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Rescuers using wooden walking sticks to slog through thick mud recovered 17 bodies, raising to at least 106 the number killed when a train bound for the California border derailed and tumbled into a river, the Red Cross said. Nearly 150 people were injured when the overcrowded express train was unable to stop at a washed out bridge and fell into the San Rafael River Wednesday in an area flooded by torrential rains near the Gulf of California, some 400 miles from the U.S. border. "We have recovered 106 bodies from the site and 146 others were injured," said Elias Miguel, Red Cross spokesman for Guamuchil, 393 miles south of the U.S.-Mexican border.