The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-01-01 00:00:00

MAIDEN NEWTON.

FATAL ACCIDNNT.—On Thursday last an inquest
WWI held before H. Lock, Esq., deputy coroner, and
• respectable jury, on the body of Emmanuel Welsh,
aged 22, who came by his death under very distres-
sing citemust.uices. It appeared that the deceased,
who was in the employ of Mr. Rawlins, of Hook
Farm, near Beaminstcr, had been on a Christmas !
visit to his aunt at Wimborne, and was returning
home by the railway on Wednesday night. He had
takes a ticket for Bridport, but had to wait a con.
siderable time at Maiden Newton station, the trains
being late owing to the heavy falls of snow; and,
not being accustomed to railway travelling, and mis-
taking the Dorchester train for that going to Brid-
port, wads a rush to get in while it was in motion,
when unfortunately he fell between two of the car-
riages across the rails, and a portion of the train
passed over him. He was taken up as speedily as
possible, and Mr. Randall, surgeon, was sent for.
but his upper extremities were so dreadfully lace-
rated, and the injecies wero of so serious a nature,
that other medical assistance was deemed desirable,
and a telegraphic message to that effect was sent to
Dorchester, in consequence of which Dr. Aldridge
and Mr. Ellison went over. It was found that the
poor fellow had received a severe lacerated wound of
' the scalp, the left side of which was greatly exposed,
that the jaw and left cheek bone were severely frac-
tured, with extensive lacerated wounds on the right
, side of his face, and that several finger* of the right
hand were cat off, with compound fractures of the
; arm and fore-arm, rendering amputatiou necessary at
; the shoulder joint. Three lingers of the left arm
Iwere also so much crushed that they had to be
, amputated. The deceased appeared to rally after
this—the operations having been performed under
chloroform—but he afterwards complained of pain
, in the abdomen, which rendered it evident that he
' had sustained severe internal injury, and he died at
three o'clock the next morning— nine hours after the
accident occurred. The deceased was said to be an
excellently conducted young man. The jury re-
turned a verdict of "amidental death."

STURMINSTER NEWTON.
With the greatest pleasure we have to record, as
usual at this season of the year, that the inmates of
our union were liberally provided for by their more
affluent neighbours, with a substantial dinner, con-
sisting of roast beef and plum pudding, the digestion
assisted by a portion of our national beverage. In
:ulilition, the men received a bountiful supply of
tobacco, the women snuff, tea, and sugar. We must
not omit one very pleasing acquisition to the day's
pleasure ; a committee of young ladies very kindly
provided a beautifully furnished Christmas tree,
with well suited articles for the juveniles. The
pleasure was equally mutual between the donors and
recipients, after which they were highly delighted
' by the scenic effect produced by a magic lantern.
It is by such acts aa these that the bond of union is
kept up between the different classes of society, and
ante we are that the benefactors enjoyed their
, Christmas dinners the more, that they could feel by
, their liberality their less fortunate fellow creatures
were also made partakers of the festivities of the
! season. A little kindness, such as we have recorded
above, is equally blessed to tin giver and the re-
ceiver, not forgetting the words of Holy Writ, "He
' that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord."