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Show NY KILLED AillRED Terrible Catastrophe Caused by Train -Jumping Track in England. Accident Occurred on a Sharp Curve, and Twenty-three People Are Killed and Many Injured, the Victims Being Passengers From America. Salisbury, England. Driving nt a mnd paco over tho London Southwestern, Southwest-ern, railway, tho American line express, ex-press, carrying forty-threo of tho Btoamcr Now York's passengers from Plymouth to London, plunged from tho track Just after passing tho station hero nt 1:50 o'clock Snndny morning nnd mangled to death In Its wrcckngo twenty-threo passengers who sallod from Now York June 23, and four ot tho trainmen. Besides thoso to whom death canio speedily a dozen persons wcro Injuri'd, somo of them seriously. Tho lato hour of the Now York's arrival ar-rival at Plymouth saved many lives. Sho cnrrlcd moro than sixty trnvelers for London, but many ot them elcctod jt travel on comfortably to Southampton Southamp-ton In preference to tho Into landing pt Plymouth nnd tho long night rldo across tho country. If the New York had mado a faster passago the somber roster ot tho dead nnd injured would hnvo been longer. Tho surviving passengers nnd train. nion describe tho sound of tho wrcclc is llko tho dlHchnrgo of a scries ot heavy guns of variod caliber, and when tho crashing of tho wreck was past thero came calls ot the Injured, somo jhrleklng with pnln nnd foar and others oth-ers moaning as If bewildered by tho shock. Relief came quickly, although It was an hour boforo tho last body wan dragged from tho wreck,. |