The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, bur o'Clock.
We regret to announce the occurrence, list even-
ing, of a dreadful accident on the Chester and Holy-
head Railway. The following communications have
reached UP :
CIIMITED, Mae 24, 730 e.m.—As the 6.16 down train to
Ruaboa was crossing the river here this evening, the bridge
gave way. The engine and tender got over, but all the car-
riages fell into the river. It is low-water ; the loss of life is
not yet ascertained; but it sterna hardly possible that any
can have escaped. The bodies are being taken out as fest as
possible.
CHESTER, MOaDLT EVENINO, QUARTIII-PLST EIGHT.—
An awful calamity has just taken place. The bridge over
the Dee of the Chester and Holyhead Railway has given
way, and all the carriages are preeipiatted into the river, and
every passenger either killed or wounded. Seven are already
dead, and eleven are taken to ihfiratary. I have seen the
spot, and horrified I was. The tide is running in, ■nd the
wot knien will be unable to extricate any more until the ebb.
A later account says, that there were thirty pas-
sengers hooked by the train, besides passengers with
return tickets. The number of killed and wounded
at present cannot be oacertained.

Since the foregoing Will written, the following has
reached us : _

An accident, attended with fatal consequences, occurred
last evening on the Chester and Holyhead Railway, about
miles from the Chester station, by the Lilure of one of the
girders of the bridge amass the River Dee, and which is sup-
posed to have arisen tram a defective casting. The engine
and tender got clear over the bridge; but one of the ear-
lier' in the train wu precipitated into the river, end four
persons are killed and about five or six others more or Ism
injured. The stoker also is killed, having been thrown off
the ermine by the jerk. No official statement has yet been
received at the London office from the engineers further than
reporting the circumstance.

The Paris papers of Sunday contain a variety of
particulars respecting the decease of Mr. O'Connell. •
The Unirers publishes the following from the Rev.
Dr. Miley, Mr. O'Connell's chaplain
GENOA, MAY 17.—Alas, my dear friend, O'Connell is
dead! lamso c smpletely overwhelmed with the blow that
lam almost incapable of writing. Hu death was serene and
happy, for it was sanctified by the sacraments, and alleviated
by the consolations which our divine religion lavishes with so
much mercy on its children. He replied at first in words,
and afterwards wish look and gesture, to the exhortations
which I addressed to him up to the last moment. He ren-
dered up the last sigh, with the calm of an infant
that falls off to sleep, on Saturday, at twenty-five minutes to
ten at night. He requested hie heart—that heart which
always that for the cause of religion and liberty—to be
taken to Rome. We have had that noble heart embalmed,
and have enclosed it in a silver urn. The body, which has
also been embalmed, will remain here in a chapel until our
return from our pilgrimage to Rome with his heart ; and
than be will betespagesigg N bis native mountains, to re-
, ekge. there to_ •
.iimimme.6_,Thos heart of O'Ciew

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