The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-07-06
Chimes of Historic Cathedral at Sails
bury, Where Accident Occurred,
Toll for Those Who Lost Their
Lives in the Disaster.
LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED.

G. A. Pipon, Toronto, Ont.
Charles e. Sentell, New York.
Mrs. E. w. Sentell, New York.
Miss Blanche M. Sentell, New York
Miss Gertrude M. Sentell, New York
Mrs. Walter w. Smith, Dayton, o.
Miss Eleanor Smith, Dayton, o.
Gerard Smith, Dayton, o.
Mrs. Lillias Hurd Waite, New York
The following second cabin passen
gers are dead:
Louis Goppinger, address unobtain-
able.
Jules Keller, address unobtainable
w. H. Thompson, address unobtain.
able.
The following are the first cabin pas
sengers injured:
G. H. v. Allen, New York.
Robert s. Critchell, Chicago, Ill.
Miss I. 8. Griswold, address unob-
tainable.
Miss M. Hitchcock, New York.
Mrs. Koch, Allentown, Pa.
The following second cabin passen-
ger was injured:
Miss M. Rask, address unobtain-
able.
Salisbury, Eng, July 2.-Salisbury
cathedral, built 200 years before Column.
bus discovered America, rang its
chimes Sunday night for score OF
American dead who met their tragic
fate under the very shadow Of its beau.
tiful spire when the boat train from
Plymouth, freighted with people
wealthy and well known, who had
looked forward to the attractions OF
Europe and were hurrying to the
worlds capital, collided with a milk
train ut two o'clock Sunday morning.
One searches in vain for eyewitness
es who might give from mental photo
graphs details of the disaster.
There were not half dozen men on
the platform at the time, and these in.
cluded Night Inspector Spicer, who
was there to signal and telegraph
trains passing Salisbury. Looking at
his watch, he noted the time, 1857
when a great noise, the result of the
impact, gave the first intimation that
a tragedy had occurred.
Runs at High Speed.
All went we'll until the train reached
Salisbury, although some passengers
had at various points remarked on the
very high rate of speed, one or two
men expressing some alarm and those
taking supper on the train experien-
cling the greatest difficulty in avoiding
splitting the contents of their plates
and cups. A short distance out of Sal
isbury begins a remarkable curve
which sometimes has been described
as the most dangerous in the world
and which certainly possesses elements
of danger.
Not only does the line enter and
leave the station on curve, but where
it crosses Fisherton street the line
takes q slight RISE 1t was practically
at this point that the engine jumped
the rails and brought about disaster
both as regards the percentage OF
lives lost and the extent of the damage
to rolling stock, almost without pre-
cedent in the annals of British railway
accidents, especially of boat expresses
A milk train laden with empty cans
was leisurely entering the station in
the opposite direction to the express
while at the entrance of the siding
was solitary locomotive ready to fur
nish any services the milk train might
require.
Train Leaves Rails.
In the meantime the express came
pounding along, swaying heavily ow-
ing 10 the enormous speed.
The inspector on the station plat
form, watch in hand, followed hel
course with his eye and was Mortified
to see the train leave the rails and
Jump to the vacant line on the right
and plunge into the rear of the milk
train.
A crash like the roar of artillery
awakened many inhabitants of Sails.
bury, q mile away. Within some 2(
seconds the whole train became a mass
of wreckage, the ponderous engine
having smashed the guards van of the
milk train to atoms and killed guard
Instantly all the carriages broke from
their couplings.
Parapet Holds Train.
The engine hurled itself against the
edge of the strong iron parapet which
| bounds the bridge over the roadway
The iron work of the parapet wa.
| twisted out of all shape, and a portion
of it was detached and fell with /:
crash to the pavement beneath.
The locomotive and tender, rebound
ing from the parapet, hurled their i'm
mense weight against the stationary
locomotive, which became a wreck, it.
boiler exploding and so severely scald
ing the driver and the fireman that tn,
latter has since died.