The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-28 00:00:00

TliE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT

BOLTON.

The boy Richard tirceohalgh died at an catty
hour on Thersd iy. morning of the injuries net ived in the
Lancashire sad 1 orksliire train from Liverpool on Mon-
day eveniag. It will be recollected that the boy was
travelling with his parents, and that all of their, ides'
with ten or • dozen other pasesegen, were a good deal
hurt, but his case was the most serious.
John Taylor, Esq., the comber of Bolton, we:shied a
jury together the mine day at eme o'clock, at the Court-
house, and an inquest was taken at the same time also
ea the body of Lee Bancroft, the signal man' whc
had committed suicide after the oemarmiee in his cabin.

311. Jame;Crowsh;w' clerk is charge of the Bolton sta.
lion on the evening of Tuesday, said the Ant train ap-
pointed to leave Liverpool that awaking fir Bolton was the
regular one at 6.40 p.m., and should have arrived at 716
p.m. It arrived, however, at 9.6. It coosisted of 36 car-
riages and started with two engines, but arrived with only
one. Five or ten minutes after it a train arrived. In
four or five minutes more an • train to Bury come
up, which should have left Liverpool at Ng, sad consisted
of thirty-five earriages. A foot* MGM Baresed, which
was an excursion train of thirtrAm aribess_ Slut theme
foe Blue Pita, and which &mall have left Black
6.30. Behind this eerie a hopes train from Liverpool to
Bradford. The sixth whisk mina wan the
train appointed to leave Liveepool en 710. Migg ilfrrteesrlasee
trains reached back beyond the akin where Lee Bancroft
wu stationed. The first train whoa of did not leave Bol-
ton until 9.36. From ioloematima which nuked the sta-
tion at 10 o'clock, witness emit to Hall rid, which is
distant about half a mile awl head there Wesbe a col •
Irina, the list regulni this haltiag no Into the Bradford
luggage train. The Harnessed, Lee Bancroft, was the
pointsman at Bonfield. Ilia duty woo to attend to the
signals and points. On the day in question he ought to
have waited the arrival of the quid trams. He had
notice to that effect, and the notice was posted up in his
cabin. Ile was not there when witness arrived. TM de-
ceased boy, Richard tireenhalgh, wee in • oselage. having
been hart in this accident. Witness saw ineiroft about

1I o'clock. Witness said, "How is this, Basereftl" He
replied, " I do not know." Witness " Did you
know the 6.40 train from Liverpool Imo sal la ?" and he
said, "Yea." He also said he bed teed the special
notice in his cabin, but he said, "I lest see that
I am required to attend, and I tuned out the
sigma light at • quarter to sine. end west lassae."
Ms re wan 19s. per week. IS INNINININI IPS* Si
6301 a • moraine mad left at II es seamy essaeleme,
bat ore modeles setae of Melsedee wee empskull le
reseals until all bid retuned how is vas ram mil
appeared ter lebeerie4 wader the impieties Ike he iris
right imeriFirsay.• Sr dist Min was dubbed et the
'tidiest peesesgove who bed get into ties wrong ear-
riages, see ring Masabristas sad dr ether to
Yeehaldre. If the Ant rooks Olds bed sums at dis rem
time endgame ea, the other would ail hen been detailed,
sad dm aged would not have bees mammary:
[The seeks wan proved to have bees served on Bancroft
of the spodel trains.]
dame' Reglarsa (enginisqlriver of the last train) said he
left Liverpool with 11 earrieges at 7.40. He left West-
Irriaat 9.15. After pr he ise Losteck looked out
rigsal at Belltield. sal there being none, he went
fumed. 'lnes be get within about 200 yards of tbe
geed, wait, he saw three red lights, and knew them
he he ne tie led eta train. 11. reversed the eosin* sad
whistled to the guard to put oa his brake. He was going
at Is odes es hour, and had reduced to six when the mi-
liaria INNIS'S'. Be knew there was another special train
behind ben Preston, and jumped off with hit light and
ran bask an mop it, which he tamed in time. It' the
daemon 'Whet bed boon oak he could have stopped, and
preveseelssidese ; et if thedriver of the luggage train in
edema bed gem leek as he did, it would have been pre-
mead.

Ames Weistesheisee, guard of the luggage train (the
01111 TM IMO, said be get to Gilnow at ten minutes alter
aim amide alp& at Bullfield were not then oa. He
lama the ether Main whistle and ran back 60 yards with
a light, dB he beard the engine driver whistle for the
guard to poems &brake.
Mr. Beam" eargem, said the came of the boy Green-
kaigk's deal we. a blew as the Madder, which he found
on a pod newton essminatien to be crushed and die-
orrisedry izatiftthe.uprerothz wlsorogiseizdoi
Bancroft,.
body
in the cabin after he bad ]maser limit en the night of
the accident. He had arid* her, afar the accident, ' This
is a weary job: I am dose he Ms time." Ile further
said, " Mr. Crow/bay hoe bees bon, and says it is my
fault, but lam sot la die fault : I was them at 20 minutes
to nine ;" and he Wm% " I'll be 'ribbed before morning_;
what will beeeme ed my wife sail Rattly t"
Wm. Whitworth, guard of the train which should have
left Liverpool at 6.40, said they left at 11.10. They had
two eggloso M Upholland, and from Wigan to Lostock.
The mines were heavily lades sad went slowly they
had too little power for such a teak. They reached Bolton
at 9.6 and left at 9.46, being devoid is sorting paw:igen
4& admin.
Neagh Otteashaw said he was at the Medea when the
before omatleaed traias arrived at Belem. There were
only Wiwi:oS
we
at the statism, mad Mr. Swift. The people
were bat then re wit saMeient servants to
direst end them he 'Mktg re There was a fight at
the Maisel swami some Rem Bury. The &Si-
cilia prawn wanted • MAK bat amid not get one and
witness emir saw am Bilk* the whole train.
The kitty, after doillegatisa, returned a Ter.
diet of rerweberetter ambit Lee Bemseeft in the case of the
boy flseembatgb, end now of Minim that Bancroft com-
mitted sahib in a fit of temporary inemity. To these
verdicts they aided: The lazy team separate with-
out ewe/lift their opinion that the eervaate em-
ployed ea the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from
Liverpool he Belton, on Monday, the 23rd of August, were
totally inalmaate to mat the extraordinary demands upon
them, esmoomosst span miming several special Maim, sad per-
minim awearelemble tetravel a ordinary trains. They also
desire, to depress* in the stromett terms, the running of
trains of mush onamal length:and with a deficiency of loco-
motive power teem& the same. And, further, they desire
to state that theme wee great irregularity in the starting and
arrival of Maim ea the day before-named, no less than
seem Maim (too ef them numbering upwards of thirty
carriages ma) ma extending nearly a mile in length, ac-
cumulethig ea i.e line of rails at the Bolton station, ren-
dering an ,mobs of servants indispensable to the safe and
effectual working of the line."