The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-03
HAD PREM0NITION
sENTELLs OF BROOKLYN WERE
 EXPECTING DEATH.
All Had Made Their Wills and Ex- pressed Thoughts of Impending TraGedy-Pathefic Incidents
 of Salisbury HorrOr.

New York, July 2.--A strange sort or fatality seemed to have attended the journey from here of those New York CTS who met such an appalling death in the wreeck of the American Line ex- press on the London and Southwestern Railway at Salisbury, England, early yesterday morning. ForebodinEs that some calamity would overtake them moved the Sentell family party of five to discuss the subject with friends on the pier just before they boarded the steamer and one of the party remarked with much solemnity that should the premonition come true the entire party would go into eternity together
 As matter of fact only five sur vived the wreck. Of the seven killed all were old acauaintances and had travelled abroad in each others com pany So strong was this friendship that they had planned to hold a Fourth of July reunion and celebration in London. But today only two of the seven are alive. Still another of those whose lives were lost met this fate solely from devotion to his invalid wife
 1t was the Sentells of Brooklyn who feared they would never return from their trip. Charles E. Scntell. law yer with offices in this city. hls mother and his father, Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Sentell, and his two sisters, the last named being teachers in the Brooklyn public schools made up their party. The elder MT. Sentell alone es- capped death.
 On the day of sailing a large crowd of young persons, friends of the fam fly, went to the pier. Some time be- fore the cry 'all for the shore" sounded. a singular Hull came over the friends and the same thought seemed to be in the minds of all that thought was what If something awful should happen?" Finally the silence was broken and the common thought found expression when one of the Misses Sem tell said with ill-feigned carelessness. Well good friends if anything awful does happen. we will all go together. It will be family affair this time surely"
 The unknown premonition was kept up for some minutes and during 1t one of the family told a friend that each of them and made his or her will only few hours before. The Sentells are described as being singulariy affec- donate and when their acquaintances learned last night of the horror at Salisbury the conversation was vivid- ly recalled.
 It was due to circumstances also that John E. Mcdonald, a wealthy turfman. was among the dead. That circumstance was devotion to his ail- ing wife. Two weeks ago MT. McDon- ald had planned for the voyage, but on account of the illness of his wife he postponed the trip until her health was improved. when she accompanied him.
 When the New York sailed from her vsAr small group, all of whom are we'll known. and of all the happy crowd on the great liner none were more cheer fulthan they Out of the seven, two survived.
 Tn tn party were Mrs. Lillias Hurd Waite, one of the best known millin- CTS in New York and the wife of for mer Alderman Charles B. Waite; John F. Mcdonald and Mrs. Mcdonald; turfiuan; Mrs. c. W. Eiphicke and daughter, of Evanston III, and Mrs. Mary F. Howisson, who conducted millinery business in that city.
 They were all old friends and 1t was they who hoped to celebrate the nations birthday in the British capi- tai. Mrs. Mcdonald and Miss E1phicke alone escaped.
 Perhaps the saddest announcement Wltcn the CdDl6 DTOuBHL tO ISldtlECo and friends in New York yesterday was the message received by Judge Durgree, at the Hotel Savoy. from his daughter, Mrs. Frederick Cossitt, stat ing briefly that death had ended her brief honeymoon trip, and that. she would return to New York with the body of her husband. t.
 Attended by many of the supreme court judges of the city and persons prominent in New York's best society, the Cossitts wedding at the Savoy had been one of the most notable June weddings. Miss Durgro was ad- mired by a very large circle of friends, and her husband was one of the most popular men in Princeton.
 When the young couple sailed they wee accompanied to tho pier by many of those who attended the wedding. What adds to the severity of lhe blow is the fact that Judge Durgro and his family were to sail tomJrrcw to join their daughter and son-in-law in Lon don. All arrangements lad been made for a trip on the continent together and Judge Dugro was expecting a message from his daughter announc- ing their safe arrival in London, when the cable was received telling of the catastrophe at Salisbury.