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Show 43 Bodies Taken From Creek Bed In Rail Tragedy MILES CITY, Mont., June 22 (U.RI The death toll of the wreck of the transcontinental limited Olympian stood at 44 today as salvage crews continued to remove re-move broken coaches from the hed of Custer Creek, 25 miles east of here. Forty-three bodies had been recovered. re-covered. The body of one man known to have perished still was missing. Six of the victims were taken from the silt-filled interior of a sleeping car. Two more bodies were recovered at Fallon, 25 miles down the turbulent : range creek. Another . was found still farther away at Glendive, 50 m.'les downstream. down-stream. Carried 108 Miles So swift and strong was the current of Custer creek that one ody was carried 108 miles from the scene of the wreck and was recovered at Sidney. Where on the night of the wreck Custer had been a raging torrent as deep as a pullman car, today it ran at a depth of eight inches. But thousands of tons of silt had been moved, banks had been torn away and the sleeper sleep-er still unraised settled deeper. Crews constructed a dam above the submerged sleeper and three large pumps sucked remaining water from the creek bottom. . Officials said they ' believed there were at least 14 more bodies in a submerged sleeper which is to 'be raised from the creek bed as' soon ag "equipment strong enough is-set up- A 100-foot 100-foot high crane was being prepared pre-pared today for the work. A coroner's jury met and failed to fix blame for the disaster, one of the worst .in American railroad annals. The tourist industry js worth more than $200,000,000 a year to France. |