The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-23 00:00:00

COLLISION AND LOSS OP Lill ON MU LONDON
AND roars WINEUN NAILWAY.
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On &turas, afters°a a colliehr took pier qn
the Ludas sad Nora Western Beilletew, abed Ince WIN
from Bohm, by the meeting d ttA rear rig at sea.
lidera& opted ea a lamb lift ci =IL Three sum rare
killed, several earn wee rifted, sad she easier sad
some of the earlegoi 111111 t0ta11r4114110,14 The whole
district was eaveloped is a dean fug flutist: liatardey, and
oa &ascent el the flask the era weft extremely slippery,
readering moat of the testae escrewhat data At
Dautthill at•tios,i ea ta• BON. KenycierJeadisa,
and Liverpool line, • beg luggage Inis wu draws
up at • sidles waiting for the LSO' trio boa Liverpool,
sad also for the teals from TyillsoleY des &boat a quire
of an hoar later. As efts, however, setts LiverPorl lode
had passed, the goods her, beet esatilawsiplained lama,
was permitted to groomed ea Ulf turas, tower& LiverpeeL
When about half way betwees Dubbin amid Chequebook
and =Gag pared arks Poulin Bridge, it met the Tyldes.
ley rassuser train, sad • bight! al relate was the resale
The eavera were looked together; the teedeft wen bailed
over them ; all the carriages were thrown off the Use. SOMO
of them were west and piled against the side of the rat-
tan ; cue of the passenger carrier's sad the guard's van, and
several of as goods wagons were smaitbed to pieces ; three
of the gag wipes were piled cie the top of sae-
thee while author had made • clear leap over
the art, uct tested oa the third. The peerage, min
happily court= only of use ant, au wooed, and one
third clam carriage. The latter contained eight pusagees,
and thine ware *bout four la the other two. Arieftese
eons arrived from the nearest striate, sad also bra Me
Halton collier= the proprietor of which (Ye W. F.
Hance) was in the 'lntelsat carriage. He was raft
shakes, 44 was takes home la s cab ; his fellowlieunger,
Mr. Ralph Fletcher, escaping unhurt. A young man
named John Ronsiale, of Chequebook • coahallar,
who wes, at the time tidies aria the Mire received
serious ironed =juries. from which he died in &bona
as boar ft a seishboanag farftboass. With the =-
curio& of Mm. Itarklaad, of West Houser ; 3[ta Willmar,
of Belton ; sad Xz.sgeld. d Bolton, who wide is the seeeed
clam cempartment, the ether parengen were sot ma=
hart. Mrs Welber, by Wog throws urn the 'Peale
seat, =slaw= ranee and one Of her t one braised;
lb. Nasal's injunes were of • similar kind ; but Mrs.Mukha' one more aerieuely shaker sad raised. Thomas
Gerdes, of Bailee the itaginodsiver , George Shephstd, of
Behr= the stoker; John 011111fid, the turd of the
train, almort riraceleasly rasped dm*. Gordo..
Cll`,Zwas wary sat about the head sad lip, ad his
foot was ormaked. The wands were sews up by the sumer-
us medical mos wits had harried beat Belton to ruder
afters= sad he was takes to his home. Gerrard was cat
arcs the feeelised, rod braised shoat the heed aed pop.
He says that he knew nothing acid be Mt the shook
which swab= he van to prose ; and Gordon erre that
be saw the grids leer soarer. that he exclaimed to Skiff.
bed, " Oh, Geoeft, let's jump ;" that he did lamp, bat
that ha us umiak whether his comperes took his
=res. A carve in the Use prevented him wag the=
tern bole= it was warty does tree hire It teak
boner to extricate the looked soiree, and then only by the
employment el three *agree it was tbs. loud that
Richard Rigby, the driver and Hubert Sonia, the shim
al the greeds rain, both of Chequebook were MILL I
Rigby's -body was frightfully mutilated. His bead as
surly severed from his body, sad au side el his face we.
quite gess. Boyle was sot so wash disfigured, bat as
doubt is boat awe death was isstastausue The babes
were rid ride ander • sheet, sad allimately taken ea • spe-
cial argue to their homes. Rigby's band was foul
upon the beadle by which the reins is reversed, rid it
was so stiffed= that it was rely aawoned with
Some live years ego Rigby, who is an old servaadtVa
marrow escape by the route was dreier-Ihe lladelart—
rushing from Harrill dawn the iodine into Boit= eta.
non at Great Mess-skeet sad harking dove the raft=
It is • Weep oftrideace that this same Redstart MA the I
engine of the passenger rein on Saturday. It is supposed
the trains were easing at the rate of about it miss ea
hoar. Darin the whole of Saturday eight the worker=
by the aid of huge bootees ideated from the debris were
=chant( the line which um socesi=i:
is
t. sad yesterday the rains ran as nage/
of visitor were lounging alimut the beidge the whets el Meday. The anal eliadiating optaioas are oureut se he wars
mistake this accident is attributable ; bat tee seemileg
isverigarea dearaded from the carcase or alone solve
the point.
It was almost imporill• to lean on whom the blame rests
of allowing the luggage train to proceed free Dubbin
before Ur second passenger rain bad pared , bet it is
stated that the signal sad pastsmrn d Daubbill, =throat
whose concurrence it cock sot have bees doge has been
=speeded readier the earour's inquiry. From inquiry we
heard it stated that whoa the engines met Shea forma
seemed Dearly to neutralise each other, so that they arm to
• dead read and became fast looked together. The radars
of the two engines were viol/illy wrenched from the
repliers of their respective trains, ad went thrown upon
and partly over the sags=

THE ACCOMMODATION ON THE SOUTH
WISTERN RAILWAY.

On Saturday daemon; en influential meeting of
the inialdients of Chinriok, Sew, finriaggrove, and Houn-
slow, wee bad at the Tose-hal, Brantford, for the purpose
ofcoesideriag the Deosesity of obtain additlooal raiway
facilities for ells neighbourhood. Colonel Barmy was called
to the chair, and in opening the proomdiop said that the
loop Bee of the South Western was not suM6ent to meet
the requirements of the locality, and the deficiency of eons-
municatioa between Hoessiew, Oldswisk, aedother parts of
the district was felt by geathressa who resided thee., and who
were connected with the tredimiod moneyed interred. In
sophist he or other 'puska' t say Users was no isles-
ties to salsa on M. Scott, *sac manager of the
Leaden and South Weston. or the officers of that otenpany,
from whom the psamagen received every attention and
civility. Any one acquainted with the neighbourhood
must be aware that some alteration in the present system
was necessary, to afford the district represented at the
mai" that accommodation which ea not supplied tinder
the existing arrangements with reference to the loop hoe.
If the South Western would al liberally in giving the
district the accommodation required they would bad it
ultimately result in such an increase of the traffic ea
would amply remunerate them. Amongst SOON of the
many imperfections concocted with the existing arrange-
ments wee the slowness of the trains traversing the
distil, the inconvenience of which most have hese felt
by persons who had been compelled to avail themeless
of the loop line ; and the ieequality of the charges be.
tweets Biehmood and London, the Vortices of their locality
in which they were interested. Mr. Cooper moved a rem-
Intim to the affect that, as a preliminary to say other
motion, the meeting should express their satisfaction with
the conduct of the officials of the Booth Western Company.
Dr. Willett seconded the motion, which wee carried nearti-
moody. Mr. Woolf moved the second resolution, camas-
ing the wishes a the meeting
_for an alteratioa in the exiating
armagemente of the South Western Company in reference
to the loop line, sod entered into a very elaborate statistical
account of the arrivals, departures, &c., of the company in
regard to localities on the line, to show that the dwtrict
for the protection of the interests of which the see tog I
had been 000veced had not, according to population
and other greuedi, received that considatatios to which
they were entitled. Mr. W. Tetuan seconded the reeoltrion.
Mr. It. C. Cunniasharei ea a large manufacturer in the
district, bore testimony to the Inadequacy of the railway
aocoMmodatioo, and, while disclaiming any hostility to the
Bourn Western Company, pointed out the seceseity for an
ample sad prompt Literature in the right direction. The
resolution was thee agreed to. Mr. T. H. W. Clamp, chair-
man of the beach of Brantford megistrates, moved That a
committee be appointed to give effect to the wishes of the
meeting ; and, as a means of peometing that object, that •
communication should be made to the South Western C,,m-
pany," which be believed would to =leaded with benefit.
This was also adopted, and some other gentlemen having
dammed the meeting, is was resolved that a fund should
be rabeeribed by the inhabitants of the district to carry out
the views of the meeting, but that individual subeaiptieue
should be limited to Is.

&Tel. SOCLETY FOR fluß PROTECTION or LI7II
vaunt YHA—Mr. Sampson Low, jun., the secretary of this
society, has made his report to the committee, which states
that the fine attended by the escape conductors chow 708 es
the number attended during the year 1864; • return of
moos then common interest, inasmuch as this represents
the fires of more importance, viz., those occurring during
the.hours from eight in the sorting until seven o'clock in
the meriting from September let to May the lat,l and
front Mee until sir in June, July, and Augur. 'l'hie
numbs: does sot include mere alarm' or fires in chimneys ;
and, by comparison with the grand total of day and night
tires, wrest to stow bow thoroughly the fire-roar is is
&marl. Daring the quarter Adios the 31st of
March there were 159 tires attended by the seenty's
men with their escapes, at which they ranted nips
lives. In the quarter ending 30th of September,
194 fires were attended, aad 28 lives were saved by
the conductors of the Royal Society. In the quarter ending
Dermber 31, 160 fires were attended, and 11 lives saved,
meshing • total, duriaullts year 1864, of 798 fires attended
and bi lives rood. This is ezelniere of Inen7 rem og
material assistance ordered to perms in haws on fire,
brought or assisted does the staircases. or taken from the
adj.:italic' houses ; bat the return includes only those
brought down by the fire-rapes, or rescued by she intre-
pidity of the men. The records of the year give some very
torrents escapes, sad some very courageous deeds on the
part of their men ; on. great fact remaining apparent to
everyone, that, by the praiseworthy operations of tide volun-
tarily nipported merry, fatal Ins en vapidly dimieialting,
sod but for the numerose ease, of perrial Adder arising
trent erioulnes. the lase of life from Ore would be cos-
parathiffyifittht. Tise society's present number of escape
stations is 85, sad ils brigade, %eluding five iespostors,
warn 100 state& the whole soder ens ouotrol, and sop.
ceded Wily ivy noimolory esolsibmtiese.