The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-06-25 00:00:00

MOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

A shocking accident occurred a few miles from Bur-
ton-on-Trent late on Friday eveninglast on the TutW7
branch of the North Staffordshire Railway. The
coupling chain of the guard's van broke at a curve in the
Stratton cutting, the engine and guard's van were I
pitched down &twenty feet embankment one on the top
of the other, and the passenger carriages were
thrown across the rails on the verge of the cutting.
The steam valves being forced open, John Smith, the
driver, was literally "boiled" to death beneath the
engine, whilst the stoker waa extricated from the
seine position in • dying state. The poor guard,
Hobart Gardner, was found jammed to death between
the engine and van, with his leg hanging by the
stocking. He was unmarried, but his intended wife
was showing her wedding dress to a female friend at
Burton, when the news of his death arrived. Thomas
Tame, the stoker. died at three o'clock on Saturday
morning, at the Castle Hotel, Tutbury. Several pas-
sengers were seriously injured,

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PIIIGIITTUL ACCIDENT NEON • GRINDBONE AT
SHIVIIIELD.—On Friday • most appalling accident 00-
cuffed at the grinding-wheel of Mr. Thomas Jowitt
Rolds Work, Atterchffe.roml, near Sheffield, by which'
• single young man, named Henry Swift, who resided
with'his parents in Stemforth.lane, Sheffield Park, lost
his life. The accident resulted in consequence of some
of the other grinders taking off their bands. Imme-
diately the engine was relessed of the pressure from the
revolving of these stones, the pima of the grinding
stones wonderfully increased. The stone at which the
deceased was working during its rapid revolution sod.
dimly smashed in four parts, driving the "horsing"
upon which the deceased was sitting to the top a the
room. Swift was forced through the roof of the room,
which is about five or six yards high ; and whet. ex-
tricated from the debris at the top of the wheel room
was fearfully wangled, and died in a few minutes after-
wards. One part of the Itolle BOW • distance of sixty
yards into some adjoining premises, but fortunately no
person was hurt in its transit.
THE POLES AND TIME PEDlol.—Eicht••• mess
from Warsaw stands the largest fortressin the world,
a fortress with casement and bombproof barracks for
40,000 men, and with a tircumferenee of eleven miles.
Whether this fact is generally known or not, it is
certain that very few Englishmen—very few persons of
any country but Russia—have been allowed the oppor-
tunity of inspecting this wondrous stronghold. Nor,
I believe, is our Government at present in pomesion
1 of any plan or sketch of the immense works • and, as
evidenee of the jeaously with which it is bldãsn from
the eyes of strangers, I may mention WM special per-
mission from the Cur is requisite to enable any
foreigner to enter it. The fortress is coiled Modia. or
the New Georgian—in Russian, Novo Giergiewsk.—
Omer a Week.

III1ND•TS.

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(11.16), and Bridport (11.66); and m corresponding down third
clam train runs on Sundays from Maiden Burton at 1:9.60
tirlinstone (9.60 a.m.), Dorchester (10 a.m.), mall Wey-
mouth (10.20 cm). (f) CM Fridays only.

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