The Mena weekly star., 1906-07-05
DEAD IN ENGLISH WRECK.
Passengers From the Steamer New York En Route to London
 Meet With Disaster.
TWENTY-THREE DEAD--- MANY INJURED
Nearly all Those Killed Were Americans Just Beginning n European Trip Cause of Accident Not Yet Determined-Bod- ies of the Victims to be Embalmed and Sent Home.

Sent Home.
 Salisbury, Eng, July 3.-Driying al med pace over the London Soath- western railway, the American line ex- press carrying 43 of the steamer New York passengers from Plymouth to London, plunged from the track just after passing the station here at t:5I o'clock Sunday morning and mangled to death in it's wreekage 23 passengers who sailed from New York, June 23 and four of the trainmen. Besides those to whom death came speedily a dozen persons were injured, some ot them seriously
 Nearly all of the passengers on the train were Americans who were en- route to various points in Europe by way of London.
 The train was just entering the rail way yard .at Salisbury, when the pas sengers noted that the coaches began swaying from side to side. Suddenly al the end of the long platform, when tho track begins to curve toward the bridge spanning Fisherton street, the main avenue of the city, the engine seemed fairly to leap from the track. It swung across the adjoining track with terrific force and destroyed the guards van of milk train that was slowly steaming in the opposite di- rection. killing a guard. Lurching for ward the locomative plunged against the standards and the girders of the bridge The bridge withstood the im- pact, and rebounding the engine crash ed inta another engine which was standing on a siding and overturned The wreckage of the two engines inter locked ID a great broken mass Of twist cd steel and iron Throughout the wild plunging of the engine, Driver Robins. whether alive or dead. re- mained in his cab. Hours afterward his charred body was found grilled over the frebox.
 The first coach shot over the engine and careened onward until t was aurled asainst the parapet of tho bridge and smashed into fragments killing or maiming almost every oc- euparsw~One man was shot throngl he window cleared the parapet an feil co his death to the street below
 The second coach lurched forward and rolled toward stationary traii and practically destroyed itself before Us wild fight was ended.
 The third coach dashed down with the rest left the rails and encountered some obstruction. overturned md col ispsed
 The darkness and incredible de- destruction made the work of rescue exceedingly difficult Lamps and torches were brought to light the desolate scene The station was con- tefted into a surgery and the platform was made a mortuary. Several of the dead aud injured we're imprisoned in compartments and lt was necessary to ssw away the partitions in order to ef- feef fbsir release others were caught sndeF heavy wreekage. Several of the bodies wefe badly mangled and one seman wae deeapitated
 Th scene of Sundays disaster pre- enfr lltllr eFiieu sf the ha
 sruus | hv th wreck of the express fr n at ue wf ckag' laying D en leared away The eueineering sta af fhe faiir1ad company aFe stlll seek ina an explanation tor ths immediate sarse uf ths derallusent but thus far have heen unable to do go or are noi aeaaa to sag to whaf the catastrophe Is attributable No further deaths hasF been recorded hnt Robert s rriuhsii. of chieagu and Miss L. s. Grlsvold of lieath. near Epson, passea bad niRhf Mss Margaret Rack. of Noffolk street. Park Lane. London. whose iexa have been ampu- satsa and E " senleil. of Brooklyn, ~ VI are ip s dangerous condition ai the inArmary Mrs. Frank w. Koch og Allentown. Pa and Miss May Hltchoock. of New York passed a fairly good night and are doing we'll
 The bodies of tbe dead are still in ihe waiting rooms of tho railroad sta tlon Where n0 relatives are avail ahle fhe Identification of the dead will he made by the doctor and parser of fhe NaW York The bodies Of the American victims are being embaimed far conveyance home
 The mayor of Salisbury. In reply Cd hfa message of sympathy Co the American ambassador. has received thn following
 Acknowledging your dispatch | hasten to express the appreciation of my government and of the American people for the sympathy and aid shown at Salisbury in tho terrible accident lo the American boat train. White i1x Red