The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-29 00:00:00

FATAL ACCIDENT ON TEE EAST LANCA
SHIRE RAILWAY.

Oa Thieroday night an naident, fatal in its conge-
&airalment' near the Senweerent station, on the
eeseakire Railway. The above hoe has hes pro-
verbial to its having been remarkably fen from fatal aca.
hats, es is wildest from the hat that Thursday was the
shah mainnary of the Gneiss of the line, end daring the
side M W nine years only one passenger has bees fatally
It appears that a goods train, oonasting of 28
faile7== rfden with a
the Rest cne, havin
re g proceeded
weseitoduowhnt
te • NMI ent the viaduct ear to tbe south end of :tw
Brooksheeloth Yeeeel, fee the wpm, of shunting two of
the lambi, part of the train, at the side tails
whisk lb* works of Jobe Rotdeson Ray, Esq., of
Base-lan Bean Two break vane, oat I. front and the
other is the rear, were assented with the train, to nth et
whist a guard had been appealed. One of the guards n-
eeded to the shunting of the waggon, and the other riv
maind ea the line with the prinespol portion of the train.
Having sheeted the waggon, the .persoss M thugs pro-
ceeded to reAttach the portion of the train, sad, while
ea g
aol gtae eel lon coupling, a passengertrete which leaves
at 11.55, and is due at Eery, for Manchester, at
We, suddenly emerged from the mouth of the teasel,
whither only 124 yards dean from the steadies train.
The Wale we. thealated with Newell's patent
which we. instantly brought into operation, bet in
of the speed at white the Win was travelling
I=allreseay prawn would be et about its usual raw),
nod the sheet distance lam whisk danger Gould be
,it was intweeible to prevent a collision Not-
g the perilous peaks of the fogies driver and
ellthee, they restaged at their peek and marvellously
eeesped shine% uninjured. The Bogies drove with tearful
Inelaele *salad the goods train, smalls, the guard'. van
sillielleef Ike weans' to ahlveer,and two ether waggon were
AMP blued. The rails for s distaste of several yards mete
tern up, the body of the guard's van we. honked off the
wheels sad upset, and the broken pieces seateseed about in all
dirostions. One of the guards, named Beneal Sleet,
who vies beemely employed as shunter at the /key oliebee,
on the Lemeashire sad Yorkshire Railway, end wise ha l
hem employed as guard by the Rut Lseemblies Railway
Company only those days, happened to be adds the an at
the time of the collision, and was killed on the eget. Hie
body was felted shortly after*, accident eager the engine.
He was a married man, bet bad no children It wee sup-
Wtsied about forty were more or lees tainted
by the catastrophe, bat sem aT the injuries are likely to have
a fatal termination. The g am who appeared to be
seriously iajured seas R. Reg., memellioneer, Bieck-
house, tinatleworth, nearßemsbettemone elate magistreese
of the entaty,who occupied a fint. el ass carriage. Be received
a violent blow on the calf of the left leg, and was also struck
on the upper lip by the hat of a gentleman seated opposite,
and was otherwise inured about the heed. Mr. Purring,
well known in musical circles in Manchester, naiad •
severe blow on the nose, but was not otherwise seriously
hart Mr. George Booth, builder, Elton, a very stout per-
son, received injuries on the face and tuna. The shock
was so sudden and onexpeeted that he Gould mallet
nothing that took place at the time, @Rapt that he had an
impression that the arch of the tunnel was follies upon the
teas. Mrs. Shadworth, of Bdeufield, was slightly shaken.
Mr. Daniel Soon, of Oldham, alio was somewhat shakes.
Mr. Obattwood, architect, Bury, was not mach injured.
Mr. Deck, insaranos agent, Baty, was severely Wand on
the lege, not being able to stand after the accident took
place. Mr. Oee, of Bradford-terrace, near Bury, we. elm
tittered. In the carriage occupied by Mr. Deck and Mr.
Gee, a lady had some of her teeth knocked out. Mr. Elba,
opal proprietor, Ringley, had bb fan cut and wasetherwies
limbed. Robert Fonytb, guard of the passenger train,
had hie fan cut, probably by the breaking of the win-
dow is the van. Shortly after the accident, a telegraphic
message was despatched, giving Miasmata relative to the
disaster, and Mr. Eborall, general manager, Dr. Harrison,sad other gentlemen, speedily arrived on the spot by special
eagles. From Inquiries made last evening of Dr. Ban
risen, aßer visiting various of the patients, we learn they
are doing a. well as w be impacted, several being confined
to their beds, with every probability, however, of speedily
recovering.
We understand that all the compan' servants who are
impeded of having in any way contributed to the muse of
the snidest have ban suspended until the secessery in
quiriso have ban made. Probably the most material point
of the investigation will be with respect to the
signal. A young man, son of Mr. Mawdsloy, nation-
=after at Basmerssat, whom duty it was to attend to
the signal, declares that the signal at the end of the
tassel was on, but the engine driver connected with the pa-
urger train isequally °mildest that the signal was not on.
the signal had been ae, which consists of a red disc which
le very perceptible, it would have been the duty of the en-
driver tolls,. proceeded slowly through the tunes], •
of 250 yards, and the stager would thus have been
melded. The signal was Ided by the instructions of Mr.
Vann, and was found to be is tinkles coodition. The
essidest occurred at • nomeer before one o'clock in the
and by half-pest Mier o'cleth the line was per
tee▪
tkeleiro es that the Weiss seeM pees es usual. Intelli-
ggddeesee~
the
as saddest wes seas elsoulated throughout
is usual usher web circumstance, the
abets of odastleghe **teem much ted. It
WY reported in Baty GM the ikbees that mare'
ClPLawere killed • peal umber waseispd ; whereas
sti h is, that with the oweepelee se the guard, who was
ollbetemetely killed, Ibsen do:set appear to have been any
bone leekeo,—Messaleehr 14ankter.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE FROM A WlNDOW.—Yes-
terday morning, a woman residing at No. 9, Broad-
court, Bow-street, attempted self-destruction by throwing
herself from the second flier window of the house on the
pathmeat below—a fall of shout thirty feet. Some of the
neighbours who saw her limp were perfectly horrified, sup-
posing that instant death most be the coasequeee. Oa
approaching her, however, CI she lay on the pavement,
they found her alive, and apparently not seriously injured.
She was removed to King's College Hospital, sad whew
she was iniamthed by the resident surgeon, it appossod
that not a boa* was broken, and that the endwise@ Mae
very slight. Such an almost miraculous map is sale*
attributable to the sir having inflated her pandas% Mt
that they formed a kind of parachute during the illemmal
She remains in the hospital under medical treatises an/
complains very much of her back, from which it is Ihl
that the spine has sustained some injury.
A MAN KILLED IN PARK-LANE, PICCADILLY.—.
This mash' a rasa of the name of Charles Thule, aged
60, was actin on the top of some coals, which were It a
waggon, when he accidentally slipped off. He was phial
up in a state of insensibility and conveyed to Bt. ~11
Hospital, where death soon terminated his stiffeners.
HORRIBLE CASE OP HIDEOPHOBIA AT Lux.
BILO.—Ra instant, of this very terrible, di•treenwSi aid
mysterious malady has recently occurred in this neighbour-
hood. A middlsaged woman, the wife of • labourer, vies
bitten by a eat some time is May last No doubt it seems
masted at the time that the salsa was rabid, and the wail
popular preventive, or perhaps therm, a kind of soft stoat,
(llitAfean), was taken by the woman, and persevered is be
three months—the time stated to be necessary end nliduet
to neutralise the virus. However, on Monday eV
unpleasant symptoms commenced, loss of appetite.
near, Re. On Wednesday the dreadful sense of sollbeallast
was felt. Oa Friday medical aid was obtained. Ihe &gaffe
Aside, or rather of swallowing. was by that time weimpkbee
the mere offal to seise anything with the hoed, for the
pose of *Wag or dnnking it, brought on most dWeem
spasms ; eves the touch of a damp cloth or garment bean
the MIN tirdlet. As yet the mind was calm, bat is the soma
of the night the bead became much 'Meted, and during the
following da and night, excepting for short intervals, she
got very violent; at one time abasing them around her,
charging them with the bluetit's of destroying her—et
soother, most pitifully, sad with usaistakeable stheerity,
imploring that she might not be killed until she should see her
absent children She knew, bet scarcely named the cause of
her suffering. The belief amongst the poor being, that the
law not only allowed, hut commands that perms.. affected
aboald be destroyed by poieoe, suffocation, or bleeding, ski
begged only for a respite. Tee scene was heart-rend*/
in the extreme. She foamed, and the ,viscid saliva in her mouth and about her lips made her
furious. Whilst it hang thus she was in dreadful .
y yesterday, that her Majesty's ship Castor had sailed
If she touched it with her bud or arm in her sposmode troth DethriPerti with a Cape of Good Hope mail, on the
attempts to get rid of it, she was violently °meshed. In 25th inst.; sad that her Majesty's ship Sires had sailed
the short intervals between these pangs, she was calm, but from the same port on the same day, with mails for Hie de
looked unearthly, and apr ke like a Sybil of things to come.
Her sufferings were prolonged until two p.m. sa Sunday. "- ei
Stow seined bee some time that notwiag, sad Is that mete ATTACHING A LUMP OF GOLD.—A monster nog-
she died. get, exhibiting at New York, aad valued et 10,000 L, was
EXTRAORDINARY CASK OP SOMNAMBULISM.—A lately attached by a painter for 41., being the amount of his
few mornings ago (says the Dwrhana Chronicle) about five demand for painting a sign-board representing the nugget,
o'clock, one of our policemen on duty discovered a man and placed "F" the exhibition room.
Mttug on the stain of • house «espied by • person named RAILWAY CALLS DUE IN OCTOBEIL—Thu railway
Carnes, in Creagan. he was almost in • state of tidily, calls faUirg due in October, se far as they can yet be seen-
having nothing on bats shirt and waistcoat, end blood was tained, meant to 601,2661. The total calls for the ten
flowing from a wound to his bead. On being iuteuogated, months either present year are thus raised to 11,726,6221
the man stated that be had been &sepia, at a public use against 12.072.0664 in the cartwlninding period of that year,
is Silver-street, which he dreamt was on Sn ; that he had and 9,083,8011. Ia 1853.
mime out of the window to save himself from the dunes, CONTRABAND OP Wam—u A Sunderland Mao,"
sad that he had left his watch and trousers under the writing to a load paper, says At the present time thus
pillow of a bed Is the same how,. From the seeditioa he are many thousand tons of pig inn lying on the quays of
was I. the dicer took him to the Infirmary, sad afterwards the Sunderland Dock this frog Is being (sad has been
west to this Fleece lan, in Silver-street, sad typed up the diving*, year) shipped to Stettin. The espial.. of the
landlord to beguile how ler his story was estreet. Oa pro Prude* vends say. We carry it to Prank, it then
wording to • room at the top of the Imeresa is whisk the walks nate "
kadhard_,..l4 them was • wee named IDA, duping, WAY THE Yoizsaiu UNION HUNT CLUL--TINIIMIIOIII
were meow sandaled to find the winds wrap' t e tawllllloolll Sr the members of this dub takes. gage ea Wed.
unsionspied, sad the watch sad Browne Past the pilaw, oppki ma mends, neat. The greed Oen Stew bl the
as the ease essrand, doh wide is mow probably unrivalled bywapthing the
lama Rupgis.—Betwoon lislyboad and Dina Modes tap will talue_plam Wodbmiej owsa•
is the recto espy teams by napes as Asir way to and ion iag Oa Udies Mad Isms "sums dlard
Euglead. Upwards et 5,000 ban areseed hem thins/1M Laansmin. whoa Os mead mem ars mooted to d
harvest, and hose numbers arrive at Holyhead revaryjewea eamiloatbstftoa that main there will be the usual
fag by the train, and *sit the deputsre of the as heat, abseri wader the immehate puree's' of the club.
ism while they are peeked almost like cattle. TM Tack Brants' has been selected as the charity
geMa latifieg with their *misers, the meet whisk is to Math hem the surplus ressipte derived trim
babe ousged 72. par day—!tuts Wahl Otrashis, this ball.