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Show El DROPS OUT OF RAISED GAR Randolph, Kan., Oct. 17. The exact number of dead in tho wreck yesterday yester-day of the Union Pacific motor train at the Fancy creek bridge near here may never bo known. When the car, which plunged head first Into the creek was raised today, the froxnt end dropped out, carrying into the flooded stream thosei bodies which the rescuers were unable to reach last night All efforts to find the bodies in the racing stream had failed tonight. The number is not known, but officials estimate es-timate that four and possibly six persons per-sons wore drowned In addition to the eleven whoso bodies were recovered yesterday. In the drive into the mud and rock at the bottom of the stream, whero th0 car carrying sixty-five passengers plunged when the bridge abutment gave way: The front end of the coach was demolished. In tho thirty hours that tho end of the car remained re-mained submerged, the swift flood waters lodged much sand and mud about It. The stream was too swift for divers to oxamlno tho bottom closely when tho car was lifted, but it was found that the hole which the falling car had gouged out In the stream's bottom bot-tom was of great depth and was fast filling with mud and sand swept down by tho current It is believed by officials that several sev-eral bodies wero burled by this mud and sand before the car was raised, and remained there afterwards Following one theory that the' bodies bod-ies may not have remained in the mud and sand, the Btream for more than a mile downward was watched. As soon as possible a net was stretched stretch-ed across tho creok. An attempt also will bo made to explore more fully the hole In which the car rested. All of the injured remaining here were said to be recovering today. |