The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-18 00:00:00

THE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN SCOTLAND.

On Thursday Captain Taylor, government in-
spector of railways, mended to Linlithgow and made a
meriting investigation into the muse of the accident,
having at the Star and Garter Hotel examined great num-
bs= of persona in the course of the day. He also obtained
access, through the sanction of Sheriff Home, to the
pointsman Newton iq prison, whom he examined. There
being, however, no others present in the cell, the result
of the investigation has not transpired. No deaths
have taken plan at Linlithgow. Mr. Shaw is still
in a critical state. Sheriff Home and Mr. Watson,
Procurator•frisesl, were engaged to a late hour in the pre-
cognition of witnesses, and what transpired appears to have
led to the ►pprehension of William Davidson, driver of
the pilot engine, who was in the evening examined and r►
mended.

AU the injured by the recent collision on the
Edinburgh and 6laegow Railway who were taken to the
Infirmary are still progreesieg favourably °a the whole,
though several of them continue in • very precarimm
state. Mrs. Dempster, from Stirling (Ward No. 3) ;
Mr. IVNab, Cuper (Ward No. 5) ; Iran Marc Fal-
kirk (Ward No. 5) ; John Harvey, Scots Greys cWard
No. 8) ; John li'Douald (Ward No. 13) ;
Broughton street (Ward No. 18); Alexander Alison, Lin-
lithgow (Ward No. 18) ; and Alexander Logan, Mir
burgh (Ward No. 18), are still reported dangerously ill. Of
the twenty-four sufferers who were takes to the Infirmary
on Monday night, six have left or bees removed, four (as
already reported) have died, and there still remain fourteen.
Mr. Robert Saltnoad, confectioner, Kircaldy, was so much
better that be was able to go home. Mrs Dempster was
on Thursday night reported by the medical attendants to be
seriously iIL
Oa Thursday night, the body of the man whose deems—a
east-off coat belonging to • railway servant—had led to the
impreadou that he was employed on the Dunblans, Douse,
and Callender Railway, was ideatified by some railway
officials as that of Michael M'Quade, • labourer, lately
residing with John Anderson, a pointernan, at the South
Alloy junction of the Scottish Central Railway.
Several of the bodies were interred on Thursday. Cun-
ningham, the engine-driver of the train from Glasgow, who
was so shockingly scalded and crushed. was buried in Dairy
Cemetery, his remains being conducted to the grave by •
large number of friends. The young girl. Elizabeth Steven-
son, whose death was apparently caused by suffocatioa, was
interred in Preatonetreet Burying Ground by her relation.
Mr. Brown, cabinet-maker, St, Leonard's. The remains of
Miss Emily Smith, Grange-place, who met her death side-
by-side with her betrothed, were also conveyed to their but
resting-place in the course of the day.
Included in oar let of three passengers who were killed on
the spot was Mr. John Wightman, who had in his posses-
sion a ticket to larbert Mr. Wight:nen belorader
Lander, where be was farm-manager to the Earl of
dale. He had business at Falkirk Tryst, but was going to
Larbert to see • married daughter on his way. A corre-
spondent, writing from Lauder, says :—" He was a moat re-
spectable man, and is very much regretted by the Esti and
all here. He was going by the previous train, but waited
for the shepherd and missed it. He took the next, and lost
his life."

One of the partners of the firm of Hammond, Turner, and
and Co., of Birmingham, for whom Mr. E. S. Bolton
trsvelled, came through to Linlithgow on Wednesday, and
took possession of the property which had been taken from
the person of his deceased friend by the police previous to
his body being aent to Glasgow. There is a singular and
melancholy circumstance connected with Mr. Bolton's
death. He had applied for an assurance policy, and was
examined by the medical agent of the company in Edin-
burgh. on the very day of the accident. His intention was
to have gone by the two o'clock, but was delayed in conse-
quence of having to undergo the medical examination—the
delay of a few hours thus costing him hie life. What makes
his fate the more deplorable to his family is, that although
he left on the understanding that he would be accepted
when the report was given in to the head-office of the com-
pany, and bad left money with • friend to pa y the premium,
he met with his death before the policy had been accepted
by the office.
Mr. Welsh, of Holtom and Welsh, George-street, who
was Liken home in • daugerous state, was up to last night
progressing favourably.
Mrs. Cowan, Farquharson-place, has, we learn, sustained
injuries of a very revere character. She was so much bruised
on the face as to be scarcely recognisable, and one of her
legs was broken. On her arrival at the station she was sup-
posed to be dead, and the police were about to remove her
on a stretcher when her son came forward and took
her in his charge. She was conveyed to the house
of • friend nearer the station than her own home,
and where medical assistance was immediately procured.
The unfortunate lady still remains in • somewhat pre-
carious stela Miss Herr, 31, Morrison-street, sister of
Mrs. Cowan, and travelling to Edinburgh with her, was
severely bruised ever the whole body, her joints being
swollen and twisted, and her head out.
Mr. Peter Somervail, farmer, Glendevon, Winchbergh,
was bruised severely on the left shoulder. Thu gentle-
man, being near his own home, rendered most valuable
assistance to the sufferers, going home immediately and
sending all his labourers to assist ; also bringing cordials
for the refreshment of the wounded. Mr. Somervail was by
the stock dashed against a fellow-passenger sitting in the
opposite seat of • tirst-class carriage, and both were for a
tune rendered insensible.

Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Merrileta, 101, George•street, were
in the train coming to Edinburgh, in a cornputment of •
first-class carriage, in which the touts opposite were vacent.
They were both thrown against the opposite sides of the
cushioned carriage, and escaped with almost no injury ex.
eept abrasion of the legs. Mr. Meridiem, in common with
several other puatngers, states that he heard no noise from
the shock itself, and that • dead silence prevailed for several
seconds. This impression may probably be attributed to
the stunning effect of the shock upon the senses.
Apart from the destruction of the company's property
coessioned by the accident., the v►lue of which is set down
at 5,0001., they have also suffered to a considerable extent
by the depreciation of their shares in the msrket, and
by the diminution in their passenger traffic since the
occurrence. In many of the trains passing along the line
on the two following days the Out passenger carriages were
invariably unoccupied. Great excitement has been produced
among the speculators in the stocks on the leading ex-
changes. The stock fell in Edinburgh from 841. Rh. to 811.
Ds. per share, but Do buyer appeared at that bore. In
Glasgow the fall was greater still, the last price being
801. 10e. In London on Wednesday evening the shares were
quoted at closing at 781. to 804 The average fain') the
stock represents a capital sum of about 100,0001. The stock
of the Scottish Central, which is involved in a secondary
manner in the results of the accident, shows uo alteration.
It is already reported that the Birmingham firm by whom
Mr. E. 8. Bolton, the commercial traveller, was employed,
are to raise an action against the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railway Company, and th►t another action will be raised
oa behalf of the wife of the deceased gentleman.—Scotrinan.