A TRAIN WRECKED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8172, 3 July 1906, Page 5

A TRAIN WRECKED.

TWENTY-EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED. Received July 2, 1.30 p.m. July 1. An American boafc train, travelling between Devouport and Waterloo, watt wreoked at Salisbury by jumping the rails. Twenty-eight were killed and twelve injured. LATER PARTICULARS. HOW THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED. A MILK TRAIN ALSO DERAILED. THE BOAT EXPRESS COLLIDES WITH AN ENGINE. PASSENGERS PRECIPITATED Jj-ROM A'BRIDGE TO THE STREET J3ELOW. ONE CARRIAGE SMASHED TO SPLINTERS. THE GUARD'S PRESENCE OF I MIND. A PLUCKY FIREMAN. Received July 2, 9.40 p.m. LONDON, July 2.. The train contained 47 passengers, chiefly arrivals by the liner New Yurk. They were mostly Americans. ■ There wor« a few Canadians. Only the late hour of the steamer's arrival at Plymouth prevented the train from being crowded, the bulk of the passengers remaining on the steamer, and preferring to proeeed to Southampton by sea. Mr MoOlellnu, Mayor of New York, and his wife were amongst those on the train, which consisted of an engine, three flrßt-class carriages, a guard's van and a kitchen. After passing the Salisbury Station the train left the rails at a sharp curve at a point where the line traverses the main street of the town by a bridge with high girders. 1 At the same moment a milk train, passing on the adjoining down line, was also derailed. The engine of the. Boat Express crashed into the guard's van of the milk train, killing the gaard. It then[collided with the girders of the bridge, and finally smashed into another stationary engine. The first carriage, disconnected by the collision, overshot the engine and dashed into the side of the bridge precipitating some of the occupants into the street below. The second carriage waß ground into splinters by colliding with the girders. The third carriage was thrown ucross the rails and wrecked. The guaid's presence of mind in applying the brakes saved the van and the kitchen with a staff of six waiters. i Flames shot up from the engine, but were soon extinguishod. There was a Ereafc escape of gas until it was turned off. 1 The driver and stoker of the Boat ; Express Were killed. The fireman on the stationary engine, who was badly scalded, insisted, on walking to the Hospital, 1 deolaring that the others needed the stretchers more than he did, He died from shook. There were 28 deaths. The injured behaved with muoh heroism. A MILLIONAIRE]AMQNG THE KILLED. Received July 2, 11.13 D.m. j LONDON, July 2. 3 The second carriage contained a 1 family v of rich Americans nsmed Senteil. consisting of a father, \ mother, son and two daughters. All . were killed except the father, who i was badly crushed. J" A' couple, named Copsitt, were on . their honeymoon. The husband, c who was a millionaire, was killed, 3 but bis wife, who was asleep, was un'njured. She is a daughter of ' Judge Dungros, the American Sa- . prome Court Judge. Mr Barwiok, bead of the Toronto ' Bar, Keller, the acrobat, well- . known as the ',human enigma," Mi 1 MoMeeking, the famous breeder oi 7 Kentucky horses, and Mr Piron, the Toronto representative of th< B White Star Line, were among th< - killed. 3 ______ j. . .

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