Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-07

! in the breasts of his children were
still.
I Thirtyfour dead have been account
ed for. but the death toll is expected to
exceed this number by at least dozen
as in the confusion several bodies were
hustled upon the relief trains before
being checked. Many of the bodies
could not be identified because their
| effects had been scattered over such
wide area.
! The railroad tracks parallel the Mis-
slssippl river and the trestle on which
the disaster occurred span Glaiz creek.
where it enters the river. As a result.
a report was current that a number Of
bodies were hurled into the Mississippi.
There was no way of verifying this re-
port, however.
Rescue work was interfered with BY
lack of proper light. This little vii
lage is without electricity and the res
cue workers and morbidly curious made
their way among the mass of twisted
steel and crumbled wooden Goa aches by
the aid of kerosene torches and lights
on sticks.
Thousands Visit Wreck
Thousands of persons visited here
late Saturday night and Sunday to view
the wreck and roads were blocked for
radius of three miles. DR.. Hull. who
was among the first at the wreck. told
The Associated Press that bodies Of
dead were found 800 feet from the
scene of the accident One BODY was
buried waist deep in mud DR.. George
W: Elders, coroner of Jefferson county.
said thorough investigation of the
accident would be made.
Tho ITpiop ctc&;n, Lo.~
OF horror Sunday morning 6s trains
Nos. 30 and pulled in with the sur
vlvors and victims Of Sulphur Springs
disaster.
Relatives and friends of the victims
stormed the gates at the train sheds
and pleaded with the police To permit
them entrance. Faces reflecting the
terror Of an anticipated death or in
jury peered through the grating in an
effort to catch glimpses of the shroud-
ed bodies as they were taken to waiting
automobiles.
Ambulances were backed to the
coaches when the trains arrived and
the injured rushed to hospitals.
Miss l,ennie Walker. a waitress. 10
years old, of st. Louis. was a heroine
of the telescoped local, according TO
fellow passengers. She was pas
senger of the third ear from the rear
of the local train. steel constructed
when the crajh occurred. OF the
thirty passengers in this car. Miss
walker and two men were the only
persons not seriously injured or >tem-
porarily disabled. They cleared tbs
coach OF all injured before other heIp
arrived.
Heroine Tells Story
Speaking of the disaster. Mise
Walker said
The coach landed on the side
was sitting on and was not thrown.
as were those sitting on the opposite
SIDE, When l found l had only been
shaken and bruised I was not fright.
ened and climbed out through win
dow of the upper side to see if the
wreck was catching fire. then
crawled back and helped remove the
injured. Miss Walker refused medical
ard and went to her home Immediately
after arriving in st. Louis.
The mail car of train No was
'harnel house on wheels. Fifteen
dead. IL of whom were women and
were piled in heaps on mail
sacks.
Seven survivors lay with the dead:
one. woman. occupied cot alongside
eight female victims.
Willing hands helped carry the in
iured to ambulances as spectators
seeking loved ones scanned their faces:
The dead in the mail car were hauled
10 the city morgue in a furniture van.
A backward glance out Of car win
lows proved fortunate for W. e. Fos-
.er of Herrin. Ill.,. who jumped from
me of the coaches of No. 32 a moment
before the rear end collided.
Foster skii he looked back and saw
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