENGERS ON CANADIAN PA.
cIFlc CRUSHED, DROWNED OR
BURNED TO DEATH.
PLUNGES OVER EMBANKMENT
One Car Goes Through Ice Into River
and One Smashes and Blazes
at Once-A Broken Rail
Brings Destruction.

Marin, Ont.-The icebound Spanish
river has begun to give up it's
dead. The first-class car, one of
the four of the Canadian Pacific pas
senger train which took the plunge
down the embankment, has been
raised above the surface of the river.
With one end suspended by heavy
cables from the bridge above and the
other end resting on the bank, Work
men crept into the wrecked interior
and brought out several bodies. The
forward part of the coach was badly
demolished and it IL not unlikely that
some bodies floated away.
Fourteen bodies have been recov-
cred, making a list of dead, whose
names are known, of 20, in addition
to six unidentified women and chill
dren whose bodies were taken from
the first-class coach. Besides these 81
it is supposed that score of bodies
will be found in the tourist car and
an unknown number were burned to
ashes with the second-class car.
North Bay, Ont.-Death in all
it's most terrible forms blotted out
the lives of at least score and per
haps two score people when four cars
of Canadian Pacific passenger train
on the 500 branch leaped from the
tracks and, tearing down a steep en-
bankment, plunged through the ice
covered surface of the Spanish river.
Some were drowned, others were
crushed to death in grinding timbers.
Most terrible of all, manned and in.
jured, caught in the wreckage of one
of the cars, were burned to death.
But Few Names Are Known.
Conductor Thomas Reynolds and
Baggageman Thomas Holbrook and III.
Telford, engineer, are the names so
far available. 1t is also reported j.
j. Andrews, district passenger agent
of the Canadian Pacific railroad, was
on the train and has not yet been
heard from. One man and his wife
| travelling from Ottawa to Blind River
/ have been reported. The train
wrecked was known as No. Z, en-
route from Montreal to Sault Ste. Ma.
rie and Minneapolis. An official state
ment given out here says that it prob
ably 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. dining car and sleeper went
down the embankment.
Car Takes Awful Plunge.
The wreck occurred about 81 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 run
ming at the rate of about 40 miles an
hour and the momentum carried the
car down the hill in terrific plunge
About 25 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 iced river
The second-class car, the next in the
train, smashed against the end of q
culvert and was crushed like an egg
she'll Some of the passengers were
killed outright, but others, caught in
the wreckage, which almost imme
diately broke into flames, were
roasted to death before they could be
rescued.