New Britain herald., 1929-07-19
Nine Bodies Recovered

lay from the wreckage of the Chi ago, Rock Island and Pacific's crack nassenger train which plunged through flood weakened bridge into an arroyo. Three other Pull man and baggage cars were piled up. two of the Pullmans half sub- merged in the arroyo.
 Eight of the bodies were taken from The Cape Porpoise' which was so completely submerged that 1t vas two hours after the wreck De- fore 1t was realized that one of the cars in the train was missing. The ninth body, that of nego Pullman porter, was found a mile down stream from the wreck
 Scores Injured
 Scores of more than 100 passen- gers aboard the train were injured and were taken to the hospitals throughout this region by rescue workers.
 Passengers on the train said that most of them were awake when the accident occurred. A few minutes before, the train, westbound, had pulled into a siding to permit the rassage of the eastbound train over the same tracks The eastbourd train passed over the bridge 45 mln- utes before the disaster to the west bound trains.
 Many of the passengers were pre- parng for their first view Of the Rocky Mountains. The dawn was hrea king as the train sped west ward. at an estimated speed of 45 miles an hour.
 Engine Crossed Safely
 Engineer M. V. Ryan of Colorado Springs. Colo, a veteran Of 70 years service on the Rock Island. and plot of the head engine of the double header, said the engine crossed the bridge safely.
 The structure gave way as the rear wheels of the baggage car passed over it. The car cleared the bridge and plunged off the track, turning over. A second Pullman al most cleared the arroyo, it's rear sec ton only falling into the stream. The next car The Cape Porpolse, was submerged and the front section of the Pullman next in line fell into the water The remainder of the Is coaches were strewn about the prairie.
 Ryan disconnected his engine from the baggage car and raced 1t to Vonah, four miles away where he reported the accident. returning immediately to aid in the rescue work
 Gest Describes Wreck
 Morris Gest. New York theatrica produced. gave a graphic account oi the wreck.
 Tt was terrible, one of the most terrible experiences of my life,' he said, "and yet everyone seemed calm. There was none of the scream ing and the panic that usually is as- sociated with a catastrophe Of the kind.
 My first realization of the crash came as the car in which I was rid ing turned on it's side (Gests car was the one behind the death carl and was thrown upSlut uo ll' >i'iiA''>N out through window, unhurt.
 My secretary. Abie Kritz2r crawled back into the car to see Ii he could find book contalnlrE press clippings. In the dim gray oI the car he saw a woman struggling and pulled her through the window to the outside. Water was seeplns into the car and without his aid shf might have drowned. And ye everyone was calm. I made severa suggestions of ways of getting into the submerged car. and as they were tried out, it was just as though was directing some play"
 The producer, attired in a pail of nondescript trousers and the lav ender coat of his silk pajamas, ar rived in Denver last night having driven from the wreck. Kritzel wore a pair of borrowed golf knicll CTS and a Pullman porter's coat Both men lost their luggage.
 Escapes Through Window
 F. J. Perry of New Bedford Mass, the only survivor of the pas sensers in the death car was awak( when the car plunged into the water. He escaped by breaking z window and was carried a half mile down stream from the wreck before he reached the shore of the 50-foo wide stream.
 Railroad men throughout yester. day sought to hoist the submerged car with derricks, but the rush O the water defeated their efforts. Lss night fire engines from a nearh, town endeavored to pump sufficien water from the arroyo to enahl; wrecking crews to release the coach