The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-29
RAIN AND SNOW
 HAMPER RESCUERS
 IN TRAIN WRECK
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(Continued From Page one) of the creek is running about IT feet wide and has shown no signs of receding.
 Railroad men today declared theil belief that the accident could not have been prevented. An hour before the train, swinging around slight curve on schedule time and with nc warning crashed through the bride spanning the small stream of Goa creek, a track walker reported thai he had inspected the structure an( found it safe. Weakened by hea storm and with its edges torn av by the raging torrent as the resul d cloud burst, the small bridge in no condition to withstand its he load of steel.
 Hundreds Visit scene.
 Hundreds of people visited the today and silently viewed the tans mass of steel and wood in the stre; They gazed at the wrecked eXpr car and saw the legs of a man in faded blue overalls, the feet gling in the water. In the vestibule the same car the body of man, hal ing face downward, could be SC And while they stood helpless, able to reach the victims, the ane current roared over the sides of car.
 To attempt to reach the imprison bodies meant death in the swoll stream.
 X large portion of the croy drifted away as the storm increas in violence. The figure of an ag man, standing with bowed head sta ing into the water, began to attra attention. The cold rain and snow n hiq fgnn and min grl Q z with his tears. He was the father ot Orrie Mallon, fireman of the ill., fated train. There was not a trace of his boys engine to be seen.
 Railroad officials, their eyes red from loss of sleep and drenched by the storm, worked with but one thought-to recover the bodies before they were snatched away by the swirling waters possibly to be buried in sand drift and there to lie los forever.
 Everything possible was being don according to railroad officials, speed the work of recovering dead, but until the stream receG little can be accomplished.
 O 0 o Engine Is Submerged.
 The locomotive and smoker of train still lie completely submers the latter containing the bodies many dead for whom relatives friends have long since given up he In another day coach, all but the .sla of which is submerged, grewsomo discovery will also meet the first to explore it's interior, while one Pull man, which toppled into the torrent, is believed to contain the bodies of four men-three passengers and a porter.
 The mail and express with it's load of sodden freight and one dead lies near the bank. In the engine cab the bodies of Engineer E. J. Soangler and Ollie Mallon probably will be found.
 Arrangements had been completed to erect derricks and hoist the cars with their dead from the stream, but this plan was abandoned through fear that coaches would be brok@7 and bodies of the dead lost. As result they remain all night in watery tomb and plans will be ma to explore them with the arrival daybreak tomorrow. when it is pro# able that they will be uncovered.
 o O O Roads Greatest Disaster.
 The wreck stands out as the greas est disaster of all time Cn the Bute lington railroad in Wyoming, both in the house, that nothing would arise to mar the feeling of good fellow ship this afternoon; but as the gentleman from Mobile took occasion to attack me, and defend his fellow townsman, I didn't think 1t was any thipe hui r,i0ht and nroner that