The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-03 00:00:00

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ONAY. THE CAMBRIAN

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A TRAIN THROWN INTO THE SEVERN.
Early on Saturday morning a shocking accident .71-1
happened near Caeraws, a small station on the Cambrian
Railway. After passing Newtown, this railway, making M.
straight for Llenidloes, crosses the devious course of the K
Severn at three points, one bridge being at Seidel, •
second at Omni's, and a third at Pontdolgooh. For some el
days put the floods have been gathering from the hilly 11
country west of this portion of the line (when the Severn al.
takes its rise), and on Friday the river was full to over- K
Sowing, many of the low-lying fields in the vicinity being
under water. This is, however, a circumstance of regular as.
occurrence at this season of the year, and the bridge being
built with • fall knowledge of such a contingency, no et
apprehension of danger was felt by the officials. rt.
About 6 o'clock in the morning the mail train for Shrews- gg,
bury left Welahpool on its journey south. The train con- K
sided of about half • dozen cattle tracks, a couple of lug-
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vans, two passenger carriages, and two guards' raw. K
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morning at which this train runs there were no parerengers gt
in the carriages, the only persons in the train being the Li.
engine-driver, the stoker, a goods guard, a eremite.
guard, and two cattle drovers. When, a few minute@ after K
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7 o'clock, tho train reached Censors, it was still dark and
raining in torrents, with a wind blowing very high. On
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swayed to and fro, and finally fell in with a loud
crash, the engine and tender disappearing beneath Ita
the water. Two cattle troika which led the train fol. 1,1
lowed the tender, and next came a van loaded with a.
flour, but in falling over the rear coupling chain of the Si.
van broke, and the van, stasding for a moment upright on itt
the immersed trucks, proved an obstacle sufficient to stop K
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partly hanging over the brink of the river. et.
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to ascertain the fate of the driver and stoker. At fist le
they could see nothing of them, but as daylight came on el
they were able to distinguish the form of the driver, ap-
parently standing upright in the water, with his heed so
near the top that the current occasionally left portions of
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the face of such a disaster, and, whilst the passenger gt.
guard remained in charge of the mails, the other guard I
volunteered to run back to Moet-lane Junction to telegraph eD:
to Oswestry for assistance. This he did, but it was ten is.
o'clock before an engine arrived on the scene of the seri- 1:0°
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past all human aid, the attention of the officials was rog
directed towards the forwarding of the mails. A convey- as,
and being obtained, the bags were sent round by the high- 12:
way to Pontdolgoch station ; but here another calamity go
made itself known. The break down of the bridge at ac
Caeraws having suggested to the officials of the railway the
possibility of other of the bridges being insecure, the ree
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were accordingly carried further down the line, where
they were met by a special engine and forwarded to their If 4
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destination. To complete the misfortunes of the day it at.
shortly afterwards transpired that the first of the three at,
bridges, Scald, was also gradually being swept away, and at
it became necessary to stop at Safe' all trains proceeding Sat
south, and at Pontdolgoch all trains proceeding north,
thus isolating that portion of the line where the accident of
had occurred, and greatly adding to the difficulty of to
raising the engine, tender, and trucks from the bed of
the river. The accident, resulting as it has done in the
shucking death of the poor men on the engine, is lamentable
enough, but from the state of the bridges it is clear that
one or other of them must have given way on the passage
of a train at some time in the course of Saturday. and if
it had been an ordinary passenger train, on this the
market day of the district, a loss of life would hays
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DISTRESS IN THE EAST-END.

TO THE 11HTUR Or THE EEPRLSIS. ON,
Stn,—The public who have taken so much 1001
interest about the distress in the East-end will, I am sure,
bs glad to know that the iron-workers have shown every 60,0
disposition to meet the offer I was enabled to make them SA
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on Saturday, 2.lth inst. (at the meeting at the Burdett- SOO
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ball), of employing them in building one or two iron ships. Ilka
They have this day accepted the price per ton I offered, rec
and the only difference uvw is in the amount they shall Mt
draw per day. They object to the terms proposed, but itC,
have stated the terms they will accept, and I have 10.1
no doubt, from the general good feeling shown by rill
the men who waited upon me to-day, that they
will give way a little, and that the builders will meet Oki
them, and I have every reason to think that in a few days I SZ
shall be able to state that one or two ships of over 1,000
tons will at cnce be built in London "on terms quite Bata- it
factory to both masters and men," and I hope with this ag,
start and others that may be made by other Individuals
to 'live employment at fair wages that this long-talked of
. . . .

" distress in the E.ist " will be a thing of the past. Ido
not at all consider that the few men who spoke at the
meeting at Burdett-hall on Saturday, 25th inst., expressed
the feeling of the whole body of iron.workers, or of the
great part of them. From the feeling expressed by
the workmen I saw to-day, both union and
non-union men, I quite believe that the men are willing
and anxious to take such wages u will enable the master
shipbuilders in London to take ships to build at market
prices, and I certainly think if the same feeling is ex-
pressed by the men when they meet the masters that we
shall soon have plenty of iron shipbuilding going on in
the Thames. In justice to the men and also to the public
I must take this opportunity of contradicting the
advertisement of the "East London Mission and
Relief Committee in the Times and other
journals to day condemning the resolutions of the

meeting at Burdett-hall as unjust and most in-
jurious to the best interests of the country at large, and
especially of the working claws ; and also further clearly
implying that the iron shipworkers are on strike in
London at the present time. The only resolution passed
at that meeting was the following—" That a committee be
chosen from the working men present at this meeting to
confer with the employers, and report at a future meeting."
This certainly is not unjust and injurious to the beet
interests of the country at large, and especially of the
working classes ; and further, there is no strike whatever

in the iron shipbuilding trade, nor has there been for very
many years. Such statements as these are likely to do much
harm ; they ghe the public a very wrong impression, and
set them most unjustly against the shipwrights and iron
shipbuilden of London.—l am, &e.,

W. M. BELLIVANT.

114, Fenaurch-street, E.C., Jan. 31.

RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS BEFORE PARLIA-
Id ENT.— On Saturday Messrs. Frere and Paigrave, the ex-
aminers of standing order proofs of railway and other pri-
vate bill. deposited in parliament, resumed their duties.
In Mr. Freres court, hold in Committee-room 16, the fol-
lowing unopposed petition' posed standing orders :—The
Merthyr Tydvil Stipendiary Magistrate Ball ; the St. Ba-
viour's, Southwark, Chaplaincy ; the Lancashire Union
Railways and London and North Western Railway Com-
=; the Lewes Waterworks, and the BitTecorTia,
ROOM (No. 1.) The unopposed bill of the and
Kinsale Junction Railway was adjourned until the 17th
inst., and the consideration of the Vale of Towy Railway
Bill was further adjourned until this day (Monday). In
the cue of the opposed Central Cornwall Railway pe-
tition the examiner declared that the stand-
ing orders had not bean complied with. In the
court presided over by Mr. Paigrave, in Committee.
room 17, the standing orders were declared not to have
been complied with in the cases of the opposed postponed
Petitions of the Maryport District and Harbour and the
blaryport Improvement andHarbour. TM:apposed
petition of the Isle of Wight (Newport Junctionrßailway
was again adjourned until this day (Monday). The stand-
ing orders were declared to have been complied with in
the folio cases of unopposedpetltions :—Tbe Devon
and Cornwall Railway, the Teign Valley Railway, St.
Mary Church Lug Board, Atheary and Buds inaction
Railway, the Waterford and Lisassiek Railway, sad the
Radian and Wdebridge Railway Bills. The sundae:
further adjourned until this day (Monday) the emaidelara-
don of the Ids of Wight Central Railway and the Bbt.wy
Railway opposed petitions.

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