Arizona republican., 1906-07-02
.FR|GHTFUL WRECK
 ON ENGLISH RAILWAY
Twenb-Three American Passengers Killed
 and Twelve Injured
Train Piled Up in Mass of Wreckage Bridge Over Street of Salisbury Eight Miles From London, Travelling About a Mile a Minute

where the express was standing made up.
 The train consisted of a powerful 1 express engine, three first class corri.. dor carriages and one combination guards van and buffet. The passen- gers soon entrained and at 11:3O the express pulled out. It was given a clear track for the run of 23O miles
 to London. on which the express gen
 erally maintains an average speed of
 a mile minute.
 Driver Robins quickly gave the en-
 zine her head and the train was soon
 speeding through the night. It ran
 on safely and without incident until it entered the long railway yard at Salisbury. when the passengers noted
 that the coaches began swaying from side to side Suddenly at the end of a long platform, where the track begins to curve toward the bridge spanning Fisherton street, the main avenue or the city, the engine seemed to fairly leap from the track. It swung across an adjoining track with terrific force and destroyed the guards van of a milk train that was slowly steaming in an opposite direction, killing a guard. Lurching forward. the loco- motive plunged against the standards and girders of the bridge The bridge withstood the impact and the rebound ing engine crashed into another engine which was standing on the siding and overturned. The wreckage of the two engines interlocked in great broken masses of twisted steel and iron. Throughout the wild plunging of the engine driver Robins. whether alive or dead, remained in his cab. Hours af- terward his charred body was found grilled over the firebox.
 The first coach shot over the engine and careened onward until it was hurled against a parapet of the bridge and smashed into fragments. Killing or maiming almost every occupant. One man shot through the window, cleared the parapet and fell to his death on the street below. The second coach lurched forward and rolled toward the stationary train and practically de- stroyed itself before its wild flight ended. The third coach dashed for ward with the rest, left the train and encountered some obstruction. over turned and collapsed The guards van and buffet, the rearmost car of the train, was saved by the courage and quickness of Guard Richardson. With the first shock Richardson Jumped forward and set the brakes and saved himself and his comrades. The van ploughed forward and injured some of it's occupants but practically main tained its equilibrium.
 The surviving passengers ana train men describe the sound of the wreck as like the discharge of a series of heavy guns of varied caliber and when the crashing of the wreck was past there came the calls of the injured some shrieking with pain and fear and others moaning as if bewildercd by the shock. Relief came quickly, al- though it was an hour before the last body was dragged from the wreck. The police, attracted by the noise, called ambulances and surgeons and warned the hospitals to prepare to relieve the injured. The railway yards were quickly filled with police, doctors, nurses, trainmen and volunteers.
 Darkness and incredible destruction made the work of rescue exceedingly difficult. Lamps and torches were brought to light the desolate scene. The station was converted into a sur gery and the platform was made mortuary. Several of the dead and in- jured were imprisoned in compart- ments and it was necessary to saw away partitions in order to effect their release. Others were caught under