New-York tribune., 1910-01-23
THIRTY-FIVE MORE IN
{. p. WRECKED CARS.
Ice in RiUer Closes OUer
Them-Stor1es Told by
SurUsUOrs.

recover the victims bodies. A blizzard
ragged all day down the valley Of the
Spanish River with a binding snow
and bitter cold.
Eleven bodies had been recovered
from the submerged cars up to $50
o'clock. 1t is believed that there are
still thirty-five or forty bodies in the
cars.
Two of the wrecked cars. the colonist
car and the first class coach, whose
ventilators were visible above the
water this morning. drifted under the
bridge during the day and finally were
completely submerged. The dining car
remained partly on the river bank and
partly submerged in the river. Little
remains of the second class coach which
was split in two when ii struck the
bridge girder and took fire. Ice that
will bear mans weight has closed
over the first class coach and the colo
mist car and it is impossible to deter
mine their exact location.
More than thirty injured were taken
to the General Hospital and the hotels
of Sudbury.
The known dead are:
HEMAULT. Joseph. Matheson. Ont.
HOPPI I4aredorf address unknown.
HOUDE Mrs c. SauIt ste Marie Ont
LAvERY. Will, North Bay, Ont
MAROTT. Jose address unknown.
MILHENY. George. North Bay. Ont
MIKEwICKLOUKO. Mike address unkncvn).
NICHOLANKO. Nicholas. Chisolm, MINI.
ROSEBACK. John. North Bay. Ont.
SPINKOSUM. NJ. address unknown.
zoUMAN, s. Chisom. MINI.
Missing and probably dead.
Blind River
CAREY: Charles, air brake inspector, Canadian
Pacific Railroad.
CURRIE. the Rev. Father Blind River Ont.
KINAHAN. Patrick Pruce Mines. Ont
MUNDY. D. A, of Canadian Pacific fuel de-
partment.
TEES. Clara. four years old Kinahan's grand
daughter
The number of bodies lying in the sub
merged cars may not be known for
many days. Among the passengers un-
accounted for are the Rev. Mr. Childer-
house. Sault Ste. Marie. Ont. and Au-
ditOr Robertson, of the Canadian Pacific
Railroad
The wreck occurred on 20O-foot steel
bridge. with overhead girders and so
Spanish River The engine. combination
mail and baggage car and express 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 to snap the girder in two and
split the car as though 1t had been di-
vided with a cleayer. The rear of the
second class coach swerved far out to
one side, pulling the cOlonist car, first
class coach and dining car off the bridge
into the river and tipping over the Pull
man beside the track Fire that broke
out at once in that portion of the second
class coach which remained on the right
of way added to the horror of the ac-
cident.
STORIES OF THE SURVIVORS.
Few of the survivors of the wreck
we're in condition to-day to give a con-
nected account of the details of the ac-
cident. B J. Pearce, a commercial trav-
eller of Toronto, however, who with
Brakeman Morrison is thought to be the
only survivor from the first class coach
gave a graphic account of his expert
ence. Mr.. Pearce was getting drink
at the water tank at the end of the car
when the crash came. Finding himself
struggling in the water. but with his
head out, he 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 first
81 Mr.
six feet separating it from the diner
Risking his life on the floating ice, he
almost reached the diner. when he lost
his footing and was plunged into the
icy water. But a projecting pipe from
the roof of the diner was within his
reach. and, climbing up by means of the
pipe he ran along the top OF the diner
TO the shore
The telegraph wires were torn down
and ii was evident that relief could not
be summoned by wire. 1t was five miles
to the village of Nairn. and the drenched
= survivor ran the distance to deliver a
Pacific depot at that place.
THE CONDUCTORS HEROIsM.
Meanwhile, Thomas Reynolds, the con-
ductor of the wrecked train. proved HIM
self hero by rescuing eight passengers
from the sunken dining car When the
wreck occurred Reynolds, with W. ]
Bell and David Brodie, had lust sat
down for an early dinner Bell and
Brodie were facing the engine and Rey-
nolds sat opposite them riding back
ward The diner was the last car 10
enter the water and did not sink at
once. but settled slowly. while the pas
sengers climbed upon tho tables to keep
their heads above the rising waters.
which rose 10 their chins
Conductor Reynolds dived 10 reach a
window, broke tn glass and succeeded
in rising to the surface of the river out
side the car. where hole in the ice en-
abled him 10 gain a solid footing by
resting one arm on the roof of the car
and the other on the ice. Gaining Nh.
roof OF the car, he broke a IA light with
his fst and rescued little Alfonso Rou-
sell of Sault Ste. Marie. After the little
boy came D. NJ. Brodie, OF Sudbury. who
was small enough 10 pass through the
fanlight Six more passengers. who wera
too big TO be rescued in this manner