The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-06 00:00:00

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.

ANOTHER DISGRACEFI,T.L S.CE.
The usual weekly meeting of the cot DPrby Board
of Guardians Was held yesterday, in the Board-room, at
the W,.erki.tor.q. The chair was occupied by Mr.
*yes. The other members present were Messrs. W.
Edwards, Ledger, Pilling, Wareham, Roberts, Abra-
hams, Roscoe, Medealf, Richmond, Smith, Shaw, and
Garratt.

Mr. Gough reported, the number of paupers in the
house to be---dr.,st week-308 ; admitted since, 16 ;
born, I discharged, 5 : total, 320. Corresponding
week of last year, 275.
Cheques for out-door relief were issued as follow :
Mr. Potts, £ll2 ; Mr. Roberton, £3B ; and Mr.
Lythgoc, £22.
After the usual formal business had been completed,
a scene, scarcely equalled in the days when the guardians
were in their best fighting trim, occurred, and the board-
room assumed the appearance of d'bear-garden rather
than of an asylum for the poor and aged, and the
guardians had more of the appearance of bears in an arena
than of ivell;edueated 'gentlemen having the control,
the managenient, or the guardianship (4 a bole parish
in their bands. For a eOnsiderable sPce of rime the
whole. affair, More' appropriately designated hear-tight,
(whilst to describe it borders an the impossible,) was
anwinl4 to recorded in any journal. Everybody
eape charges against ever` body else; and everybody
else in return either cheered or jeered, or threw back
indignities into everybody's face. The veteran, 'ATI%
Smith, took up his old gauntlets, and impugned the
conduct of the Governor about some firkin of butter
which the peaceful chairman desired him to taste or
weigh, or do any other delightful thing with ; erdoriog
him at the same time, in a stentorianirOice, to keep
silence. When the i4soya'afill ttibt, was at an end the
Rona 'ypilt;.' 4 the "business"eing YAClVicied,

THE FATAL ACCIDENT
ON THE

EAST LANCASHIRE LINE

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(FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTER.)

The report which we published yesterday of the cir-
cumstances connected with this accident were substan-
tially correct, with the exception that it turns out
that the number of wounded amounts to fifty-six, thirty-
eight of those injured having received contusions about
the head and face, and twenty-four fractured limbs. The
only wonder is, however, that a greater loss of life did
not take place, for six of the carriages which ran back
from Helmshore down the incline were literally smashed
to pieces. There is a curve about fifty yards lower down
the line than where the accident occurred, which would
prevent the driver of an engine coming from the direction
of Manchester seeing any carriages coming down the same
line from an opposite direction. As soon as the third train
(the one which ran into the carriages) rounded this curve,
Ramsbottom, the driver of the engine, and Mr. Goodier,
one of the inspectors under Mr. Shaw, saw the car-
riages advancing towards them. Ramsbottom at once
. .

shut off the steam, and did all he could to bring the
train to a stand, hut as there was only a distance of 50

yards to do this in, and as the carriages kept running

down the incline, his efforts were unavailing, except so
far as they went to (limioi4.l the force of the shock.

Strange to say, that both Ramsbottom and Mr. Goodier

escaped unhurt. It has been stated in some of the
newspaper reports that the engine which Mr. Shaw
took down the up-line, ran over some of the passengers
and injured them. This statement is entirely untrue,
as the engine proceeded at a very slow pace, and the
whistle was blown all the way.
The following is a correct list of those who were
killed, which we were unable to furnish yesterday :