The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-02
DEAD NUMBER 27.
TWenty-three Americans Killed
in Railway Accident
On London Southwestern En-
Route to London.
WRECK ON A BRIDGE.
Train Was Going at Rate Of a
Nile 8 Minute.
The Engine and Three Coaches
Totally Demolished.
WRECK ON A BRIDGE.

Totally Demolished.
Salisbury, England. July 2.-Driv-
ing at mad pace over the London
Southwestern railway. the American
Line express. carrying forty-three Of
the steamer New York's passengers
from Plymouth to London plunged
from the track just after passing the
station here at 1.57 o'clock Sunday
morning. and mangled to death in its
wreckage twenty-three passengers who
sailed from New York June %, and
four of the trainmen. Besides those
to whom death came speedily, a dozen
persons were injured. some of them
seriously.
The Dead.
BARWICK, WALTER, of Toronto.
CASsIER, LOUIS Of Trumbull,
Conn.
COssITT. FREDERICK HENRY,
of New York.
ELPHICKE. MRS. c. W. Chicago.
HARDING, DUDLEY P, 316 West
Ninety-hfth street. New York.
HITCHCOCK, MRS. 1. N, 261 Cen
tral Park. West. New York.
HOWIESON. MISS MARY F., 81
West Thirty-first street. New York
KING. REV. e L. Toronto, Ont.
KOCH. FRANK W.. Allentown. Pa.
MCDONALD, JOHN E., New York
city.
PIPON, C. A. Toronto, Ont.
sENTELL, MRS. z. w. New York
sENTELL. MISS BLANCHE NJ.
New York.
sENTELL. MISS GERTRUDE NJ
New York.
SMITH, MRS. Dayton, o.
SMITH MISS ELEANOR. Day
ton. o.
SMITH, GERALD, Dayton. o.
WAITE. MRS. LILLIAS HURD, 624
Fifth avenue. New York.
Second Cabin Passengers.
GECPPINGER, LOUIS, address un-
obtaInable.
KEELER. JULES. address unob-
The Injured.
Allen, G. II. ". New York city.
C'ritcheIl. Robert S.. Chicago.
Griswoid. Miss l. S., address unob-
tainabie.
Hitchcock, Miss NJ, New York city.
Koch, Mrs, Allentown, Pa.
Second Cabin Passengers.
Rask Miss NJ, address unobtainable.
The late hour Of the New Yorks ar
rival at Plymouth saved many lives.
She carried more than sixty travellers
for London, but many Of them elected
TO travel on comfortably to South
ampton in preference to the late land
Ing at Plymouth and the long night
ride across the country If the New
FORK had made a faster passage the
somber roster Of the dead and injured
would have been longer. The big
American line steamer reached
Plymouth at 9:35 o'clock Saturday
night and half an hour later there
was a tender alongside to receive pas
Sengers for England Several who had
planned to debark and packed their
baggage decided at the last moment
to remain on board It was a fateful
decision. though not dictated by any
fear. The run across the Atlantic had
neen pleasant. There were CHEEKY
partnss when the passengers for Lon
don transferred 10 the waiting tender.
which steamed for the Devonport land
Ing, where the express was lying,
made up.
The train consisted Of powerful ex-
press engine. three first class corridor
carriages and one com bination guards
van and buffet. The passengers were
soon entrained. and at II 80 the ex-
press pulled out. II was given a clear
track on the run of 230 miles to Lon
aon on which the express generally
ma tains an average speed of z mile a
minute
Left Track on Bridge.
Driver Robins quickly gave the en-
glne her head, and the special was
soon speeding swiftly through the
.tisn 1t ran on safely and without
incident until it entered the long rail-
way yard al Salisbury, when the pas
sengers noted that the coaches began
sWaying from side TO side. Suddenly.
At the end Of the long platform. when
the track begins to curve toward the
prl9se spanning Ffsherton street. the
mann avenue OF the city the engine
seemed fairly to leap from the track
n swung across the adjoining track
= with terrific force and destroyed the
guards van of milk train that was
slowly steaming in the opposite direc-
ton, killing a guard.
Lurching forward. the locomotive
plunged against the standard and the
Sirders OF the bridge. The bridge
WtthstoOd the impact, and rebounding.
the engine crashed into another engine
Whlch was standing or a siding and
overturned. The wreekage of the two
engines interlOcked in a great broker
mass of twisted steel and iron
Throughout the wild plunging of the
engine, Driver Robins. whether alive
or dead. remained in his cab. Hours
afterward his charred body was founG
griled over the firebox.
The first coach shot over the engine
and careened onward until it wa.
hurled against the parapet of ths
bridge and smashed into fragments
Hilling or manning almost every occu-
#ant One man was shot through the
window cleared the parapet and fel
10 his death to the street below.
Guard Saves One Car
The second coach furched forward
and rolled toward stationary trair
and practically destroyed itself befor'
its wild flight was ended
The third coach dashed forward
with the rest. left the rails and en-
countered some obstruction, over
turned and collapsed.
The guards van and buffet. ths
rearmost car Of the train. was saved
oy the courage and quickness o
zuard Richardson. With the firs
shock Richardson jumped forward
8nd set the brakes and saved himsef
and his comrades The van plouEhes
aorward. in5uring some of its occu