New-York tribune., 1907-09-02

The tablet bears these twenty-eight names:
Walter Barwick. Louis Cassier, George Chen
neour (guard). Sidney Charles Chick (freman)'
Frederick Henry Cossitt. Mary Scott Elphicke'
Arthur Gadd Cfreman). Louis Geoppnger. Dud-
ley Pierpont Harding. Francis Ford Hitchcock
Mary Frances Howieson. Jules Keller. Edward
Ley King CToronto). Frank ". Kock, John Ed
ward Mcdonald. Charles Francis McMeekin'
Charles Ashworth Pipon. William John Robins
(driver). Edward William Senten. Ellen Cecilia
Senteu Charles Edward Sentel1. Gertruds
Maude SenteIl. Blanche Marian SenteH. Belle
NJ Smith. Eleanore Smith. Gerard Smith.
Thomas William Thompson and Lillias Wylie
Waite. And then follow the words:
In the midst Of life We are in death: ,,
OF whom we seek for s1ecor but of thee o LordE
Just before the singing of the hymn the Amer
lean Ambassador addressed the congregation in
the name Of his countryrren in the following
words:
We who are gathered to-day Ia this sacred
e6ifCs have turned aside from the ordinary
pursuits of busy life to recall the calamity near
this spot year ago and to set Up a memorial
to its victims. There were twenty-eight of them
poor souls in whose case. for some reason be-
yond our ken that pathetic prayer OF our com
mon humanity denied. From sudden DEATH
Good Lord. deliver us!
A train had set out for London with forty
seven passengers just arrived from the New
World and eager to visit or revisit the Oid iuI
of the joy of life and of ali manner OF happy
anticipatiOns. which were brought with startling
suddennesS TO an unexpected end Whether le
came from that hysteria of modern times which
Graves necessarily and at whatever risk the
most feverish speed in rushing from one scene
of amusement or business 10 another. or whether
II was merely due TO a lapse of consciousness OF
OF judgment the part Of one responsible man.
who has gone with the rest to his account, We
may never know All we do know IS tnat tne
train entered dangerous curve at consideraoly
more than double the maximum speed Permltted
by the wise regulations of the company that
there came crash. and that OF those forN-
seven passengers for London a half were
stopped here. 10 await the final trumpet Never
was there a more vivid illustration OF Nr-
Burke's famous expression. about tnOse-
"snatChed from in the middle OF the contest
while their desires were warm and their hopes
as eager as ours. who feeIngly teu Us .Ia.. va
shadows we are and what shadows we pursue
The fate of each victim in the whole long liSt
carried its own awful grief into IT'S own clrcie-
Perhaps 1 may recall 10 you two
There was lawyer. over seventy years OF age.
who recovered consciousness to learn that MS
wife his son and his two daughters were killed
The desperately wounded man feebly replied %
the kind stranger who had 10 break to him TINS
news that left him among the loneliest or human
beings: Yes. will try TO bear up. as You say,
and play the man: but very old In spite
of the gray boards brave resolve, in three days
his years had dropped from hirn-he had re-
but few weeks from college; but "a few DAYS
from the altar The hapless bride had not one
instant for an aguniZed farewell She could oiIy
complete their wedding journey by going back
the next steamer with his mansled and hfe-
less remains
quick sympathy of your queen. and was slngieu
out I'm the dispatch which so moved the hearts
of the great company of Americans gathered m
London for their Fourth of July celebratl2n, |
may venture 10 read it now. as best enoodylhs
the British feeling which inspired the memoriai
YOU have here erected:
buckingham Palace. July 3. 1905.
THE Queen wishes to express through you @ nef
heartfelt sorrow on the occasion of the terrible
lla Vhi hefallpn
fellow countrymen. The Queen feels most deeply
for all their hereaved families. and desires par
ticularly TO offer her waTmeSt sympathy 70 tu9
poor Young widow whose brief married lire mas
been brought 20 so sudden and fearful an end
There was no more touching incident in tne
whole ira sslv than when the nearest American
Consul Colonel Swain. from Southampton Wstt
to the infrmary and carefully read thst disPs,vI
In the car of every survivor. one by one. w
ever found stilI able to hear and understand II
Perhaps I may venture TO quote also the r.
spopse which the poor young widow. then on
the ocean with her husbands body sent when
the gracious message of the Queen nnaLy
reached her in her distant and desolate Ams'-
lean home: ,..s
II am most grateful for her majesty's kindness
and appreciate the tenderness which promp'ea
such an expression. 1t is consolation 20 me III
my trouble to know her thought of me-"
It is right on this occasion TO recall tns'
similar sympathy was shown on every haij haij
You my Lord Bishop. did me the honor 20 80 -
az once in London TO express IT, and oy yIu'
directions your chaplain at the infrmary te1s s
r,raphed daily, and at first twice a day, 10 tns
Embassy reporting the condition OF each one o. o.
the wounded Mr. Frank Baker. the Mayor: =,
bebalf of the citizens of Salisbury, telegrapnea
70 sxnress through me TO the whole American
peoule their deep and heartfelt sympathy, W. -.
an assurance that everything possible wo9u 1s.b h.
vark and Deputy Mayor instantly expresseup
similar feeling So did the members OF tn1
I,ocomotive Steam Enginemen and Firenen
Friendly Society. through Mr.. Wray, their So -,
eraf secretary The dean and chapter or ~
Paul's arranged for a memorial service, WhiS
Was held a few days later before a great con-
eregation in that stately cathedral
of the multitudes of other NOTWITHSTANDING Ssy
nubIic and private beginning with a toucnins
letter from the Master of Trinity and raiisl-5s
tbrough all classes and conditions. / need NJ
further speak They reach their fitting eiiliS; ~
to-day In the memorial YOU are setting up =.
this cathedral to bear testimony. While tr~ rn~
walls endure. to that quick community OF lseHi IN
fSfa nd