The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-01 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1856.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE
RAILWAY.

A lamentable amident, remilting in miens Wary
to several passim, ormiral on Monday evening, as the
Greaswieb breath of the North Rest Railway, origin from
sane defeat la the self-eating points jest outside the
Oresserich Maim The trolls betweat Lathes end
Gresevith is malleed to a doable Has el rain after pre.
kg the Gamey Camel sad North Rent Jimmies. For
greater &Ginty of world's, the Isaias to Greenwith ran
elterastely late the op sad dew■ platforms, the depar-
tures from Gresawiek beim wronged is a like mesa,
semetines from the sp lies of Fells, sad somotiniss frees the
dews line. When the hem is tie eme the train oresses
es to tke up lhu ever self-.sting points, width' 80 sr N
yore et Greenwich Maths. The 8.311 p.a. sada Rem
Leedom es Timidity night ran es and lath the
Oneawish dews platform, and started on t►e re-
tars leensey fee Leaden et 9.1 pm. Is the
smithery melee the tele should have noosed on to the

Lae by dio entseling potato above referred to, but
aebbi to mew emapemen &het Jr diess petals not rill
Nearly meertained the ken, instead of Grossing is to the
sp Ilse, °outland its warn up the down line, and ea
arriving within 150 yards of the Deptford station cute late
violent collides with the 8.60 p.m. dews train from London,
then nun. from Deptford tato Cirroawlels. Happily
Dekker of the trans wee at fall speed, or the coaesquaraa
must have bees awful, niaaiag as they were snag a 'la-
den NM fire and twisty het above Os ordinary level of
the woad, without say greater protection Una a dwuf
brisk wall an either side. Thu driver of the up trala—who,
'neap to say, was not aware that he woe naming up the
newel line—was at the seance of the collision paWag
up to mop at the Deptford Station, while the down
trek had started from Deptford so reesatly that the
distaste M bad presesde&-one hatched and iffy yarde—
ked net allured the &her Mpt up his fall speed. To this
deonmetsam the present freedom from fatal easselty Is
prebehly to be attributed; bet, unfortunately, as it wee, the
massonsoese were rafiltdontly dimness. The fans of the
oessumint was so gnat that several fannies wen shat-
tered, mad elated all the pamenpre severely shako. or
otherwise hurt. The driven and stokers of both enema
are men or Ins severely fainted, sad several proesgere
have rewind fraoturss sad costualess eta serious elturaidat.
It k a naterkable fast that the menu sad mecum of both
trans kept the ins ; had either of them toppled over lido
the road below, the meet terrible eciasequares must have
awed. Aston as the guar& of both trains had renvered
tram the shook of the edition. mad adopted lamas for the
prevention of farther masa; they seat to Oreenwish sad
Deptford for areistamies, sad at cute set about az-
Cleating the injured pumas. The driver of the
up train, William Watson, was sot seriously
having 'seeped with seven coalmieas oa the right arm
sad sea flesh monads about the km His stoker, a rasa
tamed Castles, we. so nailed at the moment of the
milldam, that he jumped akar over the parapet, a depth
of 25 feet, into the street below, sustaining bad Werke ea
the pelvis, and being otherwise so suet hart as to wise-
elute his Immediate removal to the hospital. James
Ward, driver of the dews train, was terribly maimed,
hung eastalard a enspoitad fragile of the lower jaw,
sad a severe scalp wound, is sdditlos to which his acne
is split. Jabal Barker Wstoker, Is suffering from con-
omens of the tons salccatasisas ea the heed. Both them
men are also in St. Thome' ReepitaL
It has bees stated that almost all the pammagen is both
trans suffered host the *heck. Happily ;the menus oasis
an net se aamoncia ea might have beat aationated. Mr.
Bhorall„ muster of the South Rasters Railway, hap.
posed to ho at his 11.00 at Lealoashridge wham the maddest
maned. He was abort to return to his residease at
Blackheath, when he was lafermad that the 'wire& from
Greenwich, due at 9.20 p.m., was already half sa hoar be-
hind Its time. Autkipatiag emu casualty from so maul
a einumstaace, Mr. liberall immediately proceeded dews
the Use, mad arrived at the "seas of the anneal la 'ga-
sket time to direct the removal :of all *bees prams who
bad bees seriously bust at oars by a special eagles mad
earflaps to Loader'.
Institutes was also &spanked to St. Thomas. Hospital
requatiag that every preparatios might be made to nuns
a samba of patient"; sad whoa the estrum arrived, Mr.
Baew, sealer Burgeon, moompealed by a fall staff of the
medical °Semis, wee la walks, to attend spot them. •
number of the mane who wore only slightly shaken sad
bruised, reesived nth reetentive attentles as their mesa
dennalird, sad departed, while :those suffering hoes more
serious essulties were named at ones to the widest
ward, when the following, Is addition to the navvy
amino above soled, still roman :
Kr. George Daphne'', masker, et New York, tiomposad
fraetase date left leg.
Mr. Robert Summon, lightens's, of Cottage-row, Bor.
ratedesy, severe wesad is skull over the right orbit, mu-
pasta fracture of the awl and frosts' Weft.
nary Sup. of 15, Biltaaala-street, Orsrriaa-road,
coats** at the beak of meek.

Tbothes Betts.. desk Mouth, of 22, New4treet, Bishops-
gate, wearies of asst.
Kr. Dustbin& is as Anodes& dames eat was ea the
point of media( free ballad by the Persia He is pre-
gnosis' favourably, lad beteg a young thea,will, it io loped,
seas be able to mayor removal.
Mr. essuthar ease I nom doubtful, his ege enmesh-
Log ID. . . . .

Meld's, of the other eases is the hospital are suppossii to
be mine, eamptias perhaps those of Ward, the miss
driver, sad Croke, the maser.
Is additka to those removed to the hospital, essaaltios
marred to Mrs. Edward Roberts, of Blaekboath ; Mrs.
Elisabeth Prim, of Bridge-street, Ormswidi ; sad Mr.
William Lloyd, of Greenwich. All them mem removed to
thole owl bonus.

When so large ea moist of psesonal injury has hem
'attained, the quietism mut be asked, " How could sea►
an eosideat lam been allowed to .sear t" The pciaelpie of
"self acting" points Ilea always bee. unsidered worthy
adoption under all practicable stranassteasee, tke argument
beteg that palate of this klad are not dependut upon the
wateutainty of basalt atteatios, acting as they de regularly
like a plus of maakialey. It must sot, however, be np•
pitied that eves these " pasta " an left ..tended. At
Onenwish station there is a peiateman, William Wheeler,
whoee 'pedal duty it was to visit this erasing sad impost
the palate every half-boar, sad a usual supervision le oleo
szeraleed by the statics master. The misfortune Ism, so
far se ism be ascertained from the ezembration made by Kr.
°bora° after the accident, la that some demureness or
freature malt have taken place albs ths last down Irate
pseud ova the caroming which escaped detection by the
pointsaisa. A. Ina "all " was bread to be miming, bat
beyoad this the potato did sot appear to have eastaMed any
Wary.

The most remarkable oircuastanos is that the driver of
the up train should not have discovered he wan upon the
wrong line before the collides occurred, the train baying
tun nearly a mile when the accident happened.
It is worthy of remark, sad mut be so far @oilers':4er, to
the pablis u well uto the directors, that the present is
the tint accident of anything like a serious oltuacter that
has taken place on the Greenwich Railway Once the lime
was opened, now about 20 years ago.

TON ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTE-
WIRTZ= RAILWAT.—ne autonomic. ass Theism
Pike, stoker of the goods train to which the arias sadist
oesurrod is Wednesday afternoon, a few miles sulk of
Woken's, lingered ea in a hopeless state until Thursday
evenlng, when be noised, at the tars-bow to whisk he
Led been removed, from the offsets of the severe Injuries Ito
kad sustained. An isquest wee opened yel.rdsy afierosen
at b seeleek by the distriet intoner sad a jury, swore to le-
-1 eestigate the ears of death. Mr. ld'Coonell was is Wee.
dame, with ether ellen, of the railway spay, but It
was act eepseted the lousily would be suried ea berme
es Amarillo:odes of the body, it ban geserally %Mimeo&
that in awe of se great palate 'mortises the peseeediap
wield be *jeered Is a Meta day.