The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-17 00:00:00

TIIK LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN

SCOTLAND.

We are glad to be able to state (says the Soots-
eland yesterday) that no additional deaths have resulted
from the late disastrousaccidmit near Winchburgh, although
it isgready to be feared that the total number of deaths,
which at pressed amonuts to 17, wilt be still further aug-
:nested. Of the 24 parsons who were conveyed to the in- '
firmary on the night of the accident, only 15 now remain
ender treatment, four, es already stated, having died on
Tuesday morning, and the remaining five having been re- I I
moved, their injuries being comparatively slight. The
greeter number of the 15 sufferers now in the
Infirmary are reported as progressing favourably,
but three or four are still in a very dangerous state.
On Wednesday, Sheriff Jameson attended at the Infirmary
for the purpose of taking the deposition on oath of Niel, ,
the engine-driver of the Glasgow train, an to the circum-
stances attending the accident. Niel was unable to make •
deposition on the previous day, but on Wednesday he did
so im a clear and convected manner. The deposition
was of course taken in private, but it is not sop-
posed that he bee thrown any new light on the
cense of the accident. Mr. Lothian, procurator-fiscal,
attended at the polies-offies on Wednesay, where be took
about twenty depositions regarding the ideatificatioa of
the dead bodies previous to their removal by their friends.
/ir thing further has transpired as to the cause of the acci-
dent, but we believe it is probable that others betides the
point.mau may be taken into custody. On Wednesday the
Moods of the persons whose bodies have lain in the police-
offioe sines Monday evening removed the greater number of
the bodies after their (formal identification before the autho.
rites. In the 0011110 of the day nine bodies were
thus removed, large crowds collected M the High-
street in front of the police-office a each ooffin
was removed from the deed-house to the beans.
Messrs. Reid and Sone, uodertakere, conducted the
arrangements for the removal of the bodies. Among those
injured by the accident who were able with assistaace to
proceed home, and of whom, consequently, there has been
no account, were Mr. James Bachman, student of Divinity
(U.P.), hlurrayfield, Edinburgh, who sustained a slight
sprain and bruise, and Mr. Aaron Anderson, draper, St.
Patrick.square„ who sustained a contusion on the k sad
was slightly bruised on the head. Mr. Adolphus M.
20, Barony-street, one of the sufferers by the late railway's-
cideut, has mosived the following iojuries:—Severe contosios
of left eye, and left side of upper jaw ; there is much swell-
ing and discoloration of the parts, but fortunately the eye-
ball itself is not seriously injured. Also, severe bruise of
left leg above and below the knee, though fortunately the
joint is not involved, nor any bones broken ; the right leg
shows marks of leas severe brines, and the left band is
slightly out in two or three places. He is attended by Dr.
111/ilchrist and is doing well, though in a state of prostra-
tion. The following is a description of the body whioh still
lies unidentified in the police-office It is that of a men
apparently about thirty to thirty-five years of age, i
5 feet 3or 4 inches in height, with auburn
j hair, and
no bard or whiskers. Dressed in a black woollen jacket
with metal buttons marked "D.D.C.R.," black corduroy
vest with bone buttons, and dark moleskin trousers, and
having on stringed shoes, tacketted. Found in his posses-
sion a small sum of money ; three cotton handkerchief., of
which one is blue spotted, and the others are of a red flower
pattern ; a tin box containing a piece of Irish roll tobacco ;
a tobacco-pipe with tin lid, the lid attached by a piece of
German-silver chain, and a railway ticket for the journey,
"Edinburgh to Larbert." No fatal consequences have fol-
lowed to any of the sufferers wbo were brought to
Lialithgow. The most serious injuries received were',
those of Mr. Shaw writer, Falkirk, clerk to Mr. Redder-
wick (who was killed). Mr. Shaw is in • critical state
still, but no unfavourable symptoms have est in. He lies
in Mr. Maddox's Hotel, and no removals have takes
Owe from it, except Mrs. Paterson, who went to Edinburgh
by the midday train. The sufferers is the Red Lion Hotel
have both removed. Mr. Gray having gone to Altos and Mr.
Buchanan to Edinburgh. the M'Lean family, in the hot:goof
Mr. Miller, udler, are progressing favourably. Thema New-
ton, the peistaman in custody, is said to have been on duty
from about midnight on Sunday till six o'clock morning cm
Monday, and that he resumed work at six o'clock, half an
tour before the collision. He is said to have had 18.. a
week of wages, and to have been about ten years in the
railway employment as surfaceman, though previous to that
time he had acted as • poiutsman. We have not learned the
cause of his being appointed on Monday. The bodies of
Messrs. Iledderwick sod Mode were found by the police
lying on the rails at different sides of the trains. They are
supposed to have been sitting in the same carriage beside
each other, being intimate acquaintances.
The Procurator-fiscal is making a minute investigation
into the whole circamstanoss.