The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-12-02 00:00:00

THE CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—A singular and
fatal accident occurred at Sheffield on Tuesday night, at
the terminus of the Midland Railway Company. A
number of carriages were being shunted in order to form
a return excursion train to Chesterfield and Derby, and
either from the engine driver having too much steam
on, or from the negligence of the signalling porter,
they were backed with great violence against the wall,
which forms the end of the station, making a clear
breach, and sending one carriage through into the sta-
tion yard. At this moment some dozen or more people
were passing, but all escaped without serious injury,
excepting one poor woman' who was so severely injured
by the falling of the wall that she died in a few minutes
afterwards. Her name was ascertained to be Crouch,
a resident of Derby, and she had, along with her hus-
band, visited Sheffield on business. Mr. Crouch was a
few feet in advance of his wife, thus escaping injury;
and what is most remarkable, a little girl, who was
sent to show the way to the station, and who had hold
of Mrs. Crouch's hand, was only slightly injured in the
foot. _

Two BHOTHERS DROWNED AT HARROGATE.-017
Monday afternoon Joseph Manby, aged seventeen, and
Benjamin Manby, aged fourteen years, sees of Mr.
Manby, farmer and cab proprietor, Harrogate, went to
a pond formed by an exhausted stone quarry, within
forty yards of their father's house. The water had been
frozen over, and several little boys had already ventured
a few feet from the edge. The young Manbys, after
being a few minutes on the ice, struck into the oentre
of the pond, when the ice gave way. They shouted to
their sister, who was. watehing them from the bank,
and she rashed forward to save them, but in a few steps
she found herself nearly up to the neck in water, and
bad some difficulty in escaping with her own life. Her
screams, added to those of the children present attracted
her parents and the neighbours to the spot, and efforts
were made to rescue the drowning youths by means of
poles, pitchforks, &c. At length a raft was rapidly
made and launched. By its aid the bodies were raised
to the surface of the water locked in each ethers arms,
but before they wild be landed the death grasp was
relaxed, and one of the bodies fell into the water again.
It was, however, found in a few minutes and brought to
land and conveyed to the father's house. Nearly three
qunrters of an hour had elapsed before the bodies were
recovered. Life was of course extinct, and two fine
athletic youths, who less than an hour before had left
their father's house full of life and spirits, lay in that
house cold and lifeless.
FRIGHTFUL OCCURRIENCIL—A WOMAN IMMERSED IN
Ifiratot,.—A few days ago • shocking occurrence took
place at the Bone Boiling and Crushing Factory, Fore-
street, Lambeth, to • young woman named Elizabeth
Clarke, who was employed at the factory, when in
creasing a platform she slipped and fell into a vat of
vitriol which had been left uncovered, and she was
immersed in the burning liquid up to the waist. Her
shrieks brought several of the workmen to the spot
who were severely burnt about the hands and arms in
extricating her. She ems carried in excruciating agony
to Westminster Hospital, where her clothes were found
to be completely destroyed, portions of the skin and
flesh coming away with the remnants of them, and she
was not expected to survive more than a few hours.