The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-17 00:00:00

THE ACCIDENT ON THE CORNWALL

RAILWAYS.

TO THE SDITOS or THS SICIPBE.49.

SIEL,—•-OU reading the Daily Neir of the 12th,
sent me from town, 1 saw with coronet an account of the
accident to the train in which I, with my itiughter sod a
young lady friend, were travelling hither, And which did
not appear in the local paper. My scoot/et of the accident
would read time: The train kept its time all the
way from Plymouth (Meting the North mail in it);
when we came to Onimpumedreed station we were the..
to a minute London time ; after we left there, we kept
on at what rut certain was a rattling pace, and
only a few moments before the accident happened, and in
sight of Truro, I sold to my friend, " We are in before our
time." Instead of stopping to collect the tickets, we went
over the viaduct at eliout twenty miles an hour. I heard a
man almost at the Moment of collision call to the guard
who was in the next carriage (or rather compartment I
should say) to put on the bromic. As a matter of mune it
was too late; my friend was completely stunned, and received
a tremendous blow on the back of her head, myself ditto, but
my little girl happened to be standing on the floor, so the
leather lining saved her, except a slight blow and the fright.
Immediately 1 had collected my scattered aeusee, I jumped
out on the rails on the l'ruro aide, snit got my girl and
friend out, and then enlisted some other. out ; they were
more hurt, cut, and bruised than your pamm,iph states ; but
this I leave. When told it WAS the engine had leaked, end
thus stopped the acti,,n of the break, 1 went back some 50
or 60 feet, and can awe such was not the case,
but a case of reckless driving into a station ; and 1
believe that if the Post.olbee guard, who was is the ear-
riage next the engine, was asked, he would, if he speak
conecientiously,ary the same. If the secretary want' any in-
formation on another irregularity I saw, and which is
fineable wider their bye-law, I will give It him with plea-
sure, and at the same time return him the three little blue
pieces ,4 pasteboard they are so food of marking, cutting,
punching, and collecting, and which I was so ungrateful as
not to give up when ilemaodeilof.—Yours, he.,
Patience, Cornwall, Sept. 14. JOHN NUNN.

FATAL AettilllNT.—An investigation took place
on Friday, before Mr. Wakley, beecieser, at the Lord Wel.
lingten, Wswes.street, Tottenham-court-toad, into the cir-
cumstances attending the death of Mr. Joseph Dodd Bur.
nett, aged 37, a timber merchant and mammies government
contactor, doing businese at Tottenham-court-read, and re-
siding at Wissl.green, Totteuham. Mr. Thompson, of
Great quebecetreet, Marylebone, stated that on Monday
evening, about OK, he was driving a phaeton under the
Canidemtown bridge of the Blackwell Railway, accompanied
by deceased and another gentleman, and the noise of a Dais
passing at the time frightened the horse, which bolted, and
hawing run some dist:low witness seemed to get the better of
it, whereupon the deeeased in his fright snatched the rei us and
pulled the animal from one side of the mail to the other,
cawing all to be thrown out, inflicting frightful injuries to
deceased, and more or less injury to binned( anal the other
ggaanritlaman, who was unable to attend WI account of it.
was removed to the hospital. By the jury : The
train was whistling on passing the bridge. The house sur-
geon of University Hospital deposed tleit the deosised was
admitted about eight o'clock on the above evening on ac-
count of various serious injuries. It was considered norm-
sary to amputate one leg alaiut one hour stet a half after-
wards, and he expire.' early Ile Wednesday morniog. A
jurymen protested against u train whistling, as in this case,
when so passing a bridge over • nietroisilitan thoroughfare,
and suggested that borne 11104414 should be adopted, which
could he easily done, to deaden the rumbling sound of •
train passing over such a bridge, as numbers of similar sod-
denb had recently occurred. The coroner concurred in the
latter suggestion, and expreseed his willingness to receive
any recommendations to that effect. The jury, however,
sirney returned • verdict of " Accidental death."
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