Fillmore Progress | 1919-06-13 | Page 2 | [Untitled]

ley wire sagged and touched a steel powder keg formed a short circuit in an instant there was ns a shower of sparks and a terrific blau A great sheet of flana drawn by the air current enveloped the helpless men who were huddled closely together in a the cars with no possible change chaich to 0 es escape cape when the rescuers first entered the tunnel they found the dead and dying plied piled in heaps in the cars and along the tunnel bodies of the dead were burned to it a crisp rl qi of thu the dead sixty nine were found dead in the tunnel and fourteen others succumbed to their injuries nt at hospitals only forty nine have been identified some of the first farst bodies brought broic the tunnel were ere burning when they were brought to the surface stir face clothes had been burned an away ay and tile thu flesh was ron rousting stIng witter water was poured on these to put out the fire