East Sheen - Palewell Common Prior to 1905. And a Deadly Rail Crash.

            The Postcard

A postcard that was published by F. G. Case that was posted in Mortlake using a ½d. stamp on Thursday the 27th. July 1905. It was sent to:

Mrs. Thompson,
Tudwick Road,
Witham,
Essex.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"Moving in Saturday.
My new address -
Ashby St. Ledgers,
Nr. Rugby.
Went over to Hounslow
last Saturday, brought
my basket for little
things.
Only got 2 white dresses
at present - the others
will have to be sent.
Will write again soon.
With love,
I remain
I. T."

The Taft–Katsura Agreement

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, on the 27th. July 1905, the The Taft–Katsura Agreement
was reached in Tokyo between U.S. Secretary of State (and future U.S. president) William Howard Taft, and Japan's Prime Minister, Count Katsura Tarō, to discuss their respective positions regarding Korea and the Philippines. 

Although no formal agreement was signed, the U.S. agreed to Korea becoming a protectorate of Japan, in return for Japan's recognition of U.S. jurisdiction over the Philippines.

President Roosevelt

Also on that day, Japan's new ambassador to the U.S., Baron Komura Jutarō, along with Foreign Minister Takahira Kogorō, met with U.S. President Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill, his home in Oyster Bay on Long Island in New York.

A Deadly Rail Crash

Also on the 27th. July 1905, twenty people were killed in the derailment of a Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway train near Liverpool.

What is known as the Hall Road rail accident at Blundellsands in what is now Merseyside also saw 48 passengers injured. 

The deaths and injuries occurred when two Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway electric passenger trains collided due to human error on the part of a signalman and a train driver.

The empty local train had been shunted into a siding in order to allow the express to pass; however the points failed to close properly. The signalman worked the points back and forth three times, but he left the points set for the siding.

The express was diverted into it, and struck the rear of the local train, killing 20 people in the front coach of the express after telescoping occurred. 

In a railway accident, telescoping occurs when the underframe of one vehicle overrides that of another, and smashes through the second vehicle's body. 

The term is derived from the resulting appearance of the two vehicle bodies: the body of one vehicle may appear to be slid inside the other like the tubes of a collapsible telescope – the body sides, roof and underframe of the latter vehicle being forced apart from each other.

Telescoping often results in heavy fatalities if the cars telescoped are fully occupied.

Both drivers survived, having jumped clear prior to the impact.
   

Taken on: December 19, 2024

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