The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-31 00:00:00

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN IRELA.ND.

A TRAIN THROWN DOWN AN
EMBANKMENT.
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DUBLIN, MOIDAI.

A fatal accident occurred on the Midlanurt;;;at
Western Railway, about 5 o'clock on Saturday
evening, to the down train from Dublin to Galsay.
When about two miles from Ballinaaloe, on this
Dublin side, a third-class carriage iu immediate con-
nexion with the engine ran off the rails and wai
propelled down the embankment, throwing tie
tender off the rails, and breaking the coupling
between the tender and train. The engine ran ;;
considerable distance in advance of the train ; tit
carriages following propelled the first carriage with
so much force that it ran down the embankment
into the adjoining field, dragging the others after it,
and overturning the first and second class carriages
which were shattered to pieces. Mr. Glanville,
builder, of Ballinasloe, and a mason, named Henry,
were killed. Five persons received serious injurie,-,
and 20 others sustained slight contusions.

EXTENSIVE FORGERIES AT HUDDERSFIELD.

On Saturday a young man, named Henry Martin
Haigh, who bas just completed his articles with a solicitor
at Huddersfield, was apprehended at Cheater on a charge
of forging cheques upon the Haddonfield Bank to the
amount of 2,0001. At 3 o'clock oo Friday afternoon
information was received at the Police.office, Hodder,,
field, from the bank that cheques bad been forged I,
Haigh upon that establiabmeat, to the amount alreads,
stated, and that there were supposed to be other foi.
geries, not then fully discovered. It was found of
inquiry that Haigh had left Huddersfield, the suppositin
being that he had gone direct to Manchester. Chid-o,
stable Homes, in company with Detective Partridge, too,:
train at 6 o'clock for that city, and on their annul they
found that the fugitive had been is the company of a you .?
woman of disreputable character, and that be had gone with
her to the London.road station. Proceeding to that Mr.,
the odious diaeovered the young woman in question, who
we. standing upon the platform, and, on interrogating
she told them that Haigh had "given her the slip." i ,
• person of prisoner, description bad booked from the
• citation, and the officers accordingly went to Longsight,
where they found that he had booked for Crewe. Pro.
reeding thither, the officers remained there all nigh:,
and at noon on Saturday they went to Chester, arriving
at the station just as a train for Holyhead was about to
start. Mr. Hansen went to look into the carriages, sand
in the compartment of a 61st-class one be tow the
prisoner seated alum. On recqpising Mr. Haines
Haigh made as attempt to wimps by the opposite dr.,e,
The door on the platform side was locked, but Mr.
Hamm, making use of • railway key be had in his
possamicm, quickly entered the carriage and secured his
prisoner. The prisoner resisted the efforts of the police
to take him to the lookup, and it was only after much dif.
ficulty that he wee lod in prison. The officers proceeded
with their prisoner to udderstiald on Saturday bight 0,
being searched. there were found to Haigh's posquion a
WI. Bank of England note, 101. in gold sad saver, • mew gold
watch and chain (worth 301.), a Ant clams ticket iron
Cluster to Cork, and a lore letter, couched in terms of en.
doormat, and addressed to " Dear Liu" The prisoner,
whose family is highly respectable, bad possessed himself of
his brother's sherp•-book, and bad thus committed the
forgeries upon the beak.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE AT SSA.-BIGHT

LI VSS LOST.

One of the most painful and heartrending inci-
dents which have transpired during the late gale vu
witnessed by the crew of the brig Sovereign, Captain
Jscksoo, as its passage from Wyborg to West ifertlapooL
The Sovereign arrived at West Hartlepool on Friday night,
and the captain reports that on Thursday, while his omen
was some distance from Hartlepool, be was steering the ship
in a heavy gale from the eastward, and about half-put
11 in the morning he was suddeuly startled by a voice
calling out, " Brig ahoy." He called out to the man no
watch to know where it proceeded from, and for a fee
momenta they could not parody* anyone, bat looking
behind they ered • small " dings," or ship's bet
with seven men sad • boy in it. One of them bad a small
Eag on • stink, waving it as • signal of diagram, and beckon.
ing them to tore the vessel round. All hands were called
oa deck, wed the ship's course was speedily altered, sod is
• short time the vemel was close to the poor fellows, who
were being tossed about in their little craft in the mo-
mentary expectation of being swamped. On searing them
it was saes that the occupants of the boat were sailor, and
we, who was taken for the nptety wee steering the boat
with an oar. They appeared to be quite exhausted. as though
shipwrecked on the previous day, and had been fightiog be-
tween life and death with the surging waves, without food or
water, in fact there was nothing is the boat but one oar sr!
• life-buoy. A line was immediately hove to this boat, Ltd
it was eagerly caught by the men, and with it they hauled
themselves up to the aide of the ship. One of the men in the
boat fraught hold of the chain fastenings of the rigging for
the pompons of keeping the boat close to the ship, tic:
heavy sea caught the vessel, and pitching it maids lifted the
men out of the boat. On the man tiodiog Dinneen beirg
raised up, be let go, and fall into the boat at the foremost
part of it with his feet, his head going over into the water,
On his companions seeing his danger they sprang forward to
keep him is the boat. In doing so, they upset their
craft, and the whole of them were pitched into the sea sod
drowned.