The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-30 00:00:00

Eastbourne to their tows barracks, and these poor men
seem to have received the greater share of the injuries la-
thered by the accident. Before enumerating the various
injuries sustained by the unfortunate passenger,, it may be
as well to give some idea of the actual fade of the occur-
rence as gathered by personal observation of the line, and
the general upset of the spot from • short time after
the melancholy event up to the time of writing these re-
marks. The portion of the line where the accident happened
is almost straight and level, and belongs to what is known
as the "loop line." The train had safely pasted the Balham
station, and was proceeding at a rapid rate on its
journey, and had barely arrived at the station
at Streatham-common when there was a per-
ceptible jolting. The station was scarcely passed when
the engine left the rail, taking with it the whole of the
train. At this moment, strange to say, the boiler
of the locomotive exploded, and brought the train
to • sadden stop, the result being that engine,
tender, and carriages were all mixed up in one coa-
-1 fused and broken mass. The escape of the majority
of the passengers seems a miracle, for the greater portion of
the carriages were, by the force of their collision with each
other, almost torn into ribands. As it was, how-
ever, the mutilation was frightful to a degree,
and to use the term of a gentleman who was one of
the earliest arrivals on the scene, "there were scores
and scores of poor creatures drawn out of the debris
with shattered limbs, and to all appearances dead." Au ex-
amination of the rails taken cursorily give' no sign of defect
which would account for the engine first leaving the rails,
and the road was so much torn up that it is almost impoe-
sible to give any ides, of its previous coodition.
Througheut the whole of the night and up to 10 o'clock
this (Saturday) morning a vast number of workmen were
engaged in clearing the line and removing the broken car-
riages, after the sufferers had been extricated and conveyed
to town, with a few exceptions. The aeons during the night
was what might truthfully be termed awfully grand, fires
having been lighted and fed with the fragments of the
broken carriages, and the workmen appeared like • mass of
spectres moving among the debris as the dawn of day ap-
peared and dimmed the brilliancy of the camp-like fires.
Upon inquiry at St. Thomas's Hospital this day at noon
our reporter was informed by Mr. Simon, the surgeon, that
the unfortunate men John Salmon, the engine-driver, and
Edward Tribe, the firemen, were still alive, although in a
very bad state. Salmon, the driver, who resides at 29, St.
George's-road, Southwark, presents a most frightful appear-
ance in consequence of the were scalds, burns, and other in-
juries he received. Hostess that the train appeared running
quite safely and correctly, until after the momentary jump-
ing, which indicated that she had left the rails, when with that
slight warning the boiler of the locomotive buneand the poor
man was thrown some distance up the line, and became en-
tangled with the debris. He was frightfully burnt sad scalded,
but no fracture. have been discovered, still great fears
exist in consequence of the shock which his system has
received. Tribe, the fireman, who resides at Bitterest, was
as severely injured, and as narrowly escaped instantaneous
death is his mate. He was also thrown a great distance
when the boiler exploded, sad was most severely scalded all
over his head, face, and body.
With regard to the injured people who were removed to
houses in the immediate neighbourhood of the accident,
there is such • difficulty in getting any particulars that
we can give no details, but from inquiries made no infor-
mation could be gained of any cases of a serious nature.
The remains of the carriages having been removed, the

traffic was enabled to he renamed this morning, and there his
been scarcely any interruption to the general running of the
trains beyond that portion of the goods traffic which is
generally canted on during the night, bat this is only to
• small extent, as the line whore the acci-
dent took place is only • link in the general
system of the Brighton Company's line. The body of work-
men, which, under Mr. Francis and Messrs. Heald and
Brown, was brought down to the scene of the accident, la-
bound most assiduously in extricating the sufferers, and
also in clearing the line ; and the greatest credit is also due
to the numerous medical gentlemen who attended, and ren-
dered each prompt and efficient aid in alleviating the suf-
ferings of the wounded.
Fromthe exaggerated rumour' which were spread through
the metropolis last evening (Friday) the greatest apprehen-
sions of the gaiety of relatives was manifested at the ter-
minus of the Loudon and Brighton Railway, and even up
to midday there were many people applying for information
as to the names and descriptions of the injured passengers.
It may therefore be advisable to state, that the majority of
the injured people were brought to town by the special
train which was telegraphed for immediately after the
occurrence.
At the Streatham Station the body of Charles Stone, one
of the Grenadier Guards, and described as aged 40 years, and
married, was removed.
The name of the other soldier was given as Blondin,
and his body also lies at the station. His age was
stated to be 27, and he was unmarried. Stone
died evidently from the crushing of the sternum, sod
Blondin from severe injuries to the skull.
The lady who was killed is not Mrs. Silver, as his been
stated, and her remains still lay at the Hope coffee-house,
awaiting identification.
With regard to Fawley and Walker, the guards in charge
of the train, their escape is most miraculous, as the break
was shattered ; bat still both men were bruised, and
Fawley had his left arm fractured above the elbow.
In addition to the names of the soldiers who were

killed, the following is the list of those unfortu-
nate men returned as being dangerously wounded :
Odour-Sergeant William Fawlen ; Privates Obadiah Priam
and William Lewis. Others injured:—Privates Joshua
Heath, John Gittens, William Sadler, Charles Col-
lins, William Beckett, Sanders Bedf rd, William
Jones, Richard Colville, Edward Somerdeld, Smith
Priam, Richard Mimeos, George Jones, Walter Rid-
dle, George Lads, James Bowler, John Chapman,
George Cooke, Edward Anthony. Henry Payne, James
Yokes, Robert Adams, William Anderson, Corporal J.
Clarke.

edema Lambert (oornmandiog the battalion) went
through the wards of the Grenadiers' Hospital at Roches-
ter-row this morning, accompanied by General Crawford,
Major-Geoeral Lord Roksby, and other °Mows, who evinced
the greatest anxiet► as to She state of the unfortunate men.

THE LATE GENERAL " STONEWALL" JACKSON.—
Yesterday slams °umbel. of gentlemen smatobledat the rooms
of the Southern Club, Liverpool, for the purpose of deciding
upon the best means of expressing their sympathy with the
family of the late General Jackaon. After sotos dissuasion
of a merely conversances' character, it was agreed to call I
a public meeting on Wednesday next, to be held la the
small concert•room of StCleorge's-ball.
BISHOP BLOMPIELD, S PROMOTIONs.—We cannot
find, indeed, in the lit of the clergymen whom he pro-
mated, any who &save to be spoken of as eminent scholars
or divines or Min of genius. Mr. Sinclair is indeed an able
and a good man ; v made himself extremely useful as se-
cretary to the National Society. Bat having said this, we
have said all that the subject requires of us, because no-
body, we premise, will speak of the bishop's nominees in
the important pansies of Loodot! West as more than highly
respectable sanitise, as well in the pulpit as elsewhere.
—Bfackwood's Megazine, for June.
ESCAPE TROY THE DARTMOOR PRISON. —A man
named John Kennedy was convicted of burglary at the
Central Crimiaal Court on the 19th of September, 1859,
and sentenced to a beg term of imprisonment at Dart-
r moor. On the morning of Tuesday last he was seen in the
chaS:rf the prison ; but a few hours afterwards he could
so he found. It was then ascertained that he bad
over the wall by means of a rope. Later on the
tine day he was apprehended by a police cotutable in a
public-house at Ashburton, wearing an outer dress which
his had obtained in some way not explained. The prisoner
mods an escape with three others about two years ago, and
was brought back to the prison. On Thursday last the
prisoner was brought before a magistrate and committed to
take his trial at the next Devoe sasizes in July. On the
former 00016311 he and his companions were not proescuted.
THE ALASAMA.—A telegram has just been re-
celled is Liverpool, via Lisbon, from the Brazil mail
packet, which states the* the Confederate steamer Alabama
ban taken the following four ships, viz. :—The Dorm Prince
and the Union Jack, both from New York for Shanghai ;
the Sea Lark, from Boston for California ; and the Nye, a
whaler.