The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-29 00:00:00

GILLLNGEAM

FATAL ACCIDINT IN TEI TVNNIL.-011
day afternoon last. an accident of a most melancholy
character occurred in the tunnel near this thatioc on the
Niuth•Western railway, resulting in the death of Mr.
Jes. Butler, the inspector of the permanent way, wl •
resided at Gillingham. It appears that the damaged wag
engaged in iospeeting the ineitis of the tunnel,
view of ascertaining the effect of the repent weather
upon the brickwork and chalk of the interior. The
service of the trains seemed to have been • little out of
order on the afternoon in question, and instead of the
2.25 diem train from salisbury and the express crowing
as usual at Templet:iambs they maned at Oilliogheni.
and it is believed that the deceased not being aware of
Ibis, supposed the down train when it entered the tunnel
to be • ballast engine on the other hos of rails.
Stepping, therefore, as be supposed, out of the way of
the ballast them; he was knocked down and run over
by the down train. The driver and stoker of the engine
of the engine on the darn train fancied they pensive&
some alight shook se they passed the epot where the
deceased was knocked down, but had no ides they had
passed over a holy. When they reaceedramptheanhet
station, however, they were horrified to And a hat on the
buffer plank of the engine, and this, from ito somewhat
peculiar shape, was at onto recognised es the bat of th•
deceased. A goods train was at once tarns to the mouth
of the tunnel, where it was stopped, whilst a search
was made i with lights Inside the tunnel. About
bl yards from the entrance the body of the demeaned
was found lying throes the rails, over which the dews
train bad paned shortly before. Tbe left leg was
completely severed near the knee, and the right side of
the body was very mu& mashed. Life was quite
extinct, and there was very little doubt that death had
been instantaneous. The body was removed lathe
. . . .

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on Thursday at ti • Sonth-Weetern Hotel, Wore Mr.
13•11, coroner. klngFroune, solicitor, wee in attendants.
to watch the proceediega The eintemstancee of their
accident as detailed als.,ve • ere deposed to, and the jury
returned a verdict of secidentel death. The deemeed
wee 41 years of age, married, but without • family. He
wee well known over the dietrie toe the Soutb•Weedern.
line, sod appears to have been greatly respected.

CORPATES.
The first of a proposed series of Penny Reedinge,
took plain in the school room on Tuesday evening.
the Mod, when the following pieties were read and,
sung; the Winds Whistle Cold, Sir. H. Bishop; Duet
Ho, from Good Word.; tho Wreck of the Heeperes,
Longfellow; Lily Sweet Lily, glee by Monk; this
House without Hope, Judge 'Haliburtou ;
Escape, from Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Ohm& and
Crow, Sir H. Bishop; Mr. Pickwick, or twice Join
Gilpin, Cowper; Come when my love, Christy'.
minstrels; Sally Brown, Tom Hood; Jackdaw of
Rheims, Ingoldeby's legends; Hail Smiling Morn,
SpoSorth • a Religious Woman, one of Mrs. Sewell's
homely gonads ; ending with the swirl loyal
anthem. In spite of the torrents of rain the room
was crowded, nor were any of the maim deterred
from attending, although some of them cams from a
distance. The several pieces were received with
marks of approbation, and the ladies.* retired
expressing their satisfection with the good mental
lire with whiohithey Iliad been regaled.
BROAD WLNSOR

No Swoon seccuss ov vim COLD. —A Beidporli
piper of Saturday last hen the following :—" an
evidence of the seventy of the temperature lad week,
we may mentioo that in Chia pariah, notioe was
given by the Rev. 8. C. Maim, that no memo would
be preached on Sunday in the °Munk is ouneegssom
of the oddness of the weather.