The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-15 00:00:00

ALARMING RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT
MERTHYR TYDFIL.

On Saturday morning last a serious accident m-
ooned at the Taff Vale Railway Station, Merthyr Tydfil,
bat as yet unattended with fatal results. This station is
the terminus in the town of the Taff Vale system, and
forms a loop line for the West Midland through trains.
The structure itself is one of the most ill-contrived in
Booth Wales, and on entering would remind one very
forcibly of the mouth of a large oven. The arrival
sad departure of passengers is by one platform, and as
the trains usually run to the end of this, they
very close to a warehouse which is built
rwsanch the permanent way, which is thus abruptly
terminated without buffer stops, considered in moat ter-
mini indispensable. The West Midland train, which
leave' Worcester at 6.35 a.m., is due in Merthyr at
11.15 p.m., and generally comes in at a smart pace, which
is favoured by a slight incline from the last station,
Twedyrhiw. On Saturday, however, it came up to and
prod the signals to the station, and before sufficient
power could be applied to the breaks the engine nn with
tarrific force to the very end of the metals, and came
into violent collision with the wall of the warehouse.
The shock was so great that the wall was shattered, and
abeam in the building displaced, while the whole of the
carriages rebounded so heavily that the buffers on most
al them were completely smashed. Of the passengers
eme were more or less injured, while everyone In the
Min was severely shaken. Dr. Miles was sent for, and
was fart upon the scene of the accident, being followed
by bra Davies, James, and Prober!. The follow-
were
among the casualties :—Mrs. Roberts, a widow
, of Blackwood, received a scalp wound seven
in length, the frontal bone being so denuded that
the skin fell over both eyes. A child was cut on the
Maple. Mr. Evan Davies, of Hengoed, relieving officer,
listened injuries of an internal character near the
kft kidney, and was removed to the union workhouse,
when be was left in a fainting state. Mr. Bayliss,
of Pontnewydd, near Pontypool, sustained a bad con-
tusion on the right eye, and many others were
badly shaken or injured about the legs. Mr. Thomas,
eiDechwen, had a narrow escape. Two men were thrown
with inch violence against the back of the seat upon which
be was sitting that it broke into fragments while he was un-
injured. Mr. Perrott, of Hengoed, had his arm hurt. The
nation-master was away at the time, but came down by a
special train on being telegraphed for, and proceeded to
lavestigatt the circumstances of the occurrence. The train
was enabled, after a short time, to perform its return
rummy.

THE FATAL FIGHT AT THE WEST END.—Through
the unremitting exertions of Mr. Inspector Silverton of the
C division, and Sergeant }lambling of the F division, who
have had the cue in hand, the referee and seconds in the
fight between Edward Wilmot and John Young, at Shaw's
public-house, Queen's Head Court, Windmill•street and
in which Wilmot was killed, have been discovered. From
the outset every difficulty has been thrown in the
1117, but important evidence will now be forth-
coming at the adjourned inquest. Those who took
an active part will, it is understood. surrender them-
selves in the course of the day, the parties being Flynn,
who was referee, a well known teacher of boxing, and who
also keeps a public house, Ned Donnelly, the pugilist, a
staa known as Mitts, who seconded Wilmot, the deceased,
and two men named Morris and Dawes, the seconds of
Young, who is now in custody. It has further been as-
certained that one of the witnesses at the inquest was one
of the most violent in urging the deceased to go on fighting
last prior to the fall which, as at present assumed, caused

DARING BURGLARY IN CHANCERY-LANE.—Thisr
morning another daring robbery took place in the
?noting ink establishment of Messrs. Digby and Co.,
Brand's-inn, Chaneary-lane. The property taken con-
sisted of the beet dmmiption of colostral and other inks,
the whole of which was conveyed away in a track found a
short distance from the premises. The police have emu
lerticnlar respecting the suspected party.
SEWAGE or Towss.—A congress and conference
on the subject of the sewage of towns, with a view of ar-
riving at a satisfactory solution of the question, will be
held in the Royal Pump Room, Leamington, on the 25th
end 26th inst., under the presidency of Lord Leigh, and
ihe vice-presidents are the Earl of Warwick, the Earl of
Ajleeford_ , Lord Willoughby de Broke, Lord Charles Bettie
Peed„ , Eev. Lord Charles Panlet, Mr. G. W. J. Renton,
Sir Charles liordaunt, M.P., Mr. H. C. Wise, M.P.,
red Mr. Arthur Wellesley Peel, M.P. Mr. Hitchnun
XR.C.S., the Arboretum, Leamington, is secretary.—
a‘vekialham Gazette.
No SURRINDER.—A " accusation story" appears
Nibs Mobile Times. It is stated that in removing some
extensive breutworks near the gaol, on the 19th tilt., the
workmen came upon a cave in which were found six veteran
Confederates, who had taken ref ur there at the capture
of Mobile rather than surrender. 'The cave had an outlet
'moat some thick bushee at the side of an old moat, and
some p r sow living in the neighbourhood are supposed to
icow how the six men have antedated.