They were coming to the top of a knoll; at the summit Billinger stopped and pointed down into a hollow a quarter of a mile away.
"It will be a loss of time to go down there," he said, "and it will do no good.

See that thing that looks like a big log in the river?
That's the top of the day coach.

It went in right side up, and the conductor--who wasn't hurt--says there were twenty people in it.

We watched it settle from the shore, and we couldn't do a thing--while they were dying in there like so many caged rats! The other coach burned, and that heap of stuff you see there is what's left of the Pullman and the baggage car.

There's twenty-seven dead stretched out along the track, and a good many hurt.