The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-02-05 00:00:00

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE
sourwwESTERN RAILWAY.

Air the train, which left London for Portsmouth.
at 6.19 p.m, yesterday week, was proceeding on
its way and approaching Malden, the Wider and
four carriages suddenly ran oil ths line and went
down the embankment, which is Motet 9 feet high.
The eairiagtss of course were a complete wreck, the
upper parts being knocked (dr the wheels, mid one
completely upset. A usistanee having been procured,
the passengers, whose snriek• and comiternation
were woist harrowing. were attended to, and noon
i.ne of the carriages being rearm-et' the body 14 a
11.1881,I1per Wan f I underneath. The itoor fellow
was quite dead, and from his countenance it seetned
that death was eloulttlene litutatitamtiout Information
was at once telegraphed to the Waterloo Station,
and Mr. Liddell, assistant trattie manager, at lIIICC
nsieeded tit the exile of the catastrophe, with
alurers and the necessary appliances for removing
the, daeris. Three of the pilaSrligUll were found to
be e. much injured that they were at once foraarderl
to London and attended by Mr. Johnson, surgeon,
of furt, York•nail. Lambeth, and other medical
gentlemen ; but the injuries were found to be of iso
serious a character that they were quickly removed
to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where every attention
was pain l Oulu. One of the injunal ',enema is a
clerk in the employ of the company. The most
careful examination has failed as yet to elucidate the
cause of the dui:tater. The rail. are in perfect guage.
The other injured persons ii, the train reojieerl the
most careful attention, and those at the hospital are
progressing favourably. The down mail train was
delayed nearly twit hours.
It appeara that the unfortunate gentleman who lost
his life, was Or. Buy, ',lipid:jail to the Queen, who
was on his way to Guildford to attend • medical cow
sultation. His head was a, crushed that the body is
scarcely it. cognisable. The flesh was stripped (non the
right thigh, and the left thigh and leg fractured. A
iii ee of iron of stone k;wl seems also to have beet, forced
through his head and into the right eye, appa-
rent!) crrishin,t it iu its cricket. In the presence of auch
awful injuries it is agl y consolation to think that
death Wll.l innatni,t, nun so fur a ithont suffering. His
body was found under a first-cleats carriage., all the doors
of which were locked. Ilia untimely death is e mist
severe how to tho medical profession, of which lie win'
one of the septet utniliolt tuctulptrs.

Mr. Taylor, an extensive lineudraper at Portaes, was
so badly cruslie I about the back soil ribs, that it was
impossible for him to beat the iiam of removal to a
London hospifal. He iva, Moreton!, taken at once to
the Mansell ANUS, • tavern clime atijoiiiiirx the Wini•
station. Mile- Power, daughter of Colonel
Power, of Tslbotusluatc, Ifyili-park, was brought np
to St. Thomas's Hospital with Mr. Ptilliager aml MT.
Mi." Power is most seriously injured about the
Ilea& 10 likerii.e d, Mr. Pullinger, and Mr. Mihl has
several ribs broken, and id otherwise injured internadv.
.t Mr. lurtier and a Mr. Ford had each of them ribs
broken, though otherwise not too much injured to p.m.
vent their being conveyed to their own homes. Mr.
P..wtresti, if Gracechurch-street, hall received some most
serious and dreadful scalp wounds, and, though able to
Ile removed to his own I, iiiii e. is still in a emitlithoU of
ddliger. Mr. Howell and Mr. Harris, both of Ports-
mouth, and Dr. Wyatt, of Sinitlisea, were Much coiu.
tuseil and shaken, but wen, able to proceed to their
homes.

When the 'dace where the accident occurred is con•
shirred it is al t marvellous how any escaped With
their lives. All the carriages were nearly smashed to
11101eveiy ame IVAA turicl etiiiiplettely round facing
toe apis lauidou —the oppmite direction to which they
were going at the tune. The tender of the etig.ue waa
hr..ken to pieces, the tank Wing cutuple;oly'setstrated
fr the wheels. and both parts were turned round to
wools London, like the other.. Fauna this eircumatance
it would appear that, after leaving the rail., each car-
riage swung completely round as it plutued over the
hank. It ia an astonishing thing that neither the driver
nor fireman was on the tender at the time. as the little
strip of loci tl Is:tweet' the ea ;Me and tender scarcely
gives standing room. Had they Men 011 alit tender,
they. too, would havu met instassat death ; and then
outhilig would h we stopped the Southampton up ex-
press (rano crushing through the ruins of the carriages
It M stated that the 'Situate signal at the junction
Was not alight at the time of the accident. This. how.
ever, is • mistake. The distance signal was alight. but
when the sign.alietan raw the fearful accident that oc•
vitriol, he daahad the lever hawk to tuna on the red,
or danger signal, to stop all down trains, and then ran
to render what assistance he could. It is supposed that
in the excitement of the moment he threw book the
lever with such force, as in turning on the red signal ti
jerk it out.
Much praise in due to the engine•driver, who acted
with great prcrence of 'Mud, sit, without stopping fur
A Seconil, let i,li engine run on at full Speed for Willie
few miles, when lie pulle I up, and waited hr the up-
express frum Southampton, ihue in London at 6 p.m.,
and then expected every minute. In a te or two
it came up at full speed, and WAu stopped by the engine.
driver with the red signal lamp. Hut for this in one
. . .

or two minutes more -it would" have reached the junc-
tion, and come full upon the yardage lying across the
up line, and very proleildy have glint-over the mob ink-
went like the rest, when the loss of life would have
Limn fearful to think of. Having stopped this train,
the ev.gine-driver again pushed on his eu,;ine with speed
to Kingston, wlieie he procured medical assistance,
communicated with the South- Western authorities at
Waterloo by telegraph, and stopped the itown trulUc
The news of the disaster, however, was not known in
London till after three other trains had been de-
spatched.
The inquest on the body of Dr. Baly was opened on
Thursday niurning at the White Hart Inn, Merton, be-
fore Mr. W. Carter, the coroner for Etat Surrey. The
following is a curt-tiled report of the critic cc.
J. Smith, one of the traffic superintendents at the
Waterloo Station, proved that on the afternoon of
Monday, the 2Stli, he started the 5 10 express for
Guildford and Portsmouth. The train consisted of 10
carriages. Nrxt to the engine rat a second-class car-
riage, then two first, a guard'n van, then a first and
second, th-n a second, two first, and then a second.
They were caunpelled to make them up in that manner
in order that the guard's, or break van, might be well
forward.

Police-constable James Harris, 14, V, maid he heard of
the accident at about 7 o'clock in the evening of
Holiday, and lie at once went down the line to the
Epsom junction. On arriving at the atvit he new a
gentleman lying dead On the door of a first-elass car-
riage. fie was lying in the six-foot way between the
up and down lines. He isearcheil the hoily and took
charge of the money, watch and chain, handkerchiefs,
and aurgical instrumenta he found upon the deceit.
There WAA also a first-class return ticket from Waterloo
to Guildfonl. Two silk handkerchief. were marked
with the initials " W. H.," but on the ahirt collar of
the dem...ad was his name in full.
itielianl illaicey sail he was coachman to the de-
ceased, and ha,t seen the hotly which had been vicwisl
by the jury. He could hit awcar by the features that
it WAS the body of his muter. Had been in Dr. Bales
sersice four years and • half, and knew hint well. He
would wish to see the clothes worn by the deceased be-
fore he swore positively that the body wag the body of
his muter.

Mr. Belford and another gentleman, whose risme did
not transpire, said they +twitted for the pure°. of
roving the imieniitication of the body. Thor were
quite truly to awear that the body was that of the Ide
Dr. Hely. In the meantime, however, the witness
Maicey had witlimlrawe to examine the clothes. on his
return he said he had not 'he least doubt, from the
clot cc. that the body wee that of Dr. Baly.
Dr. Walter Chapman, of Tooting, said he had as •
private friend seen the holy of Dr. Baty and tusk an
eaten.' examination of the 'DPI:is-4 it had received.
He found that the whole of the front part of the skull
was fr.tured and driten in on the bruin. Time lobe of
the right eye we, eumpletely tleAtreyett and bur.. The
cheek bane MIN much fractur:sl and the lower jaw quite
crushed. Every rib in the body was frac ured in
fact, the eliest was quite crushed in The right thigh
was fr.tured in two pltoes, awl time whole body waa
covert,' with wounmis Wel 04/lathe ~,, The.° injiiricn
were sufficient to cause instantaneous death. The in-
juries to either the head or chest alone were enough to
produce death on the very iummt-milt. When lie was told
at wee Dr. Italy'a body he hail no doubt of its identity.
Illad be simply been shown the deceased, having heart
nothing previous, lie did not think lie could posaibly
have recognised him. lie believed the injuries were
caused by the presemure of some heavy weight falling
an crushing him. From the great quantity of dirt mind
grit lie found in all the wooo,j, lie woo docia..,fly of
opinion that time injuries were inSicted while the
deceased lay upon the ground, and did not take i lace
in the railway carriage. lie could not say that all time
ihjuries were au iiifimcted, or they might not have been
caused by the deceased beiug thrown out, and the car-
riage afterwards falling on him.
Mr. F. nobler, of Kingston, said he left the Waterloo
station by the 5.15 train —the train that followed the
5.10. At time Epsom junctiou they were stopped by two
danger signals. They were both alight. and time train
therefore cume to a dead stop close to the almond light.
Heard& insu call out there hail le-ell a frightful accident
a little below, and he at once jumped out mid ration to
time junction to render whet assistance he could, lie
got • light, and, after helping some persons, went for-
ward with two porters There au a Brat-class carriage
turned over between the up sad down lines. One of time
porters called, (Leal erect°. ! here is • man under
here." Witness looked under, and MOW the laxly of a
man underneath. Witness could only see his head and
ahouldlens, as a railway mat trio,
.over the rest of the
body. The decease.' Wan was lying on his face, ant
the whole weight of the carriage rested on the back 01
his head and lusly. A door el time carriage w. force.'
off and lying near hie feet, *bleb weal...erred with sand
and hallimat. Witness helped to turn over the carriage,
amid a gentleman stepped forward and felt the deceased's
head, and said that death most have been instantaneous,
The carriage under which deosssed was tumid was time
only carrage which had fallen upon this six-foot way.
The others had thread tim the left and gene over limp
bank. Demoted, when found, was lying with his head
aim towards London. and wasitel wits sure his legs and
the lower part of his body were quit. 00,eno by the
gravel and ballast which had liven torn up by the car-
riage leaving the rails and thrown over it. Witness
took the door which had been forced off mei • cushion,
and helped to yLooe 114 body co them Mot was lb*
Italy Wm jury bod mos IMO dip.