The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-06 00:00:00

ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE
LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.

We regret to announce the occurrence of another
accident on the northers division of the London and North
Western Railway, by which the life of an engine driver
has been sacrificed, and that of • stoker pieced in jeopardy.
The circumstance% attending the accident may bo thus
briefly told : —The 9.30 a m. up expecte from Liverpool left
that place at its usual haur ys sterday morning. The train
consisted of about twelve carriages and two beech mess, and
there was an unusually full complement of passengers.
The Crewe Junction was reached at 10.4.1 a.m., and at this
station an additional engine was attached to assist the train
up the Madeley Bank, a rather steep iodine, about six
miles south of Crewe and three miles north of Whitmore. '
It is usual when an extr► locomotive is attached to
ordinary trains fur the 'purpose of assisting them up
this bank for the driver to detach his engine as soon as the
line becomes level, run on to Whitmore, and there cross
on to the down line. When anaistanro is given to an
pre« train the extra engines generally runs through to
Stafford, but yesterday it appears the driver had instrue.
tem% to cross the line at Whitmore. As soon as the driver
of the extra engine had detached himself he put on extra
steam, and in • very few minutes shot some distance ahead
of the train. As the latter approached the Whitmore
station the driver an : guards observed that • red Sag—the
signal of danger—was /misted from the pilot engine, which
still remained on the up rails. The *team was lash Cly
shut off, and the express was humght almost to • stand
still before reaching Whitmore. In the meantime tl.e
driver of the pilot engine dropped the red flag, and sound.
in; the all right" signal, ran on towards Stafford, still
upon the up lint of mils. As soon as the pilot had ob-
tained a start the driver of the express. again laid on
his steam, and proceeded at the usual speed. Ile
bad run only three miles beyond Whitmore, when en com-
ing round a sharp curve on the line about a mile north of
Standon. bridge station, the pilot engine wee observed in the
set of crossing on to the down line at Standon coal yard.
When first seen the two engines were scarcely 200 yards
apart, and as the pilot was partly on the up-rails (it ia
alleged vs have been stationary at the time), the avoidance
of • collision was of course 9uite impossible. The driver of
the express sounded his whistle and shot off the steam, but
before he could do more than this the poor fellow was a
corpse. The collision turned the engine of the express
train completely round, and both that and the pilot engine
were ahem. totally destroyed. The guard's van following
the engine was also turned completely round and
thrown into • hedge, Parker, • very old ser-
vant of the compsey, esespii.g by a miracle with
• few severe bruises. The stoker was dreadfully
injured—his arm, leg, end thigh were broken, and
his shoulder dislocated. Eight of the carriages in the
train were thrown off the rails, and the passengers were
many of them severely shaken and hurt; but it is • most
remarkable and satisfactory fact that, with a few exceptions,
the persons in the train do not appear to have suffered so
severely as might have been anticipated. One gentleman
bad his merle dielocate.l, another sustained • severe lacera-
tion of the face, two or three others were cut and bruised
about the head, and two ladies sustained a slight concussion
of the brain. It has been stated that the driver of the
express wee killed on the spot. ills body was found under
one of the carriages shortly after the accident. What be-
came of the driver and stoker of the pilot engine is not
accurately known; but neither of them were hurt. What
they can have to say in explanation of their conduct re-
mains to be seen.
The 7.30 a.m. third class train from Liverpool, was passed
by the express at the Madeley station, and as it follows very
closely fears were entertained of its running into the ex-
press after the accident occurred. Preston, the Manchester
guard, who was in the break at the rear of the train, and
who suffered only • severe shock from the collision, imme-
diately ran bark some distance and stopped the progress of
this train, which he took back to Whitmore, and brought
from thence assistance in the shape of carriages and la-
bourers. A telegraphic message was also seat from Whit-
more to Stafford requesting assistance from that station,
which arrived within a very short period.
The line wise so mach disturbed by the collision that seve-
ral hours elapsed before it could be got clear. Medical
assistance was on the spot very soon alter the accident, and
aid was rendered in all eases where necessary. Some of
the passengers preferred returning to Liverpool, but the
greater portion came on to London. It was nearly 6 o'clock
when the train left Stafford, and it did not arrive at Easton-
square until after 9 o'clock.
There had been greatly exaggerated reports of the acci-
dent prevalent during the afternoon in London, and a large
number of persons having friends is the train assembled at
Euston-square terminus, awaiting its arrival with great
anxiety. When at drew up at the arrival platform there
were many hearty greetings exchanged, and the congratu-
lations that the consequences of the accident had not been
more serious were loud and frequent on all sides. One per-
son in the train, a foreign lady, appeared to have sustained
severe injury. Her head was bound up, and she seemed to
have suffered considerably.
Captain Haigh and Mr. Bruyeres are both gone down the
line, and the circumstances of the accident will no doubt
undergo a very searching investigation this day.

THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION AT WAPPING.—
Yesterday afternoon Mr. W. Baker, jun., the deputy-ooro-
ner, resumed an inquiry at the London liospital, respect-
ing the death of George Virrall, aged 66 years, the unfor-
tunate man who lost his life by the late explosion at the
Green Bank Saw-mills, Old Gravel-lane, Wapping. The
coroner remarked on the ease at great length, and after the'
jury bad consulted for half an bone they unanimously
agreed to the following verdict: "Accidental death, by the
explosion of an engine-boiler, situawd at Green Bank Saw-
mills, Wapping; and the jury wish to add, they canticler
great neglect is attributable to Mr. Mark J. Tomkins toe
allowing ths boiler to be used after being repeatedly In-
formed by the engine-driver of its unsound state, and they
also exonerate the engine-driver from all blame."
CArIVRE 01, • TWPASSING RAILWAY ENGINE.
—Daring the &mat week the Great Northern Railway
Company thin meameand running trains from Nottingham
to Landes vii the hathargate lisktbe dinners of the two
railings having ream* somplelsl arrangements for that
panne. As the Mann by ibis' mew route is shorter,
speedisa, and onager an the NA on, the Midlands are
threatened with reasiasrable lee of trifle and revenue
thereby. This has Nosed ea it Mika( to spring up be-
tween Ms rival eaeapnlmand OM& forrants, which is
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SUDDEN DEATH OF MM. WILSON, THE WIDOW OF
TUB RUM= Voithusr.—We regret to aileinnel the
death of Yds lady is • artaan swag sudden sad
temelog. She bed mats kis iiiadin at Pomo-
' beam amempuoisd_ a beds/rived, shoat de Vele& es
the monkey of Ontorday Met, and, MONO essweady
waded by that Wt. GS assmot of Ms lass...sr the lbw
sod bee fall habit of body, meshed is *May tams pisemm of
a bath. Mew bind esemised i. th. mifinn »am bee
=the onemeibm sod it that Me asesmed,
id wsiMag deem lbws thit Om Mop with a
'Wiest Mimed= lase water. Ohs did set eks after
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ti Mk Puy, ma this st aoems sashed tem es the
maenadmaenadpsellaberinsbaba g the Mans, sod, as
bees win the spot, letewee wee
bonsai* sewitered,ll"6l2 the ihmossere body, which was
lzionedeohne at the halm% we lifted by them into the
oye
whisk wee without Ashy polka ashen. A visaed
=wee sent far. sod Ss body bile WNW ints Wes
wry mesas mum miployad is seam admollim
without that. Oa as eseseinatieo albs apposeamee pra-
seatedriat the deesesed, ths iheetwail being WM and Ms
jaws it was evident that Sale bed bees seised with a
at, it believed of apoplexy, when she pleased into the
water, mad that her death wee owing to that, sad ass to
asphyxia or dawning.—Nerth AMA Daily Mail.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN =ft CHANNEL—An
accidsst et a very distressing, diseseilse, whereby four lives
were but, oesumed is tho BMW Channel, between
Weakewsper-Man sad Cisesies. as Sunday kW. It
seems Met e ismkg the dammed mass tote,
reeliteS:VeableaW"ad'esesoogar-eho Is=v; it=l=
arrived at their deeditheisa in gaiety. natio, albumen of
the rune day, about drair efelosklase of them whembarked,
with the view of rebook, te Olmedem SW Nth I•Maillieg
with some friends at WMOI% sad srmmelnr his initiation
of returning to elevates, Ms Me MIMI sod Ismer Rail-
way, by en early train the Mowing nothing. At tea
e'eleth the erne sight a "MI was pieked up at Cis:modem,
awl ea Merl* a Matson and hats were aka Mad soar
Rismorea. sdistesess shast two mike trim Clowles.
The yams sea est knits yet made task sppeorsoss, it
was esojeatured that sew occident had
_kmpeasil in their
wriaageserat of the bas• by which they buioil at with
so satins* sad, and bubo were deepatehot Isla Meador'
es Tomb, art mama/ M march far the Maw. The
body stews of el pm. ma was washed where at King-
ston Day as Ilesday snobs, sad it was Seim to the old
church, Climmitia. An ins_ met will be held ea it by the
deputy memor, Mr. T. L. Whitmore. The bodies of the
other throe Naorturials routines have not yet been found.
Two KM KILLED AT LEEDIL—On Wednesday
afters**. two labouring mea, named John Fawcett and
William Howard, were killed on the premiss. of Messrs.
Marshall sad Co., the well-hose's Itanspinners of Leeds.
The two saes, with several others, ware engaged in pulling
down ea old building, El feet high, and latterly used as a
lumber warehouse, and is loosening a large beam Seed I
' into the walnut, the whole of it gave way suddenly, and
the men were buried beneath the rubbish. One man had
his bead mashed quite Eat, one of big legs broken, and hie
body ruptand ; end the other had his right foot literally
broken Mao two pieces, besides being crushed in a fearful
manner. A third man was ales much injured by the fell of
rubbish, but he is expected to recover. The decesud, who
were working inside, had been several times warned of the
denser of their position, but they persisted in keepiag it
until the wall fell. A coroner's inquest has sines been held
on view of the bodies, and a verdict of accidental death re-
turned. Both the deceased were the same age, 30 year",
and Fawcett was a married man.