A coroners jury was deadlocked here today on the question of responsibility for the disastrous wreck of the Olympian express which crashed through a weakened railway trestle into the muddy bank of flooded Custer Creek.
The total number of dead continued to remain a mystery as workers persisted in their efforts to extricate bodies from the mud and water of a partially submerged sleeper, inability to check accurately on the number of bodies washed down stream by the force of the creek's current complicated efforts of Milwaukee Line Railway officials to compile a death list.
Forty-five persons were known tol be dead but the number remaining in the sleeper and washed away will not be known for some time, officials} stated. The body of Mr. P. F. Schultz] of Ladd, Illinois was recovered in the Yellowstone River 108 miles below one of the wreck.—United
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