The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-10-26 00:00:00

Dtbonobtre.

RAILWAY Accrnewr.—A serious accident, and
one which might have been attended with fatal re-
sults, occurred on Tuesday morning at the Exeter
static* of the Brietel and Exeter Railway. It ap-
peered that the down mail trim n arrived at the Exeter
platform at 3 31. The. engine, Poet-office tender,
4., were taken off in the usual way, and the engine
wee oath. South Devon bridge, putting back to the
platform the Fbet-oltioo tender, when. a Main eon-
Wining soldiers on their way to Plymouth approached
the station at an unusual epeed. The switchman,
kering shit a oollision was inevitable, signalled the
mini engine to go ahead. Before any further precau-
tions could be taken, however, the troop train ran
into the mail train carriages which were standing at
the platform. The carriages were driven on the
South Doren briihpv eilete "19! into wiliak'n
with the Post-Miloe tender, he. The oonsequenee
was thpie INlemß.pereppe—eteoeg whom were three
oonviete, a mall guard, and a wildier—reosived con-
tusions, but none of e serious character. Medical
assistant* mu 'mu proeuricit and every attention
was shown to the persons Owed by the superin-
tendent of the station, Mr. Mears. No blame oan be
attached to any .of the otiloialeof the St. David's
station, inasmuch es the signals were all showing
danger at the time the 'seep train Arrived, and the
switchmen were at their posts. The engine•driver
and stoker of the the troop Wein Minn no bleats to
any one. Ae, however they can give no eatisiketory
mount of their condeei in reference to the *midi/lit,
and as they ipponr to be the milpakie pennon, Mr.
'leste has plead them it custody tintil an inquiry
0411 have been inithitted. The engine.driver,
°Gorge Leech% end the Annan, Henry "Pope, wore
at ode taken into custody as the oulpeble parties,
end on Wednieday, tlAv
_were brought bare the
Meyer of Exeter, (Mr. 'Beeper), at the Guildhall.
From the ovideMie &kluged it appeared thM the
morning was very dark ask many, and on nearing
Dowley--bridge, near Exeter, the red-danger signal
was /bible, m wall a+ twe other danger signals
wares the station. The engineer sounded the
I whistle for the breaks to be applied; this wee done
by Inspector Green, and i porter. It wee Mated that
She train wae going it! speed hater than usual on
nearing the station, and that was the roam it could
Apt be arrested. On the other hand it was urged that
the metals being wet the break. eould not be brought
to beer with, proper force ; if they had been, no
collision would have °courted. Levoir is an old
' servant of the eompany, and resolved a good charac-
ter, Pope had also been in the oompany'r employ
seven years, and nothing was said against him. In
oetwequenee of the good cheraoter given to the de-
fondante the bench iniiieted the mitigated penalty
of £5, with the alternative of a month's imprison-
noustiv.—A most successful archery fate came
off leet week M Dawlish, when Mr. Aubrey Patton,
of Bishop's gull, Taunton, obtained the prise for
the first gross more end hits (including medal,) 604
—supposed to be the highest score ever made ill the
south of Devon.