ESCUE workers tonight feared 100 persons lost their lives when the express train, the Olympian, on the Chicago-Milwaukee-St, Paul run, plunged into the swirling waters of Custer Creek as the railway trestle crumbled under the weight of the train, The engine had reached the opposite bank before the bridge's centre span, weakened by rushing flood waters, gave way dropping four cars into the muddy river bank, twenty miles east of this city. The pull of the falling cars was such it jerked the engine backwards although at the time the engine had been roaring ahead under full steam.
Forty bodies had been recovered Mr. C, S. Franke, President of the from the wrecked train this evening American Furnace' Company of St. and 33 were known. definitely to be [Louis and passenger on the train, said missing as railway gangs with acetyl the "passengers " "displayed cadiness Tone torches cut into the partly-sub-Jand no signs of hysteria, 'The train merged sleeping car to remove 27 men did' splendid work" bodies. Only three cars remained on Railway gangs and volunteer work-the tracks as the locomotive, baggage ers were continuing efforts to recover car, mail car, four passenger cars and bodies from the oars under the glare the' sleeper crashed into a ditch beside Jof searchlights rushed to the scene, the rails.
Efforts were being made to raise a tourist car submerged in the mud itr Custer Creek, swollen by a sudden cloud burst, was flowing so swiftly [believed to have been killed, Which twenty to thirty persons were that the body of one woman from the Injured passengers were taken to tain was reported to have been Miles City' and arrangements were washed eighty miles downstream: under way to remove the bodies of shortly after the wreck, those Killed, "It was feared that many jof the dead had been washed far describing the wreck said, "the Jerk Mise Bvelyn Bratlud of Minneapolis Jdown stream and would not be re-woke me, but I wasn't afraid until covered for some time, I raised the curtain and saw water The thick mud on both banks of beneath the window. I" foolishly the stream was hindering " rescue waited to gather my clothes, Every.
Joperations us the swinging red. one was calm and all Were evacuated terns of railway workers' and the from the car in a few minute glare of welding torches indicated 'Minutes later the ear toppled Into the steady progress of the rescue crew in water' cutting into the steel Railway officials were en route to the scene The hero of the disaster, a porter, {to investigate the crash in which the Mr. Lewis Williams, helped survivors engineer was apparently unaware of }from, the cars after smashing win= dows' on the exposed side. the weakened condition of the bridge United Press, and Fuel Industries, Leeds University, from 1905-1012, Professor Bone held the position of Chief Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical Technology the Imperial College of Science and Technology. London University, from 1912 to 1936, Wie was created a Fellow of the JChemical Society in 1993, honorary member of the Institution of Gus Engineers, of the American Gas Institute, in 1912, of the Institute of Fuel (2930), and of the dron and Steel Institute (1937), He was awarded the Howard Potis Gold "Medal by The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, for his sclentife discoveries, and inventions In Sur= face Combustion, in 1913, Professor Bone was a medallist of the Royal Society of Arts for his work upon brown coals and lignites, [Melchett Medalist of the Institute Fuel, medallist of the - Society of Chemical Industry and Davy Medal-Uist of the Royal Society—Reuter, Stanislaus Car Warsaw, June 18, Stanislaus Car, former president of the Sejm (parliament) and one of Marshal Josh Pilsudsk''s closest col-laboratory, died today. He was author of Poland's 1033 constitution United Press.
Senator Royal S, Copeland Washington, June 17, Senator Royal S, Copeland, De-Imocrat of New York, died today.
The 69-year-old physician-politician collapsed shortly after the adjout ment of Congress yesterday and his audition became "rapidly worse, Despite all efforts to save him he die from what was believed to be kidney jallmant which was aggravated by Famous in his younger days as 0 Jstaunch supporter and leader of all Jpublic health programmes, Dr. Cope~ fland in later years gained more pro-Jminence in the Senate, especially ar critic of the New Deal policies.
He often refused to fall in line Jwith the Democratic Party's leader~ ship on Senate legislation. He was Jone of the few Democratic Senators who opposed President Rabsovelt's Plans to enlarge the Supreme Court in 1937, Rise of Farmer's ey Dr. Royal S, Copeland, a native of [michigan, was bora on 'a farm near Dexter, Mich, on November 7, 1868, Jand so from' his earliest years he iwas Interested in farmers and their problems, although later in life he /was a resident of America's most populous city.
AS a boy he attended the public Jschools and was graduated from the Dexter high school, and afterward Jattended the Michigan State Normal [College and the University of Michlgan, From where the received the Jdegree of Doctor of Medicine in 1889, later received the degree of Master of Arts from Lawrence University, Doctor of Laws from Syra-Jeuse University and Oglethorpe University, Doctor of Sclence from Temple University. He was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Atter an interneship in the University of Michigan Hospital and five years in general practice and postgraduate work in Europe Dr. Copeland was appointed prote sor in the University of Michigan
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