The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-01-29 00:00:00

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- SATURDAY, JAN. 29, 1876vrirrk.

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Leech Mr. Wood also took the further preedution of
ordering beds to be prepared at the "George" Hotel, a
very large establishment in the town and the anthori-
ties of the county hoTital were advised of he pro-
bability of all the aid at their dispebal being required
during the night.
" Tt has been mentioned that Mr. Johnson, engineer
in &lief of the Great Northern Railway, was at Don-
caster on Friday. He left that place for London by
a train following the Scotch express, and upon reach-
ing Peterborough heard of the accident. He lost no
time in procuring assistance. Mr. Rouse, locomotive
superintendent of the district, immediately got to-
gether a breakdown gang, who were conveyed by
special train, and with Mr. Johnson and himself, they
proceeded to Abbot's Ripton. Travelling cranes and
all needful appliances were taken with them, and upon
their arrival at the spot not a moment was boa in
getting to work. By this time such of the sufferers as
could be extricated had been sent back to Hunting-
don, the rear carriages of the Leeds express' which
were uninjured and remained upon the metals, being
used for their transport. A few persons, among whom
was Mr. Foster' Town Clerk of Halifax, preferred
naakirg use of the carriages sent down by Mr. Wood,
and travelling. by goad. A few ladies and two or three
gee:tlemen took -t-p their quarters in the platelayers'
cotteges hard by, where the housewives busied them-
selvel, in making pots of hot ter.; the only stimulant
at hand, which, in the straits td V;hich their unexpected
vigitcrs had been reduced, proved very acceptable. "
".Ir. Cockehott reached- Huntingdon by special
train from London at ten p.m., and upon learning from
Mr. Wood the scriona nature Of the aecident, now
confirmed by the arrival of many of the injured per-
sons from Abbot's Ribton' he thought it desirable to
telegraph to London, desiring Mr. T. Carr Jackson, of
Harley-street, consulting surgeon of the Great Nor-
thern Railaray Company, and other medical men to
come immediately to Huntingdon.

"Mr. Cockshott then proceeded to Abbot's Riptou,
where he was subsequently joined by Mr. Oakley from
Leeds. All the wounded having already been removed
to Huntingdon, the painful duty of searching among
the frngments for the dead now fell upon Mr. Cockshott,
and under his superintendence this distressing labour
Was continued throughout the night, and up to an ad-
vanced hour on Saturday morning. The result was that
the bodies of six ladies, three gentlemen, and three
Youths, the eldest of whom appeared about 19 years of
age, were extricated, making a total of 12 deaths upon
the ground. The bodies presented, almost without an
exception, the appearance of death having resulted
from suffocation. Few had sustained serious cuts or
laceration of any kind, and as each body was extricated
the remains were decently disposed and the features
covert:id with linen cloths prior to their removal to
Huntingdon, where all were deposited in the hospital
mortuary to await the Coroner's investigation.

Count Schouvaloff, Russian Ambassador; Lord
Colville, Mr. Cleghorn,' and several other passengers
lii both the up and down trains returned to London by
BPecial train from Huntingdon at an early hour on
Saturday morning.
The engineer's staff, under Mr. Johnson's personal
direction' worked with so much industry that, although
both lines were heavily blocked, two rails knocked out,
and three or four others twisted, the up line was open
for traffic at 7 30 a.m., and the down line at 9 a.m. on
Saturday. The iuteruptio 1 of traffic had been very
serious, as practically no trains were worked north of
Huntingdon between seven o'clock on Friday evening
and seven o'clock on Saturday morning.
"The Scotch express on Friday was made up of the
Usual powerful engine and tender employed upon this
traffic, a six-wheeled guard's brake, two composite
carriages of the North-Eastern Railway Company, six
coaches belonging to the united East Coast comoanies,
and a rear guard's van. The train was under the con-
duct of Mr. M'Dermott, a well, known and careful
officer of the Great Northern Railway Company, with
Charles Day as his rear guard.
"The Leeds express was drawn by the bogie envine
shown at the late Stephenson celebration at Darling-
ton, with Rix-wheeled tender, and guard's brake van.
The leading, or York portion, consisted of North-
Eastern , carriages— one third-class, two composite
coaches, and one van. The West Riding portion was
made up of one composite coach, one third-class, and
ope second-class, with brake van. The Bradford por-
tion. consisted of one third-class, one composite coach,
a similar carriage for the Halifax branch, and one
composite for Hull, with guard's van in the rear. The
train MO driven by Wilson, an old and trusted ser-
vant. Wills was the guard in charge of the leading
carriages, and he states, without any reserve, that in
opnsequence of the blinding sn, iwstorm he saw no
Blgnal after pas.-ing St. Neot's. Wills was badly hurt
About the face, but has suffered no serious injury. Simp-
son was in charge of the middle portion of the train,
and Robertson was the rear guard. The latter de
dares that in many years' experience he never saw, it
,
snow so heavily as on Friday night." ,
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The
_.owing is a list of the passengers killedpad
injured : , -fttcro‘i
KILLED.
Mr. "James Sanderson, land surveyor, and agent to the
Marquis of Exeter, resident in Brecknock-road, with offices
in Pall-mall east. Mr. Sanderson was 54 years of age, and
besides the Exeter agency held other lucrative appointments.
He Was a passenger in the Scotch express, but is in no degree
related to a family named Sanderson who were also travel-
Hog by the same train, and who, as will be seen below, have
'Uttered terribly, two daughters having been killed and the
father and mother seriously hurt.
Mr. Ben Jolliffe. of Yafford-house, near Shorwell, in the
Isle of Wight, gentleman farmer. Mr. Jolliffe met his death
Under peculiarly distressing circumstances. Ile was return-
ing with' a friend from Edinburgh, and althouglathe carriage
in which they were travelling was thrown over on to its side
by the collision with the coal waggons, neither Mr. Jolliffe
nor his friend suffered except by the shock, from which they
sPeedily .recovered, and applied themselves with great
activity to assisting other passengers not so fortunate
as themselyes. in this way they hail already
tendered valuable aid to severrl ladies, when Mr. Jolliffe
aPPears to have gone forward with a view of ii:epectiog
More closely the wreck of the engine and front
coaches of the train, the first three or four of which were
broken U. While thus engaged the Leeds down express
Was rapidly approaching Abbot's Ripton, although un-
observed by Mr. Jolliffe, probably owing to the noise arising
from the steam blowing off the Scotch engine, then lying.
broadside on the slightly rising embankment on the down
aide of the railway. Mr. Jolliffe stood here unconscious
of danger up to the moment when the Leeds express
dashed through the broken fragments of the Scotch
train, and then itself rolling over on to the downside
embankment, crushed Mr. Jolliffe beneath its ponderous
weight. He died in a very few moments. Mr. Jolliffe
was 34 years of age, and farmed an estate at Yafford
belonging to his widowed mother, who survives him.
M-isiElizabeth 'Burdon-Sanderson, aged 27 years, eldest
dsugr of Mr Richard Burdon-Sanderson, of Budle house,
New tle-Upon-Tyne. This young lady was travelling with
her father, mdther, younger sister, and only brother, in the
Stotauexpress. She had not suffered severely from the first
collision, and her brother, who is a law student in the
Temple, was endeavouring to assist her out of the wrecked
carriage in which the f ,mily were riding, when the Leeds
expresilarriVed, and crushing over the spot where the broken
carriages lay, ran through the compartment in which Miss
Sanderson was fixed by some portion of a broken carriage,
knlinit her instantly. Her body was afterwards found beneath
one okthe carriages on the down line.
„Mhie, Margaret,;Burdon-Sanderson, aged 24 years, sister of
the Preceding, This lady was also comparatively uninjured
until after the Leeds express had immolated the Scotch train.
She was then found entangled among the iron fi amework of
one of the -parriages, where her brother found her. She I
complained that she had lost all sensation below the waist,
and died in a few moments attar giving utterance to this ex,
Presdepi. •
1.
Mrillitirosbery 'svas travelling as a first-clans passenger in
a Glasgow carriage. She was accompanied by two grown
Up dmighters—Miss G. Fosberi and Miss H. Fosbery. 'fhese
tadlea were first identified by marks upon their linen, and
pn Sunday all doubts were set at rest by the arrival at Hun-
tingdon of a member of the family, who gave personal evi-
dence to their identity. They were seated facing the engine,
and, as far as appearances can be trusted, they must all
have been killed at the same moment by one of the Leeds
express coaches, which, mounting the Glasgow carriage,
crushed in its root A bottle of champagne, unbroken and
With its label unsoiled, was taken out of the net rack of the
Carriage in which these ladies were killed.

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Dion William Boucicault. aged 21 yoars, eldest son of
Au% Bcticicault, the dramatic author and actor. This young
Illan had been on a visit to some friends in Lincolnshire,
Whence he was returning on. Friday evening by the Scotch
express. ills remains were recognised by his visiting cards
and other documents found on his person. Mr. and Mrs.
rinudlcault were notkaware that any accident had happened
UPon the Great Northern Railway, and it was not until after
the termination of their performance in the Shaughraun at
the Adelphi Theatre on Saturday evening that they were in-
form.ed of the loss they had sustained. The intelligence was
convoyed to them by Mr. Christopher Heath, who had been
to ahntingdon in prof.-s.ional attendance upon some of the
sufferers ; and the remains were on Sunday positively
identified by an uncle of the deceased—Mr George Bondi-
caul* •

MAT Herbert Westerman Noble, aged 19 years, son of Mr.
Matthevr Noble, the sculptor, of Bruton-chambers, Berkeley-
Square. This young gentleman was returning from a shoot-
ing excursion in Lincolnshire. Mr. and Mr& Noble were
Unaware of their distressing bereavement until informed ny
Mr; •Fotbes, upon whom they called to make inquiries on
Saturday afternoon.
llrs..Allgood, wife of the Rev. James Allgood, M.A., rector
Of Ingram, near Alnwick. Mrs Allgood was travelling with
her two BODE, who at Peterborough left their mother in order
to get into a smoking carriage, LI which Lord Colville was
travelling. Both youths were killed, as well as their mother,
from which it will be understood how marvellous was the
escape of Lord Colville. The identity of the Allgood family
was ver.fied on Sunday by Mr. Fenwick, a director of the
North-Easteru Railway, who went down to Peterborough by
'Pedal train.

Mr. Thomas M. More, of rerreton, Ayrshire, aged 34
Years, a member of the Scotch Bar Mr. Mure's left leg
Was smashed, he had a severe contusion of the left eye, and
aliffered a great shock to the system. Mr. More was con-
veyed to the Huntingdon jounty Hospital, with very small
hope of recovery, and he died in that institution at an early
hour on Sunday morning. The friends of this unfortunate
gentleman had arrived at Huntingdon from Scotland before
his decease.
INJURED.

There were 20 passengers in the up and down trains who
suffered more or less from the two collisions. They may be
enumerated as follows :
Mt s Richard Burdon-Sanderson, aged 57 years, of Dudle-
honse; Newca;stle-upon-Tyne. Mr. Sanderson, who is father
(if UIO twd deceased young ladies above described, is suffer-
g .a' broken leg, with fractured right arm and collar
uOne, He sustained a severe shock to the system, and was
takge to the "Gieorger " Hotel, HUntingdon, under care of the.
°"l•4ledieal Mr. Sanderson is brother of Dr, John
01.,17§andiirson, of Queen Anne ,street,. London.
l'"ll...l3llo,on:Sandeleon, aged 54 "yearn, wife of the above,
11"ing from a terrible shock to the system and bruises,
also taken tct the " George " HoteL
IrMr: A. FaiiMis, aged 57 Years; of Seaton Carew; Turbain.
r. Fawcus, whose leg is fractured, was by his own -desire
taken back to Peterborough.
Mr. Foster, Town Clerk of Halifax. Severe injury of the.,
right leg. -Mr. Foster was brought ,In a fly to Huntingdon,
.„,wh.tre he received medical aid, and proceeded home on
.aturleay,
/f eille, of Dune, N.B. A bruise on leftlen4ple;and
thecli to,system. Taken to the County Hospital.' •
Miss Mary Calder, aged 16 years, travelling *with Miss.
Xellie Wound on forehead and contusion of left arm.
Taken to the hospital.
Mr. Andrew Brat Oudet,' of Rokeby-road, New Cross,
London Broken arm, and wound on side of head. Taken
tO the " George " IloteL
C. Abbe, of King's Bench-walk, .Temple. Bruised
"Mt . Taken to the "George" Hotel.
Mr. Philip Leitch, a native of France, aged 35, valet in the
service of ')Gunt Schouvaluff. th&Russian Ambassador at
this Court. A compound fracture of the left leg. A serious
case. Taken to the hospital.
Mr. Daniel Attrill, of Dean Farm, Whitwell, Isle of
Wight. Bruised and slightly cut about the head. Mr.
Attrill was able to travel home on Saturday from Hunting-
don.

Mr. Christisen, of Chale, Isle of Wight, aged 27 years.
Read cut. Taken to the " George" Hotel.
_Mr. Cleghorn, a director of the North• Eastern Railway. A
"JUlDotuid fracture of left arm. Mr. Cleghoru telegraphed

from Huntingdon to his own private medical man to meet
him at King's-cress Station, cud came up from Huntingdon
at an early hour on Saturday morning.
Mr. William Brice, aged 29 years. of Eldevion-street,
South Shields. 'Head bruii:ed. Proceeded home on Saturday.
Captain Long Ashbury, slight injuries; Mr. Allerton,
shock to system; Mr. Yeoman, slightly injured • 3Yr Mere,
engineer, of Inuth, in Linc-ilnshire ; Mrs. docksedge,
Sevenoaks, injured shoulders; Mr. Francis Hodgson, of
New Park-place, Darlington, finger cut, and much shaken.
The last six gentlemen also left Huntingdon for their re-
spective homes on Saturday. Captain Ashloury was travel-
ling in the same carriage with Lord Colville and the young
Allgoods.
John Cattley, driver of the Scotch express; right hand
crushed and middlo finger cut off; contused knee, and suf-
fering severely from the shock. Taken to the Huntingdon
hospital.