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smoking-car lie thinks about the same number.In his opinion there were not less than 200 pas-sengers in all. He says when he got out of thecar on the ice the screams of the dying andcrushed broke upon his ears, and were the mostpitiful sounds that were ever heard. He saidthat all occurred in such a remarkably brief spacethat he cannot now realize how it was that somuch of human misery could be crowded into aspeck of time.”

The experience of those in the smoking-car wasquite remarkable. Several who escaped from this,have told of the fall. There were but four killedin it. Among them was Ilarrv Wagner, con-ductor of the sleeping cars, who, it is said, wasdriven against, and even through, the end of thecar, by the stove, which swept through the wholelength with terrible force.

The conductor, Mr. Ilenn, speaks of this andsays that the stove shot past him on one sideand something else fell with a crash on the otherside, but he escaped. Mr. J. M. Earle’s experi-ence was quite remarkable. He gives expressionto the feelings which many had in almost tragicwords. He says: