The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-23 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE •
LANCASTER AND PRES-
TON RAlLWAY.—Between four and five o'clock on IlonCay
evening a collision took place by which one life hue been
sacrificed, another individual su reriously injured that his
ciea..l is hourly expected, and frees 1.5 to 20 reruns more c r
less maimed and bruised in a minor degree, at the Bay
Horse station of the above railwsy, about six miles from
Lancaster. It appean, from information collected on the
spot, that the express down train, which was cue at Lan-
caster nearly three-quarters kf an lour earlier, ran into a
parliamentary train, about 20 minutes to five o'clock, while
the latter was waiting to take up and discharge short fare
parseagers. The shock, as might be anticipated, was ter-
rible, on account of the velocity at which the express train
was proceeding at the time. Two of the carricges of
the government train, belonging to the Lancaster Canal
company wens shivered into fragments, and the occupants
scattered, Weeding and mutilated, in all directions on the
line. One poor woman, reap f stably connoted, named Aires,
who had Leen on a visit to ker daughter at Preston, had both
her legs so dreadfully shattered by the collision that she
expired in a few minutes. She was tlr, wife of a tradesman
residing at Poulton by-the-Sands, near Lancaster, and has
left seven children to lament their premature bereave-
ment. Slue had an infant with her at the time about
eighteen months old, which was miraculously pre-
served by either being driven through the winduws by
the force of the shock, er thrown out by the unfor-
tunate mother in the extremity of her agony and in
hope of saving its life. The little creature alighted in a field
and was picked up without being much the wor-e. An old
man, named Billington, was so much hurt that his recovery
is considered doubtful. A young man, a butcher from Pecs.
ton, whose name could not be ascertained, was also so dread-
fully mutilated as to inTire apprehensions of a serious result.
Seven or eight other persons were also picked up with frac-
tured limbs, but all of thcm,we are glad to hear, seem likely to
survive. Independent of the linen, upwards of a eloan
indivii:usls =veined severe bruises and contutions.
With the exception of a few broken heads and noses, the
passengers in the express train s aperienced no great amount
of personal damage. Various reports are 84,M as to the
muss of the accident, but all agree that it was owing to
some mismanagement in the signals, though on the part of
which company remains for junicial investigation. The
inquest on the body of Mrs. Airey is fixed to be held in the
Town Hall, Lancaster, this day.
SUBSCRIPTION BY THE GERMANS IN MANCHESTER.
—The subscription for the woun :ed and the widows and
orphans of the fallen victims in the popular struggle in
Berlin and Vienna has been closed, and the amount of 6031.
collected. The committee have sent 3501. to Berlin, and 75/.
to Vienna, to the proper authorities, for distribution. A
small remaining balance of about 231. they have handed over
to the Society for Distressed Foreigners in Manchester, ac-
counts received from Berlin stating that the funds sent in
from all parts are quite ample.