The Press. — London, England, 1853-10-08 00:00:00

J 38 ricciinnts anb Otitntes. APPALLINO 11111. WAY .1(701)h:NT. Inn.%No has been the smite of a eittastmphe more fertile! in character probably than any that have hitherto iweitrrial to darken the brilliant success of railway locomotion. The site of this tragedy was near the Stniffan station, about six mites from lhlllin, on thc. Great Southern and Western of Ire land .‘ passenger train up from Killarney and the south was brought to a standstill at that point through slime defect in the engine on Wednes day evening. Fearful of eollisioti from billowing trains, many of the passengers alighted, but after wards, trusting to the precautions taken and the dis play of signals, almost all of them resumed their seats. Wier.. the train moved on, however, an up cattle convoy apprea.liell, and the driver, disregard ing all the danger signals, ran on with uneheeloal speed until his lenity train dashed right upon the tail menage of the passenger Mall. The emise iptences were of the most awful nature. The cattle train went clean through the eanite.. , ,e it struck, a sheet (-lass, and drove several more of those in trout into a heap of ruins. The passenger-engine and two ca rriage:, broke loose from the couplings, and were shot on ler nearly a mile past Straffint station by the sills k. Among the pa.ssettgers was Captain James Collis, who fortnnately got tint of the train when it came to a stand. Ills example wits followed by a few other gentlemen, bet only four, viz., Mr. Connor, of Newbridge; Mr. Kelly, of the same place ; Mr. switch, of .trinteth ; and an English gentleman, whose name he did not ascertain, remained upon the embankment. with him. The others all unfortimately rentriied to their carriages. The English gentleman was aceompaniell by his sister, his wife (It beautiful ye 'tine I 11, and their Add, an infant of about nine months. Another passenger, a Ir. Jelly, of Maryborough, !tool talking ill the doorway of their caniage. Olt hearing that a train WWI coining, the ladies watitisl to get out, lint the gentleman advised them to stay as they were, and wits about to get in himself. when the collision 15)4 pinee. 11r. Jelly was instantly decapitated. Isit his legs cut elf, and his Islay tont to pieces. The ladies were both killed, and the agony of the enrol-titivate husband and brother when he east himself upon the lifeless lusly of his young wife was guile illiieseriliable. The baby was extricated alive front under its unhappy - mother a - el aunt. Some farther details of this tragedy are l'olllllllllll - by Captain Colby, who lIITIVed in 1)ullliu by midnight, after exerting himself indefatigably is aiding the sittterers. llefere his d e p a rture h e saw fourteen dealt bodies, and helped to extricate about fitly wlllilidell Ito states Her pa,.iuglhr Sallies station the engine went shawl ) . null stopped about halt' ri of the:steam station. Five passengers gig out with lite, Isle Of melee. :11r. Jab-, got in again. \lr. 11.1:er ha-lingual, the solicitor to the 1 - 11111.1111.1, sent one of the railway servritts down the line with a red lamp to stop the luggage and cattle train that we kluett WAS about hall an home isalind us. lie 111111 I.smi paw alsont ten lir lill/ . 191 1111Mill'S. When We saw the lights of the cause train approtteltitio. I. all thomghL of isnirse, it was l 0111011..: 1114111 g quite ;lOW. I Striped eleSe• is. the line lull east my toe along, %hulk I SSA by the re ileetion of the light upon the rails that it was coming at fall speed, and I sward lo the heat of the engine that the steam was not 1.11.'41 off. lat l.llee 511.1111141 I lisl! Mlle is lellllllllQ at f u ll speck : 11/11k 1/111 1.0411 i I/111 111111 I illlll o l.ll user the truce into the field and hiked r mud me. I saw the catch' train run right into the her e.ti'lr , sge of the passengt•r train—iiislev•l. tint right it. his au i n st a nt all Wa s a pile o f n un. I INS hock qua saw till. driver of the cattle train, who seemed !unrifled at the lie lamity. 1 asked him, was he hurt ? lb. replitsl, No. hut 11l n ever get over it." Ile thorn pronsslol to 11.4%14 1111 . W1.11114e11 1/.1,11 . 111.10 . 4. I Ileeeeteett that tile Meant tans bullet gesteratetl, owl that in a minute more we would all hhatis awn) to the explosion of the engulf*, and I sang salt ror the etigiueer and hid bill' 15155 w off th e stems. lie 411,1 so. Mill t h en WS Net to trork. The fist sight I value 1111 was Ills. 114415.5 iii.:l.l. Tits y lay on the bank 555 if they hind been slim oa t, o f the them was a iniest, or friar, er monk. Ile was quite 51,051. hing dose to the rails, as if he had Issit thrown agrihst the embankment null had relssiontled bad:. I nett saw mria, both of whose thighs wen. broken Seeess. Nte—es. hell% slid Clllllllll' 111111 I 1/11111 . 11 11;111 1/111 fr./111 1111t11•1' ruins of the eaniaezes. hie ttas livieg, mot we Milt him upon the bank. tte wen• then attracted lo the cr ies 4.1 * *144, Whose blind %AS )31:1 11 1.4 )...1W. 411 the eitiritrzeg. ller sister lay near her, untiee teal or I After labouring rely hard for some time we failo.l b. 5 xtric,oss them, and had to turn to others while more assistance wa s pris.tinsl. From a 1114111 ilf When . We , aa shawls. lists. „ oi l h au, lkenehiefs , we ,„.‘. got ,„ ‘t „ bo y , greativ disfigured. but still alive. We then came to the both. of 31 which nada ' me aly hi s head being torn and staabhod till'--his 1 1 ,41 Isoth ea t his Issly hint itp. tool his ehalitis aunt all off him. I a d. lusted his ehlthes, and we pat the body :wide. and rl . Olll 11 . .111* 111111 we gl4 the 1 / 1 /1111A of the Eit.41611 g.mtleitm's wife 511151 sister. Poor fellow ! Ile throw himself mailly tit is the body of his wife, and kissed h e r fratitieally. and then we lot the little baby, from ler her and the mines clothes. alive. We then went to the hist-Own carriage that haul been first struck lo the engine. ants there we saw the bodies of two belies, apparently eat in two at the waist. THE PRESS. They Were so jammed is that we could trot get at them. Near them maa the body of another lady whose dress only we could see. she was so bruised in tltu ruins. The cries of a little Is then attracted tile. lle wits about eight years old. Ile lying under the axletree of a carriage, which had broken both his little legs, and was lying across them. With great difficulty au got hint out by raising the axle aids a entWitr. I then returned with more help to the two ladies, one of whose bands was jammed, and we got them out. I don't know whether the insensible tasty was dead or not, but I think she Wle4. her on the I•;uik, The other was nut 1111101 hurt. We next discovered the body of a very large man under the train. Ilia head was cut off and gone. We found iso trace of it. Both his legs were cut ott also from the thighs down. We gut out the remains and placed them on the hunk. I was at this t• • a good deal exhausted, having worked very hard. Sir E•lwanl lienswsly now came up. lie haul been a passenger in one of the etilTiageki next the engine, %Welt heal lovell shot on by tlw eotlisiuu. lb- had escaped unhurt, and had mi t tens' every assit,ltiliee to the 1/11ShellgerS ill ilium! tat. e:llThiges. He then retnniel down the lilac to help there, and took the command from me, to my great relief, for was •psite worn out. I CIIIIIIO ot tell you how hard he worked, as Mao did those gentlemen whose names I have mentionesl, and, indeed, every one, railway people, country people, and all. I broke oil a piece of n carriage, and helped to make a litter of it, on width we /slaves' a lady who had her Lao 14' :s broken, and the English gentleman's little child, and took them to a house convenient. Sir Edward Kennedy sent fur a doctor and a priest at once. Seeing that some people wen. pieking up carpet-bags, I suggested the neces sity of the luggage being guardesl, which was at one done. Ms sins. Kelly, Connor, Leitch, and 1 then walked on to Siratlass, thinking we had seen all the damage, and out knowing ablest the two carriages that had been shot airily. In the statiownsom eight or • • people were lying side by side. I hie of them seemed dead. He wits a Mr. Egan, sof Vim. Ills laxly was at once tenoned. A priest was hearing the confession of another, who evidently had very few moments left hint in this world. The de ul bodies were removed from tlw room. M, Itsriiugtott was iu smother room in the station, very badly hurt I heard. I Me of the ladies I saw at the statism had her chest broken in. I don't think she would live till lthrniing. Sev f o l l had their legs broken. Osw servant boy, who we. very badly hurt, had titian sent by Sir Edward ke !sly. ti, his own err, 10 Slime hospital in the neighlrourhowd. There was a tootle:II gentleman present. who was dosing all in his power to alleviate the sistfolings of the wounded. 1 believe there Were set end metlieal gentlemen, but 1 am not sure anion. than one. The Hon. E. Lawless was there surging very hard; and there ails amt. young man, a dealer, named John Rooney, aho was going titian in the Kilkenny train Uhell he head alt' the artistes', at the statiim. Ile at once threw up his passage, quitted t h e 41.11 train, mud stet aork to hullo the will'erens in a twist extraordinary tuasitier. s ue t, vi ne a t' Host kindness and gentleness a s he ex hibit e d emi t,' w i t he si t erwsed. A trails was got 11.4101 Y abllllt half' rag 44 . 1.1114. k, and by it I come to t4IWII. W 4 OITIVeiI nt the IX ing••.-brislge tenainum althea 1'! 11 . 11.1444. k. Ntither the shiner 1141 r stoker of the cattle train aas injured. A DisAsTr.tt of a frightful character occurred at Preston, in lameashire, on Nlondny night, by the full of the floor of a MOM containing nearly three hundred people. The ultimate consequeuees of this casualty it is impossible to anticipate: one woman W:1.4 killed upon the spot, and from forty to fifty other p44iple were more or less injure'', many of them nowt seriously, and several. it. was feared, mortally. The day was that on which the turn-out factory hands in Preston waived their weekly allowance from the trade committeoin lieu of wage's. A body of card-room hands, ltetween two and three hundred in number, accordingly assembled at a public.' se called the Ciaporation Arms, to receive their money. .k few minutes before eight an alarming crash, sue eeetled by piercing she eks, attracted attention to the hat k iimitises of the tavern. It was then found that a beam had snapped, and the floor having 'waled precipitated the crowd of people into the chasm, a depth of alsint twelve feet. It is impossilole to comey an Odra of the scene presented by this dense 1111145 of human beings heaped together in ap parontly inextricable confusion, and mitre:int; from injuries of almost eery description. To drag them one by the thlnewaY was 0 work of no small difficulty, oust acthely oecupial dots,• who to( Ili part in it ab i ,nt half an hour. The door hail parted in the centre like a pair of folding doors, and in couse q ueue e those who occupied the initiate of the room were the rliief sittliTerit, as they not only fell through th e opetting the entire depth to the ground tlisir, lint were itunieiliately Marled unaernenth ~ .4S being at the sides or ends of oho a p ar tm en t, s li ppe d down the sloping boards upon them. Some few elttng to the windows until reseuctl by the ilia of hat ers . Th e majority of the suffere:s were yowle r ; forales : many SCCllleildt'ad when extricated. halt re vival tinder the influence of stimulants and fresh were found to comprise fractures of all deseriptions—ribs, lets, and arms. (the young woman was found deal, crashed or suffocated beneath the mass of sutlivers. llrrunt.te Tx rizmANv.—The late T,oril of Hamburg, I r . Itartels. the well litit , wit trot eller MIA anther In Sicily, ha.% beet) honoured by an especial tnenwir 1111 hi , IVO. It is entitled 3le merits viri to•lanittri 3. 11. Bartels, lteipubliete hiatu. but geflais ti;t-se‘s Ctbrentis." sporting. SATURDAY, CHESTER AUTUMN MEETINtI.--Tt-Ebu. t~•. Wt.Ll'sl'.% kES of 3 rovs : cash, with 311 added, for two-year-olds. Mr. Copelanito Sister to Maid of Itt•hum:sm.. (Wells ) 1 Mr. T. l'areo Mary Mr. li. Taylor'it 'zarina :t Mr. Cop lan Field 31aroltal betting: hto 1 against Mary, to against Czarina, :1 to I againot Sister to Maid of 1 trlantere. Won by half a length. 01101 L 's DANN(' %I. of 10 80%6. each, with :)0 )11.1t11211. Lord Calettou'rsliitettyer &11 ' cll~► 311.. E. IL Clarks Puna•l► Box The following also nw :—l'aNtryeutik, Mists Agnes, hiltaltle.ton, The Surveyor, The General, Eliza. !letting : 3 to I against The tienentl, t to I each egitinst ranch Box, Kitt.il3ef, and Eliza. \Von easily by tt SEI.I.IX4i Si \kl.:s ro sit Ts. elleb, with All added. Mr. 6taidard's Priam the Third ( %Veils) 1 Jr. ti. Taybir's Lady in Waiting INN PLATE ( ) illhovs:. Mr. heneh's ;Master Slender (T. Chile) 1 Mr. Coma's Ellie Dean.; Mr. Clioyee's Betting: *.! to I against Muyilay, 1 to 1 tiguinbt Mader Slender. Won eleyerl) . by a length. ill OSTWN Sr! krs of 10 sovs. each, with 10 k idded. Mr. Ileiklatifs Stiletto ( A klerotl ) 1 Mr. French's Vaultreiiii Betting: ro to a on Vaultrs, 3 to 1 against bateau. 11'ou by a length. I\•coNESIIA V. TRAVESMANS ‘41:1:111.1t l' oI'JII boys. _ Mr. I htwson's Tilt! Italian (Capt. Haworth) 1 Mr. 'liver's Ethe!wolf Mr. Moseley's Alonzo 3 ' Mix ran. Betting : i to I against Ethelwolf, i to !..! against Alonzo, awl Ito I against The Italian. Won by a head. ri.ATE %Pi hOVIS. ..( T. Clitk) 1 lilirseley's It )))) leo Sir .1. 11,,, ell's Led Ni. K. H. Clark's Wilititr NO :.;TANL) STANI:S Of lu MO'::. Vaal, With .10 ad Ie 1, fur tava~w•-u1~L:. Mr. redley's Lally Napier • (('harlton) I )IE. 31eiklatit's Stiletto Mr. Ilhlthew•'s eh. f. Sister to Stattonl .. Prusr: of MI MA'S., tuldeel to K sweepstakes of '2 goys. tuck Mr. E. 11. Clarks Winter (F. Matson) I Mr..l. 4 hibunie's 3liss Agnes Mr. Aloseley's Romeo TII iS 1164.4! HN>l tothstituted for the 44) bu lb. Selling Stakes, %%hick did not 1111. llANotetr rAht:s of sovv., added to a evithtakeg of :, SO% S. Cal . ll. 111. I•:. V. 4.lAirk's (F. Nlarson, jun.) I 1.4,111 (*nle4lon's Kite tlvc :%! Is. I awson's A hntlltrinutl 3 The fallowing Asa ran :--linligerfool, Ludy Evelyn, Nancy, 61,itliole, lladeline, \lmam. lietting: 7 to '2 against Hongerfortl, 4 to 1 catch against Nancy I Lotly Evelyn, 41 to I against line!Vet., to I against Annie Sutherland, Intl ton against Missive. Atter a somewhat em.iting finish, Missive achieved the victory by a length. aijclanb. Tim supply of flaxseed and the st areity of copper coin in Ireland formed the subjects ofrepresentations made by Mr. Davison, M.P. for Belfast., to the Board of Trade and the Treasury. Of the former article he estimated that ;u,INNII. worth was iinported an nually into Dentist from the Baltic, together with Immiumfactured tlax to five times that. amount. The pending political tlifficulties with Russia and possible war, lie observed, rendered merchants exceedingly apprehensive, stopped the forwarding of (inlets. and perilled the prosperity of the staple manufacture of Belfast. 'fir this representation Mr. Cardwell has replied officially that" the Clovernment are considering the subject." Respecting copper coin. of which the want had been much telt among the Irish populatimi, 31 1.. I /avison had written to request the transutis , n u of :I,IN Nil. in that species or currency to Belfast. 11e has now received a letter front the Mint, staring that. the establishment will very speettily be in a position to remit the ix-mired supply, either at once or in port Flo 01 a return moved for I Capt:tin .lours, and just is , ned, it appears that the net produce of the reventic of Ireland paid into the tie year ended stlt January, is:;;1, amounted to 4,..:mi,;f1 4/. items ore :—Custians, 1,/s:ai,lliol.; excise, 1,-1;5,051V.; stamps, .04,3; 11. ; hereditary reNt'lltle, :iINl1.; miscellaneous, 4; ; The eNpenaitme was 3,s91,11:11.; and the loom y remaining in the Exchequer, 1,1 "it 1.s0:11. The gr-ss income from eXei''o Wit*. ; cII , IOIIIS, '2,040,4691. lic.-petrator of the laic suicide in French strevi ha. heenidentitioil as t Mr. 3l•Fallati, formerly a clerk to a (iht..gtoW . 1 11111 of wool-merchants, 3lessr-. 3litir and Co., whom he ha.t itcfratulc(l of i by means of a forged cheque in August last : he had since alisconde‘l, and no truce could be found of hiss wi:ereabout