The Press.
London, England, 1853-10-08 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

They Were so jammed is that we could trot get at them.
Near them maa the body of another lady whose dress only
we could see. she was so bruised in tltu ruins. The cries
of a little Is then attracted tile. lle wits about eight years
old. Ile lying under the axletree of a carriage, which
had broken both his little legs, and was lying across them.
With great difficulty au got hint out by raising the axle
aids a entWitr. I then returned with more help to the
two ladies, one of whose bands was jammed, and we got
them out. I don't know whether the insensible tasty was
dead or not, but I think she Wle4. her on the
I•;uik, The other was nut 1111101 hurt. We next discovered
the body of a very large man under the train. Ilia head
was cut off and gone. We found iso trace of it. Both his
legs were cut ott also from the thighs down. We gut out
the remains and placed them on the hunk. I was at this
t• • a good deal exhausted, having worked very hard. Sir
E•lwanl lienswsly now came up. lie haul been a passenger
in one of the etilTiageki next the engine, %Welt heal lovell
shot on by tlw eotlisiuu. lb- had escaped unhurt, and had
mittens' every assit,ltiliee to the 1/11ShellgerS ill ilium! tat.
e:llThiges. He then retnniel down the lilac to help there,
and took the command from me, to my great relief, for
was •psite worn out. I CIIIIIIO ot
tell you how hard he worked,
as Mao did those gentlemen whose names I have mentionesl,
and, indeed, every one, railway people, country people, and
all. I broke oil a piece of n carriage, and helped to make
a litter of it, on width we /slaves' a lady who had her Lao
14' :s broken, and the English gentleman's little child, and
took them to a house convenient. Sir Edward Kennedy
sent fur a doctor and a priest at once. Seeing that some
people wen. pieking up carpet-bags, I suggested the neces-
sity of the luggage being guardesl, which was at one done.
Ms sins. Kelly, Connor, Leitch, and 1 then walked on to
Siratlass, thinking we had seen all the damage, and out
knowing ablest the two carriages that had been shot airily.
In the statiownsom eight or • • people were lying side by
side. I hie of them seemed dead. He wits a Mr. Egan, sof
Vim. Ills laxly was at once tenoned. A priest was
hearing the confession of another, who evidently had very
few moments left hint in this world. The de ul bodies
were removed from tlw room. M, Itsriiugtott was
iu smother room in the station, very badly hurt I heard.
I Me of the ladies I saw at the statism had her chest broken
in. I don't think she would live till lthrniing. Sevfoll
had their legs broken. Osw servant boy, who we. very
badly hurt, had titian sent by Sir Edward ke !sly. ti, his
own err, 10 Slime hospital in the neighlrourhowd. There
was a tootle:II gentleman present. who was dosing all in his
power to alleviate the sistfolings of the wounded. 1 believe
there Were set end metlieal gentlemen, but 1 am not sure
anion. than one. The Hon. E. Lawless was there surging
very hard; and there ails amt. young man, a dealer, named
John Rooney, aho was going titian in the Kilkenny train
Uhell he head alt' the artistes', at the statiim. Ile at once
threw up his passage, quitted the 41.11 train, mud stet
aork to hullo the will'erens in a twist extraordinary tuasitier.
suet, vi neat' Host kindness and gentleness as he exhibited
emit,' wit he siterwsed. A trails was got 11.4101 Y abllllt half'
rag 44.1.1114. k, and by it I come to t4IWII. W 4 OITIVeiI nt
the IX ing••.-brislge tenainum althea 1'! 11.11.1444. k. Ntither the
shiner 1141 r stoker of the cattle train aas injured.

A DisAsTr.tt of a frightful character occurred
at Preston, in lameashire, on Nlondny night, by the
full of the floor of a MOM containing nearly three
hundred people. The ultimate consequeuees of this
casualty it is impossible to anticipate: one woman
W:1.4 killed upon the spot, and from forty to fifty
other p44iple were more or less injure'', many of them
nowt seriously, and several. it. was feared, mortally.
The day was that on which the turn-out factory
hands in Preston waived their weekly allowance
from the trade committeoin lieu of wage's. A body
of card-room hands, ltetween two and three hundred
in number, accordingly assembled at a public.' se
called the Ciaporation Arms, to receive their money.
.k few minutes before eight an alarming crash, sue-
eeetled by piercing she eks, attracted attention to the
hat k iimitises of the tavern. It was then
found that a beam had snapped, and the floor having
'waled precipitated the crowd of people into the
chasm, a depth of alsint twelve feet. It is impossilole
to comey an Odra of the scene presented by this
dense 1111145 of human beings heaped together in ap
parontly inextricable confusion, and mitre:int; from
injuries of almost eery description. To drag them
one by the thlnewaY was 0 work of no small difficulty,
oust acthely oecupial dots,• who to( Ili part in it abi,nt
half an hour. The door hail parted in the centre
like a pair of folding doors, and in cousequeuee
those who occupied the initiate of the room were the
rliief sittliTerit, as they not only fell through the
opetting the entire depth to the ground tlisir, lint
were itunieiliately Marled unaernenth ~.4S
being at the sides or ends of oho apartment, slipped
down the sloping boards upon them. Some few
elttng to the windows until reseuctl by the ilia of
haters. The majority of the suffere:s were yowler;
forales : many SCCllleildt'ad when extricated. halt re-
vival tinder the influence of stimulants and fresh
were found to comprise fractures
of all deseriptions—ribs, lets, and arms. (the young
woman was found deal, crashed or suffocated
beneath the mass of sutlivers.

llrrunt.te Tx rizmANv.—The late T,oril of
Hamburg, I r . Itartels. the well litit,wit trot eller MIA
anther In Sicily, ha.% beet) honoured by an especial
tnenwir 1111 hi, IVO. It is entitled 3le-
merits viri to•lanittri 3. 11. Bartels, lteipubliete hiatu.
but geflais ti;t-se‘s Ctbrentis."

sporting.

SATURDAY,

CHESTER AUTUMN MEETINtI.--Tt-Ebu.t~•.

Wt.Ll'sl'.% kES of 3 rovs: cash, with 311 added,

for two-year-olds.
Mr. Copelanito Sister to Maid of Itt•hum:sm.. (Wells ) 1
Mr. T. l'areo Mary
Mr. li. Taylor'it 'zarina :t
Mr. Cop lan Field 31aroltal
betting: hto 1 against Mary, to against Czarina,
:1 to I againot Sister to Maid of 1 trlantere. Won by half a
length.
01101 L 's
DANN(' %I. of 10 80%6. each, with :)0 )11.1t11211.

Lord Calettou'rsliitettyer &11'
cll~►
311.. E. IL Clarks Puna•l► Box

The following also nw :—l'aNtryeutik, Mists Agnes,
hiltaltle.ton, The Surveyor, The General, Eliza.
!letting : 3 to I against The tienentl, t to I each egitinst
ranch Box, Kitt.il3ef, and Eliza. \Von easily by tt
SEI.I.IX4i Si \kl.:s ro sit Ts. elleb, with All added.

Mr. 6taidard's Priam the Third ( %Veils) 1
Jr. ti. Taybir's Lady in Waiting
INN PLATE ( ) illhovs:.

Mr. heneh's ;Master Slender (T. Chile) 1
Mr. Coma's Ellie Dean.;
Mr. Clioyee's
Betting: *.! to I against Muyilay, 1 to 1 tiguinbt Mader
Slender. Won eleyerl). by a length.
ill OSTWN Sr! krs of 10 sovs. each, with 10 kidded.
Mr. Ileiklatifs Stiletto ( A klerotl ) 1
Mr. French's Vaultreiiii

Betting: ro to a on Vaultrs, 3 to 1 against bateau.
11'ou by a length.
I\•coNESIIA V.
TRAVESMANS ‘41:1:111.1t l' oI'JII boys. _

Mr. I htwson's Tilt! Italian (Capt. Haworth) 1
Mr. 'liver's Ethe!wolf
Mr. Moseley's Alonzo 3
' Mix ran.
Betting : i to I against Ethelwolf, i to !..! against
Alonzo, awl Ito I against The Italian. Won by a head.