The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-07-05
AMERICANS DIE IN WRECK.
MAD RACE AGAINST TIME RESULTS
IN DISASTER TO S. S. NEW
YOPK'S PASSENGERS.
MANY PERSONS INJURED.
Prominent People from New York, Chi
cago and Other Large Cities Figure
in Wholesale Tragedies.

LONDON, July 2.-Twenty-four Amer
leans were killed and ten or more IN
jured Sunday in the most deadly Wrech
in the history OF British raiIroading
when the American line express, carry
ing forty-three of the steamer Ne"
York 5 passengers, literally was smashed
to match wood almost III the shadow ol
Salisbury cathedral.
The Great Western last week took
party of German editors from London
to Plymouth, 246 miles, in about four
and one-half hours, establishing a new
record Tie Southwestern attempted 10
beat this Saturday night, with the re
sulting death roll The distance run
from the start to the scene of the wreck,
14G miles, occupied Ia minutes
Many Owe Lives to Mere Chance.
The New York, with full passenger
list. had had rather Slow voyage. 1t
4 should have arrived III plymouth III the
middle of Saturday afternoon. IN that
/ case all the London bound passengers,
/ according to custom, would have landed
! at that port. They had the option, now
T ever Of continuing the voyage To Cher
I bourg and Southampton, as Mr.. ana
4 Mrs. Longworth did under similar cir
/ CumStanccS Il month ago,
\ majority Of the passengers decided
yesterday, when it became evident the
latcness of the steamers arrival would
ncccsSItatc a long night journey, To STICK
to the ship aud make more comfort
able daylight trip from Southampton
this afternoon.
Each passenger in making this appar-
nifty uuimpOrtant choice literally dccid-
ed the question of life or death. Mayor
Mcclellan of New York was one OF the
last 10 choose the Southampton route.
story of the Disaster.
II was comparatively small com
pany that babe their fellow passengers
good-by when the tender went alongside
the New York inside Plymouth break
water. About an hour was occupied in
customs inspection and preparations
and the London and Southwestern com
pauy's train pulled ont just after II
O'Clock
1t is customary to run these boat spe-
Gals at an average speed OF nifty niles
an hour for the whole $50 miles from
Plymouth TO London. and the engineer,
with clear track before him, pun the
locomotive to its best pace from the
start. He had a light train. only three
passenger coaches and the baggage van.
He reached Salisbury. eighty-iivc miles
from London, at just > o'clock Signals
were set safety, and the train dashed
through the covered station ut seventy
miles AN hour
Nobody is able to explain what hap
/ pcned mex. just at the eastern exit of
the station the locomotive loapcd from
the rails. 70 the left a milk train on
an adjoining track was drawing slowly
in b. iiy.pti,, -
special, and the derailed engine dashed
first into the guards van at the roar
of the milk train. This was demolished
in twinhling and the guard within in
stautly killed.
Smashes into Bridge Orders.
/ Passing through this wrerkagc, the on.
/ giuc struck diagoualy the heavy iron
/ grdcrs which hold up the bridge over
I the principal street Of the town, over
which the railroad passes. The CHANGING
blow threw the great engine i'm n 70,
/ bounding semicirclc against an engine
standing on the opposite track. and both
\ were reduced 10 st"am cloudod wreck
4 The engineer and fireman in the second
\ cnHine wcrc scaIdcd to death
The first passenger coach also dashed
! against the orders. and its whole left
\ side was torn Out rs though ii was paper
I In f0ct the car literally was cut in two
/ lcngtlwISc, half falling in bits To the
road below Une passenger was shot
4 from the car twenty-five feet through the
bridge, landing dead aud terribly luHnglpd
in the ehlubbcry.
The second coach swung to the right.
1 shot over the other. and landed on top Of
/ the wreck Of til" two engines. where ii
I cod p-ud like house uf cards LIS pas
/ sengCrs aI were damned in the ,rn,rr in
an awful mass, and here most Of the