The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-27 00:00:00

ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN

RAILWAY.

Dr. Waddington, of Wakefield, gives the follow-
ingaccount of an occident which occurred on Sunday to the
8 o'clock a.ni. train from Wakefield on the Great
Northern Railway, near Doncaster, by which he was a pas.
senger As the train approached Downier, about 9
o'clock, the pawieugerti were suddenly alarmed by the whir
merit uscillation of the carriages. In a few seconds the engine
bad run off the line, dragging the greater part of the train
with it scrum the opposite line of mils. By this time the
concussion Mot become so vehement that the grappling
chains connecting the engine, tender, and first carnage with
the rest of the train providentially snapped. The circum.
stance saved the lives of many. But the engine, tender, and
first carriage were hurled over the embankment, all three
being together overturned, and the latter (a second-class
one) nearly crushed. The stoker was severely injured on
the head, and his recovery is more than doubtful ; the
engine-driver contrived to leap elf in time to save himself
with a few bruises. The shrieks of the passengers in the
overturned carriage (three women and five men) were
fearful ; and for some time their extrication was
impossible. One middle-aged woman had her thigh broken,
another her arm fractured. An old man bad one, if
not two, of his ribs broken. The passenger in the
other carriages, in one of which I was travelling, were leis
seriously injured, though sufficiently so to talk about cons.
pensation, instead of assisting in earnest those with broken
limbs. The hue of rails wen torn up for a considerable die.
Canoe. Owing to the telegraph being out of gear, some
delay in communicating with Donowter was experienced.
A surgeon and various hands at length arrived with a spe-
cial train for the injured piewengers, who, after long delay,
were removed to llnneaster. 1, of course, as a medical
man, rendered what assistance I could. Those worst injured
were conveyed to the Railway Anna, the recovery of more
than one bea'ng doubted by myself. At length a fresh train
started from lkuaaster, and we reached London nearly two
hours after due. The accident was mused by the tire of
one of the right wheels of the engine having flown off ; and
it is clear that the engine was not in a condition to ply be.
tween the stations of the threat Northern Railway."

THE ACCIDENT ON TEE EASTERN COUNTIES
Itutwsr.—Yeaterdav morning Mr. Humphreys reswned
the inquiry at the Air Johu Cats Tavern, Victoria-park.
read, South Hackney, into the death of Dr. George
Alexander Falconer, whose death resulted from the lament,.
able accident which tunic place at the Tottenham-station of
the Fasten l'ounties Hallway on the morning of the 20th
ult. Mr. Serjeant Ibillantine and Mr. Tarry (from Messes.
Crowder, Mayuant, and Co.) represented the company;
and Mr. Rawlinson, solicitor, attended on behalf of the
family of the deceased. George Harbr,s,k, the guard of the
train, Philip Bolster, the shednian at l'ambridlge and Mr.
Robert Sinclair, the engineer of the company, were ex.
&mined, the first two as to the inspection made by the
driver of the engine when lie took it iu in the Saturday
night, and Mr. Sinclair with tvgenl to the cause of the
accident, which he believed was simply a repetition of that
given at Tottenham. The learned ormater then summed up,
and the court was cleared. After the lapse of nearly an
hour the foreman announced that they could nut come to a
decision, tut wished for an adjournment fur the production
of the tire and trailing wheels, and some witnesses from
Cambridge. The proceediuga were adjourned aocordingly.
MELANCHOLY CANE OF LOVE AND SUICIDE.-...
Yesterday evening Mr. Wakley, the coroner, held an in-
quest at the Coopene Arms, Hainpilensdreet, Somers-town,
on view of the body of Mr. Charlie William Warner, aged
21, manager of a iinmery establishment, 22, Chapel-street,
who committed suicide by shooting himself through the
heart with a pistol on lasi Friday eight, which, according
to the evidence, took place tinter the subjoined distressing
circumstances :--Deceitimil was a member of the South
Middlesex Hide Volunteers, soil a very sober young man,
with fine pr,wpecte, his uncle who owned the business
under his management liming held out a promise to pre-
sent him with it at RU early day. On last Friday even.
fag, shortly after 6 o'clock, he left the house attired in
his uniform, and about 10 the :mum night he returned,
entered the house hurriedly and in a state of high excite-
ment, and proceeded direct to his bedroom. Immediately
afterwards a servant girl, the only person in the honer
at the time, wax alarmist at the report of firearms, and
on proceeding to her master.* bedroom she discovered hint
I on the dime, hishew covered with blood, and the
pistol lying near him. Mr. Watts, uncle of the
hapless young man, and medical assistance, were promptly
sent for, when life was found to be extinct. In his
trousers pocket were foulst two scrape of paper, in the
handwriting of the deceased, on which the following
was written :—" Dear Stephen,—When you open this I
shall be dead. I want you to break it to Amelia and
Henry as gently as you can, and tell them not to grieve
for rue, for lam —" On the second swum were these
words :—" Dear Heury,--lly the time you receive this I
shall be no 11111113 ; 110 not grieve for my sake, for it is for
the best." It tnoispireil in evidence that the deceased had
been recently troubled in mind, from being disappointed in
love • and, in cousequelice, IA short time ago, he ignited some
charcoal in his beiln.im for the mupose of committing
suicide, but it only hail the effect id slightly stupefying him.
Deceased afterwards said lie it under a state of excite-
ment, from being 111014.11 in love. Subsequently, he wag
often seen noising and sitting alone in his pfirlour looking
for a long tinie with u vacant stare on some imaginary ob.
ject, and then starting up in it frenzy of excitement. The
jury, after conic division opinion, finally found a verdict
of "Tokupwary insanity."
SUPPOSED MURDER, AT STAIITORD.—A few days
ago weileserilwil the deathly bunduaid a woman living alone
at St. Martin's, Stamford. At the inquest held at the time
it was decided that her death was accidental, hut frost iir-
enutidances which have since mime to the knowledge of the
police it is atuipected that the deceased swan murdered by
strangling, arch application los lweit node to the Secretary
of State for permission to exhume the body. This request
has been acceded to, lint the insult is not yet made known. A.
man named Henry Corby Its ;men arrestod on suspicion, and
it is understood that mono jewelleryantl plate which belonged
to the deceased have since her death been seen iu the
sine of the prisoner, and that he ha. lately been eiealmg
with a considendilc sum of looney, whereas, last week, he
wu known to he in stmitened cirettnustanona The
sonar etawlc remanded until Thursday next. Stains of
blood lave been diseovered on the hearthstone in the
kitchen where the lulv of the deer awed was found, and it is
understood that ,other facts have mow to light which seem
to indicate that the unfortunate lady came to a violent death.
A Ilimun.s PoPOTION. —Yeaterday afternoon
week, about twenty minutes past four o'clock, while George
Harman, a mariner, was in a bloat culled the Little Weeder,
hauling in his nets, he heard a scream which prucceded
from the jetty. He dire tly rowed to the spot, where he
raw a young laity ill the water clinging to tin: of the pile,
on the east side 441 the Margate jetty. She immediately
let go of the pile, and, after drifting about Mt yroda, be
succeeded in getting liar illto his hunt. If he heti not been
there, in all probability she would have been drowned, as
it was nearly low water, owl them was no other boatman
within a quarter of a mile from the pier; and then they
would have had to launch a loot from the beech, which
would have occupied ten JJJ iii utes. There were only two
persons on the jetty at the time, whose attention was air
sorbed in witnessing the Ilepirture of the Itatiogate ride
cape. The girl is the groullauhter of Mr. limy, of
Cresoutplace, Margate. She is f 4 years of age, and it
supposed that she walked over (non the lauding at the
jetty-head. Had tee Human heard the scream and imams.
diately rowed to her rescue, she mint inevitubly have been
drowned.—Kentish flu:elle.
THE DEPARTED A NOILL—I RIO IP 01111.1 to say that
female alitokod her pokkit ikon. tilienigwaltsl to llecilist's picture
&great deal too mach during the comm• of breakfast. She
hinted, she sighed, she wa-gled her head at me, and spoke
about " that angel" in the movt tr.,* manner. Angel is
all very well : hut your angel brought in rt foul prop 4;
your departed blessing vaned out of her grave ever
so many times a day; when 1.711111111114M11111 wants to
carry a point tit lierown ; when the childnu are naughty or
noisy when papa helm.), a dickering inclination to dine at
his club, or to bring hones a 11144.114.111 r friend or two to
Shrublande -I say your angel ttlwaya ilrazied in by the
wings into the conversidien loses her effect. No MD'S
heart put ore wider crape than Isivere at Cecilia's
CUllakWiug the circumstances, his grief was most creditable
to him : but at Imekfast, at tuna, abut Sulkeley tee
footman, about the tonawhe or the phaeton, or any trum-
pery domestic perplexitv, to Nita. a Dom Woad was I‘.o
much. Noyaiiae, for April.

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