The State of Montana started an investigation tonight into the worst train disaster in its history as res-oners and railroad officials counted a possible toll of 55 dead and Q7 injured in the wreck of the Milwaukee Line trans-continental Olympian, Twenty-eight bodies weer recovered from the wreck and 27 others were definitely known to be dead. Many of these bodies were believed to be in a submerged sleeper which was lifted a slight way out of the creek by a railway emergency crane to drain out the water. Previous attempts to lift the car from the muddy river bottom had failed.
Mr. R. E. Agan, Milwaukee traffic agent, said the coach had not yet been entered and no bodies had been removed. Rescuers, hampered by the muddy torrent of Custer Creek, tempted to cut into the coach with acetylene torches. Men at the wreck scene said there was no possibility that any of the occupants would be found alive.
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