The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-11-04 00:00:00

TIIE CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.—A Scene Of painful in-
terest occurred on Saturday afternoon on the Quai de la
Tournelle. A mason, named Sauvarot, at work on a
scaffolding level with the sixth floor of a house, lost his
balance, and was precipitated from the height. For-
tunately for him, at the distance of about ten feet
beneath the scaffolding was • projection, which the man
caught at in his fall, succeeded in grasping, and thus
rimained suspended over the abyss. The spectators '
below seemed petrified with fear; some, however, with
more presence of mind, hastened to the nearest fire-
station, and some firemen having gone to the top of
the house with ropes, let down the corporal who passed
them under the arms of the man, whose strength was
fast failing him, and so had him hauled up and rescued
from his dreadful position.—Galignani.
MARVELLOUS ESCAPE FROM A :TERRIBLE RAILWAY
CATAISTROPHIL—On Wednesday an excursion train froth
Merthyr and the Hills to London was for a moment
placed in the most imminent peril. It appears that
between the Crumlin station and the magnificent
viaduct that crosses the Western Valleys line from
Newport to Ebbw Vale, at a height of nearly 300 feet,
an engine was engaged in shunting some trucks on the
line, when an excursion train, containing about five
hundred persons, was seen advancing at full apeed. A
collision, attended with the most fearful consequences,
seemed inevitable. To avert what seemed to be an '
impending death of a whole hecatomb of human lives
(for had they been hurled over the sit-cloture, every
soul must have been dashed to atoms), was a result
almost too gratifying ,to be hoped for. Happily, how-
ever, with a presence of mind equal to the emergency,
both engine-drivers, with a united and simultaneous
action, reversed the engines, and although the peril
that at one time threatened the mass of human beings
could not be wholly escaped, the speed of the con-
tending trains was so diminished that in the collision that
followed no lives were lost. Great damage, however,
resulted to the engine;, and the buffer of that drawing
the excursion train was broken short off. The ex-
cursionists were generally severely shaken, some re-
ceived contusions, and, as maybe well imagined, all were
dreadfully frightened, from which they can scarcely
have yet recovered. The screams of the females and of
many of the other sex were fearfully heartrending. The
greatest credit is due to the heroic devotion of the
engine-drivers who, regardless of their own fate, stuck
to their break., and thus reduced what, in the future,
seemed to promise the catastrophe of the century, to a
comparatively trifling affair.
DREADFUL SUFFERINGS AT SEA.—The following
particulars are from the St. Thomas's Times of the Ist
ult. : "The Royal Mail steamship Solent, from Colon,
brought here on Sunday morning last, as passengers,
proceeding to Europe, the captain and owner of the
Italian bark Mia Madre, that foundered in the Pacific.
The Mla Madre, Captain G. Opisso, and belonging to
Mr. Agostino Pedernonte, left Callao on the 27th of
July last with a full cargo of guano, bound to Valencia,
Spain. After beings few days out the vessel was found
to be making water, which increased so rapidly that
on the 15th of August it became necessary to abandon
her when about 1,000 miles from the port she had left:
The ship had three boats; the second mate took com-
mand of one, the first mate of another, and the captain
of the last. The boat of the second mate after some
hoursdisappeared, and a few of her men were saved by
the boat of which the captain had charge and in which
was the owner. The boat of the first mate and the men
in her were entirely lost sight of. In the boat of the
captain, after many days' lingering, five men died, of
whom the second mate was one. The first three corpses
were thrown overboard, and the remaining two were
reserved for the most horrifying purpose that the mind
can well conceive. On the nineteenth day after
abandoning the ship those who were yet in the boat
were picked up by an American whaling vessel, whose
name we omitted to ascertain. This vessel changed her
course in order to land them at the port of Nita, as the
one most likely to give them an opportunity to reach
Panama and thence get to Europe. The owner and
captain express themselves in the most grateful terms
of the captain of the whaler for the extrenie kindness
extended to them while on board, he having in the first
days of their excessive debility personally fed them with
• spoonful at a time of well cooked tea-broth, thus
gradually restoring to them their long-lost strength.

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