Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-02
Accident On An English Rail-
road Results in Death of
Many Americans
rwENTv-rHREE ARE DEAD
Wealthy Americans On Their Way to
the Continent Are Caught in the
Wreck and Practically All tho Fatal
tiles Were Those Of American Trav-
elsrs--story Of the Wreck.


special from Plymouth, carrying forty
seven passengers, who had debarked
Saturday night from the steamer New
York, from New York. June %, was
wrecked at Salisbury, eighty-three
miles from London. at 2 o'clock yes
terday morning Twenty -three pas
asngers were killed ana seven injured
Tho dead.
Following Is the list OF the first cabin
passengers dead.
walter Barwick, Of Toronto, Ont.
Louis r. Cassie, of Trumball, Conn.
Frederick Henry cossitt, Of New
York.
Mrs. C. w. Elphicke, OF Chicag0
Dudley Harding, Of New York.
Mrs. l.. N. Hitchcock, OF New York.
Miss Mary Il. Howieson, OF New
York
rep. Il. l.. King, Toronto, Ont.
Frank w. Koch, OF Allentown, Pa.
John u. Mcdonald, OF New York.
II e. N. McMeekin. Of New York.
81 q. A. Pipon, OF Toronto, Ont.
HsS4e MIS-. ~, " ScIttelts vi ANeW ioih
Miss Blanche M. Sentell, Of New
York.
Miss Gertrude NJ. Sentell OF New
York.
Mrs. Walter w. Smith, OF Dayton.
4 o.
Miss Eleanor Smith, OF Dayton, O.
Gerard Smith Of Dayton, Ohio.
Mrs. Lillias Waite, OF Hurd, N. Y.
Charles e. Sentell, Of New York.
The following second cabin passen-
&ers are dead. Their addresses are UNI
sobtainable:
& Louis Geoppinger.
julie Keller.
w. n. Thompson.
The Injured.
The following first cabin passengers
are injured:
q. IN. III. Allen, New York.
Robert S. Critchell, Chicago.
Miss I. s. Griswold, address unob-
tainable.
Miss NJ. Hitchcock New York.
Mrs. Kock, Allentown, PA.
Miss Anna H. Koch. Allentown, Pa.
Tho following second cabin pas-
sensers were injured:
Miss Rask, address unobtainable.
E. w. Sentell. New York.
The train had passed the Salisbury
station platform at very high speed.
On sharp curve beyond the locomo-
tive jumped the track and ploughed up
rails, crashed into west bound freight
train. The engine mounted the grid
ers OF the railway bridge over the river
Avon and turned turtle. There were
three passenger coaches in the train.
The first shot past the locomotive and
crashed into the railway bridge and
was smashed into splinters, portions Of
the wreck being hurled completely
over the bridge. The second aAd third
passenger cars We're toppled over and
completely destroyed. The conductors
I van, containing cooks kitchen was
& saved by the conductor, who promptly
applied the brakes Rescue parties set It
work instantly but to little purpose
and the injured remained in the debris
= long time. AS the bodies of the dead
were extricated they were laid in rows
on the station platform awaiting
Identification.
All the physicians in Salisbury were
summoned and devoted themselves to
attendance upon the wounded
The body of the engineer was found
on the flrebox, charred beyond recog-
milton. 1t was necessary to saw away
parts Of the compartments of the rail-
way coaches in order to release the sur
vlvors and to secure the bodies Of the
dead. In one compa rtment all of the
passengers except two were killed. and
I the rescue of the survivors was exceed
ingly difficult.
The injured were later removed to
the Salisbury infirmary where the en-
tire staff, assisted by the local volun-
teer surgeons attended them.
Mayor Mcclellan, OF New York who
was a passenger on the New York, did
not debark at Plymouth, but went on to
Southampton and reached London this
Afternoon.