Salisbury Rail Crash 1906

Date: 1 Jul 1906 [unknown]
Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

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Salisbury Rail Crash 1906

• Date: 1 Jul 1906
• Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
• Victims: 28 dead, many injured
• Cause: The boat train to London crashed into a milk train whilst negotiating a tight curve in the track just past Salisbury railway station. Many of the passengers were wealthy American and Canadian people just arrived from New York. 24 passengers and both train drivers and firemen were killed.

Casualties Name Sourced Bio Connected Category Walter Barwick (abt.1851-1906) K.C., head of the Toronto Bar Yes Yes Yes Yes Louis Cassier (1864-1906), of “Cassiers Magazine”, the “Electrical Review”, and “Engineer” (all of New York), Trumbull, Conn. Yes Yes Yes Frederick Henry Cossitt (1884-1906), New York, son-in-law of Judge Dugros, of the Supreme Court. His wife escaped uninjured. Yes Yes Yes Fireman Sidney Charles Chick (1883-1906) Yes Yes Yes Guard George Chenneour (1868-1906), of the milk train, formerly of Exeter Yes Yes Yes Yes Mrs. C. W. Elphicke, wife of a marine insurance agent, Chicago Fireman Arthur Edward Gadd (1877-1906) of the boat train, of London Yes Yes Yes Mr. Louis Goeppinger Dudley Pierrepont Harding (1876-1906), 15 Grove-road, Balham, London Yes Yes Yes Mrs. Frances Hitchcock Miss Howieson, New York Jules Keller (1866-1906), an acrobat, well known in London under the name “Human Enigma” Yes Yes Yes Rev. Edward L King, St Thomas’ Rectory, Toronto (a letter in whose body bears address Lee Cottage, R.S.O., Devon). He was a native of Devon. Mr. Frank W. Koch, leading clothier and haberdasher, Allentown, Penn. Repeating his wedding tour with his wife after 20 years. His wife and daughter were uninjured. Mr. John E. McDonald, 1,216, West Seventy-second-street, New York, Telephone, Telegraph and Land Company director Mr. Charles F. McMeekin, famous breeder of bloodhorses, Kentucky Mr. Charles A. Pipin / Pipon, representative of the White Star Line, Toronto Driver J. Robins, of the boat train, Nine Elms, London Mr. Charles E. Sentell, 16, Exchange-place, New York Miss Gertrude Sentell Miss Blanche Sentell A lady, with initials “G.M.S.” Supposed to be Mrs. Sentell - her husband alive, the dead are his wife and grown-up children Mr. Gerard Smith, son Muss Eleanor Smith, daughter Mrs. Belle M. Smith, New York, mother Mr. William H. Thompson Mrs. Lilias Hurd Waite, fashionable milliner trading as Lilias Hurd, Fifth-avenue, New York A female not identified

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See also:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_Salisbury_rail_crash
• http://danger-ahead.railfan.net/accidents/salisbry.htm
• Includes a list of the dead and injured Findmypast image 02 July 1906 - “Exeter and Plymouth Gazette” page 3 - Exeter, Devon, England
• 02 July 1906 - “Globe” page 9 - London, London, England Findmypast image