Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-23
SOLE SURVIVOR OF COACH
TELLS HORRIBLE STORY
Standing in Water, the Travelling
Salesman Breaks Through Fan
Liuht and Runs five Miles to Re-
port-Conductor Has Marvellous Es-
cape and Saves Other Lives.
Oh, Associated Press.l


SUDBURY, ONT, Jan. 22.-With
three big dray loads of rough boxes
waiting TO receive the bodies of up
wards of two score victims. the scene
OF yesterdays Canadian Pacific wreck
at Spanish river, presented today an
almost hopeless field of labor for the
hundred or more men sent 10 clear
away the wreckage and recover the
victims bodies. A blizzard ragged all
day down the valley of the Spanish
river with a binding snow and bitter
cold.
Two of the wrecked cars. the colon
list car. and the first class coach,
whose ventilators were visible above
the water this morning. drifted ur"'i
the bridge during the day and fin
ally were completely submerged. The
dining car remained partly on the
river bank and partly submerged III
the liver.
Ice Closes Over Cars.
Little remains OF the second class
coach, which was SPLIT N two when
il struck the bridge giTder and took
Ere Ice that will bear a mars weight
has closed over the first cIass coach
and the colonist car and il is impos-
sible to determine their exact loca-
ton. More than thirty injured were
taken to the general hospitals and
hotels of Sudbury.
The number of bodies lying in the
submerged cars may not bc known tor
many days. Among the passengers
unaccounted for are Rev. Archilder
House. of Sault Ste Marie. Ont, and
Auditor Robertson, of the Candian
Pacific Railroad.
The Great Crash.
The wreck occurred one a 200-foot
steel bridge with overhead Orders
down to the Spanish river underneath.
The engine. combination mail and
baggage car and express car had
passed safely upon the bridge when
the forward trucks of the second
class coach Jumped the track.
The car struck an immense steel
girder with such terrific force as 10
snap the girder in two and split the
car as though it had been divided
. with a cleaver. The rear of the sec
ond class coach swerved far out 10
one side. putting the colonist car
first class coach and diner OF the
bridge into the river and tipping over
the Pullman beside the track. Fire
that broke out at once in that portion
of the second class coach, which re-
NAMED in the right of way, added 10
the horror OF the accident.
Few of the survivors OF the wrecA
were in condition today to give a
connected account OF the details OF
the accident.
Tells His Experience
y. J. Pearce. a commercial traveller
of Toronto. however. who, Win
brakeman Morrison, Is thought to be
the only survivor OF the first class
coach gave a graphic account of his
experience Mr.. Pearce was getting
a drink at the water tank at the end
of the car when the crash came.
Finding himself struggling In the
Whit Jul WIN lis nNd0 tlAF nc
reached the fan light In the end of
the car. broke the glass and the wire
screen and struggled through. with
his face badly cut and scratched.
Running along the top Of the fTsi
class car. he found a space OF about
six feet separating Il from the diner.
Risking hts life on the floating ice,
he almost reached the diner when he
lost his footing and was plunged into
the icy wafer But a projecting pipe
from the roof Of the diner was with
in his reach. and. climbing up ~
means Of the Nipe. &c rar along the
top OF the diner to the shore.
Conductor Hero.
The Telegraph wires were all torn
down and q was evident that relief
corid not he summoned BY wire i
was Eve miles 70 the viiisec OF Nairu
and thcd Tenched survivor ran The
distance 10 deliver a report Of the
wreck al the Canadian Pacific depot
al Marin.
Meanwhile Conductor Thomas Rey-
I noids vas proving himself a hero IN
rescusing eight passengers from inc