The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-07-06
AMERICANS KILLED.
FEARFUL WRICK OF PASSENGER
TRAIN NEAR LONDON.
Special Train Bound for London
Jumps the Rails-Strikes Freight,
then Crashes into Bridge, where
Passenger Car Is SpIintered-Dead
Number Twenty-three.

Passenger Car Is SpIintered-Dead
Number Twenty-three.
London, j .ly 1.-THE American line
special, carrying As passengers who
steamer " York, from New York,
June 70, was wrecked at Salisbury,
eight miles from London, at o'clock
Sunday morning. Twenty-three pas
sengers were killed and seven in
jured.
Following is the list of the first cab
in passengers dead:
Barwick, Walter, Toronto, Ont.
Cassier, Louis, Trumbull, Conn.
Cossitt, Frederick Henry, New
York.
Elphicke, Mrs. C. w. Chicago.
Harring, Dudley, 316 West Ninety
seventh street, New York.
Hitchcock, Mrs. L. NJ, 261 Central
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.
McMeekin, F. c., New lork City.
Pipon, C. A., Toronto, Ont.
Sentell, Mrs. C. E. w., New York
City.
Sentell, MSS blanche NJ, New Aork
City.
sentell, Miss Gertrude NJ, New
York City.
Smith, Mrs. Dayton, Ohio.
Smith, Miss Eleanor, Dayton, Ohio.
Smith, Gerard, Dayton. Ohio.
White, Mrs. Lillian Hurd, 424 Fifth
avenue, New York.
The following second cabin passen-
gers are dead:
Geoppinger. Louis, address I'M
known.
Keller, Jules, address unobtainable.
Thompson, WAN, addrs IS unOb-
| tainable.
The following are the first cabin
passengers injured:
Allen, G. H. ", New York City.
Critcnell, Robert S.. Chicago.
Griswold, Miss L. s., Address unob-
tainable.
Hitchcock, lAlss NJ, New York
City.
Koch, Mrs., Allentown, a.
Koch, ISIS Anna, Allentown, Pa.
The following second cabin rassen-
ger was injured:
The train had passed the Salisbury
street platform at very high speed. At
a sharp curve just outside of town
the locomotive jumped the track and.
blowing up the rails, crashed into q
| westbound freight train. The engine
mounted the Orders of the railway
bridge over the river Avon and turned
turtle. There were three passenger
| coaches in the train. The first Of
these shot ahead of the locomotive
and crashed into the railroad bridge
and was smashed into splinters, por-
tons of the wreck being hurled COM
pletely over the bridge. The second
over on .ue line and completely de-
| stroyed. The conductors van, con-
tanning cooks kitchen, was saved
by the conductor, who promptly ap-
piled the brakes.
Rescue parties set out working in
stantly, but to little purpose, and the
injured were forced to remain buried
in the debris long time. AS the bod
les of the dead we're !extricated they
we're laid in rows on the station plat
form awaiting Identification. All the
physicians In Salisbury were sum-
moned and devoted themselves to at
tending the wounded.
The body of the engineer was found
on top of the frebox charred beyond
recognition. It was necessary to saw
away part OF the compartments of the
| railway coaches in order to release
the survivors and to secure the bodies
of the dead. In one compartment all
of the passengers except two were
killed and the rescue of the survivors
was exceedingly difficult.
The injured were later removed to
Salisbury infirmary.
The late hour of the New York's ar
rival at Plymouth saved many lives.
She carried more than 60 travellers for
London, but many of them elected to
travel on comfortably to Southampton
in preference to the late landing at
Plymouth and the long night ride
across the country. If the New York
had made faster passage the somber