The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-15 00:00:00

[Stamped, ld. Additional.]

THE PIUGHTFI7L ACCIDENT ON THE

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.

When the telegraphic menage for surgical aid reached
Edinburgh, a special train was immediately prepared, and
took out to the scene of the accident Drs. Gillespie, Young
Gibb, and Spence. There were she on the spot Dr. wa-
ke), of Winohburgh, and Dm. Gilmour, Baird, Spews,
and Ferrier, of Linlithgow. When the medical gentle-
men from Edinburgh arrived on the spot, they first
visaed the three carriages which formed the tut
of the Scottish Central train, which bad been removed to
some distance east from the scene of the accident ; they
there found that several of the passengers had been merely
scalded ; that one youtg lady, about nineteen yaws of cap,
bad been seriously wounded in the leg, so es to render
amputation necessary, mad that one gentlemen Led been so
much injured in both legs that he was not expected to
survive. They immediately despatched • telegraphic
message to the officials of the Edinburgh Royal Infir-
mary to get beds prepared, and send stretchers
to the railway station to be ready for the COQ-
maws al the indium to the infirmary. Pro-
, (media' nut in the rueful train to Craigtown-
bridge, they found the scene already described—the engines
and tenders all smashed up and standing half on end, with
eight or nine carriages above them, looking, as it is said, as
high as a three-storey house. Beneath the rubbish, and
elm itibettender, some four or five people were lying close
together,"ast of whom had been crushed or mothered to
death. Among them, however, was the wife and child of the
guard of the Glasgow train, both of whom were alive when
first discovered. It is reported se having been a touching
sight to see the guard, who had been himself injured about
the bead, and whose face was literally covered over with
blood, exerting himself to the danger of his life in
endeavouring to extricate his wife and child ; and all the
peaseuers within sight and bearing were much affected by
hearing the ohild cry out, " Oh, father, take me out !" The
mother died before she could be taken out, but the child,
we are glad to learn, has been saved. As the dead
bodies were extricated they were placed in a horse-box and
guard's van, and the injured were placed in first-class car-
riages and removed in special trains to Edinburgh.
The scene at the Edinburgh station as the trains arrived
with the dead and wounded was moat exciting, the statics
being crowded with friends of passengers fall of anxiety as
to their fate. Many a touching scene occurred ma friends
were recognised among the wounded, and taken away to
their homes or to the infirmary, according as their wounds li
were severe or otherwise.

As usual on such OCCIIIIiOII/ there were many narrow
escapes. Among these we may mention the case of Mr.
Cranston, of the Waverley Hotel, who was in the front
third-class carriage of the Glasgow train, sitting next
the side on the second last seat. When the collision
occurred the side of the carriage fell away, and be fell
or rather slid to the ground on the line, just as the
van and other carriages came down on the top of the carriage
amongst all the peeseogers. He escaped altogether unhurt,
without even a sant* and hie escape is almost miraculous.
A young lady, Mr.. Paterson, of Leaswade, was struck on
the breast, and a brooch which she wore broke in two. Sillb
escaped uninjured, and spent the night ln Cranston's Hotel.
Mr. Lamb, a traveller for Simpson and Co., of Oxford-
street, was a passenger in the train, and soaped with a gash
on hi brow, and was able to walk to Cranston's Hotel.

James Baird, the guard I. charge at the train from Glas-
gow, escaped without * scratch. He states that as soon as
the collision occurred, he jumped off and ran along the line
with his lamp in his hand, to prevent any other train
coming up.

The awe of the accident (says the Scotsman) was un-
doubtedly some niivunderstanding as to the signal at the
single line, but nothing is positively known as to who is in
fault.

The eleven dead bodies removed to the police office Sal
laid out in two rooms for identification, and present, as may
be imagined, an appalling spectacle.
$OlllO who arrived in Edinburgh on Monday night esti-
mated the number of dead bodies at twenty, °then ►t fit•
teen, but the exact number is not known ; and the follow-
ing ia as complete a list of the killed and wounded as could
be obtained.

DEAD.

Up to balf•past two o'clock eleven bodies, eight male and
three female, had been brought to the bead police-office,
Highstreet. One of the women appeared to be about 70
years of age, and all her teeth were goes. She was dreamed
in a black dress, and had in her pocket a powder, bearing
the name of " Kemp, Portobello." Those identified are—
Mr. Hosie, Dumfermline ; and Mr. Cowie, goods superin-
tendent at Stifling. Mr. Cowie had in his poessenion letters
from "Mr. Fleming, Falkirk." Mrs. Hoeeyman, wife of
the driver of the Glasgow train, is among the dead. She
had a young child with her. It, strange to say, escaped un-
injured, and wee left at Winchburgh. Its mother lived
about three-quarters of an hour after the accident. A gen-
tleman, identified as Mr. Macfarlane.

WOUNDID.

Miss Smith, Grange-plan, Edinburgh, severely scalded.
Four men severely scalded, and one of them has sustained a
compound fracture of the lower jaw. Two men having
severe head injuries. A soldier of the Scot' Greys sustained
compound fracture of the left leg. Two men with injuries
oa the shoulder and breast. One gentleman, a Mr. Hardy,
of Aberdeen, is severely scalded from head to foot, and the
whole of the outer skin peeling off. Archibald Niel, driver
of the train from Glasgow, daugerous injuries about the
head and neck, and severely scalded. This man states that
after he passed Linlithgow he got a signal to go on, and
consequently went ahead. Margaret Clark, of Linlithgow,
has sustained compound fracture of her right leg below the
knee. Mr. Elder, commercial traveller, Broughton-street,
Edinburgh, has been injured severely about the bead. Mr.
and Mn. Kerr, of India-place, Glasgow, severely burned,
Two prisoners who were on their way tooth@ Perth Peniten-
tiary were injured about the heed and limbs. The soldier
who had charge of them escaped unhurt. Mr. Masai,
of Cupar•Fife, was dreadfully scalded. Mr. Honey-
man, driver, very severe injuries about the limbs.
Alexander Alison, injured about heed and limbs. Robert
Scott, SI, Oausewayside, face and leg severely injured. Mr.
Rosa, Barony-street, face much scalded and contused.
Amongst those whom we heard of as being wounded were
Mr. Middlemass, of the Rainbow Tavern, North Bridge,
who was severely hurt about the head. Amongst the pas-
sengers who were wounded and taken to their homes in cake
was Mr. Wolch, of the firm of Bottum and Welch, habit-
makers, George-street, who, we understand, was seriously
injured about the thigh.
The scene after the accident, as described by eye•wit-
nesses, was one of the most ►ppalling that it is possible to
conceive. The parliamentary train from Glasgow at five
o'clock, consisting, so far as could be ascertained, of eleven
or twelve carriages, well filled with pamengers, was proceed-
ing along at a very quick pace, when in the cutting at
Cralgton-bridge, about one and a half mile west of Winch.
burgh, and four and a half on this side of Linlithgow, it
came in contact with the five o'clock north train from
Edinburgh, composed of two first and two third class
carriages, a guard's van, and a horse-box. The result
was one terrible shock which shattered the swims,
and then soother, still wore tremendous, caused, it is sup•
posed, by the carriages leaping up over the engines and
above one another. The engines remained with their
funnels close together, their front wheels slightly elevated,
the tenders crushed forward upon the boilers, and the car-
riages piled, some in fragments and some only partially
broken, on the top of all, to the height, it is said by some, of
the new houses in Cockburn-street, while none make it less
than the height of the Edinburgh Railway Station from
the platform to the roof. To add to the horror of
the situation, the first shock dashed out the lights
in all the carriages, and those partially injured
tumbled out into the gloom of the cloudy night with very
vague notions as to the nature of the accident, their
ignoranoo alike as to the character and extent of the occur•
relics rather adding to than diminishing their fear.
The total darkness was soon succeeded by something even
more frightful—the light from the flaming carriages nearest
the engines, which were ignited by the fires. Attention was
immediately directed to this new sonde of alarm, and
labourers were employed in relays to extinguish it
by w►ter, which luckily they succeeded in doing.
Immediately underneath this burning portion lay
a woman and two childrse, wife and family of
the guard of the Glasgow train, who was himself wary se-
riously injured. His wife was taken oat alive, but abo did