The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-09 00:00:00

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH
It RAILWAY.

INQUEST.
trvecleileil frost yeeterday'llrtes./
Afte- Im interval for refreshnout, the cov..ner called
listtle..w Matthew. On iiooday week I Was the :Plaid
of the x. 11l bate from Waterloo, which I .started.
I lire, the mote e e
I .• • driver. Elijah Cook, and Robinson, the
it.,.. had tto atop till we got to I ; uildford.
It eon. 4,41 of tea ,arriages. All was quite right till alter
we big s.t to Wimbledon Fttation. The usual "all right "
Moil s .1.• up. We were plug at the rate of 25 or ?ti
per hour. .tfter we had got past the stalest, I waived
th.st Prat as we passed the points at the *mhos, a carriage
before us premed to jump. that is to rise and then turn. I
bone.dastely put es the brake, and was holding on as Ill!ht
so I t"tllt to the beadle, and the nest thing I jowl wa I
wan Pia; on the aide and roof of the van, which wrut nit to
th.. left hand of the rails. down the embankment. I got
op as soon as I was able, awl ran back on the up liar 4.
shoe n light, which the pointsmas pee me. I put glow.,
the, a detonating Moats, and waved a red light to stop any
train that might he CtMliag lowa I heard thr train com-
ing. which I stopped. I told the guard to go 4urk to Wimble
don avid say what lied happemil, and I thou returned to the
Pau where the accident hail been. I found tee a onsets
es the rails of the dowu line. There were 'our down the
embankment, soil oat ou its side us th,- railway. and I saw
the deceased takt ham underneath that carriage. I
think it win the e iniage next to the tender, and the nee
seat to that which I sew jump. The train had just
passed the signals, but only a little war. It is
Part of toy duty to look at the %.liati tight&
I noticed the sigmas were all right --the jut:eta/I, as well as
the distance or auxiliary signals. I ate quite sore the Aki-
ta, lights were burning. As we were towing the jtuietiou I
did not we anything to came tee to put co the Make .ntd
I aaw the carriage pimping.
Hy a umr Von have mid roar average speed in pa .tog
Wimbledon t, alinut 27, miles an hour. Now, as the trails
bill. show you must travel nearly 441 miles an hour all the
way, you n. nit go at the rate of Si part .4 the way to toake
it up Who do von go only ri toile,. et Wimbledou, which
Is ormsidereil a good part al the line!
Witness I savant say.
By the roomer— It wan so Woe at all - just like the flash
of a {,vu--..'ter I Al rr the carriage jump, before I was over
way :elf n the vivo. I bad toy hand- on the 'lrak,. Isom
Illatt^noriebank. which is about four miles from where the
semileet happened. It is mut of my duty to see the roupluie•
Maim and carriage. are all right, and they were so ou this
wission.

Ily tlr. Hireharn— I did not feel any shock, one anything
wrong until I saw the cirris4e jump, and then it all took
n• I have perviously described it. I have been
the habit of 'Rehm to that train a. guanl ever store the
Portan.outh Direct ham been optimal. There was nothing
sensual in the speed of the train, or any other ri-gulatious,
W t lemming.
John Robinson—l have been in the service of the Mouth
Ilfmtems Itailasy Company for four years, and ins Moinlay
Week was Aromas to Cook by the train from Loudon to
leaving Waterloo' at 5.10. The ti inter was
attached to the ensiles by thiee conylinge, and it is Cook's
Oise driver's) duty to see to the coupling.. it is my duty to
me the tinnier is properly coupled to the cameges„ amino the
.in ,mestino is was properly done. I noticed the lights
ejunctiou were all alight and all correct. After jos,
j the jointanias at the junction, as we were, to the best
S)judgment, crinsing the Epsom awl Lestherbeal up.
• 'observed a sudden jerk, which might have
• caned by the application of UN guard's beeaa
rartlonly, cr • avrrmgo off the lioe. At the Nuns time I
beard mine half-stootksrsd whistles, which might have
been canoed by lb. coassoookatio• coed with the goiters ran
being palled, or any one of the cm:Magee getting off the hoe.
I looked resod and 'Law two carriages off the line they
were the two meat to the tender. Jost at that moment the
tender jumped id the line, sad as I was about to pot my
hand on the brake the tender broke away from the elegise.
1 held ow by the mato., sod there I stack, I'll means you.
flanstlitcr.) We ram on to Maiden, mid tbon?.. to Kingdom,
for assiataace. Before we 10,1 got 100 yards I get in frost
of the engine awl pot on the danger signals. The up-traio
Mopped at Illables in coose•tuenee of my danger lights. 1
am unable in soy way to account for the twu carriage's
setts off the hue as I have deseribed.
By Yolked —We were running at oar usual
speed. which is about 24 or 2•3 miles an lour in maim'
junction I was @leading on the plate of the engioe, and
Ido not Shish the tender could have jumped without my
alluerring it.
Hy the l'oreser —The driver whistled as soon as possible
after the accideat, hot 1 do sot thick there was anything
mid either by MD Of Um driver. I looked tonal, and Atli
certain the masisem were off the line lest.
Hy a Jansr—Thecamla w, that wore off the hoe went
set detacbakfilma the leader wheal ant saw them.

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$i Volned Yolked—Have you any faxtruetaono in your
lusnk of Min M sognisto the flatting ,11 the slesw
Wilma—Von

Th. Cumeirtites remarked that they bad lees pitting
userly eiglha beam mid as the eaamiaatimi d the seat wa,
sem weld prehaldy hi protracted, he sedeeeedi the el
Jet of the impuy tall Tmeduy seat.
71n pry acquiesced, and the pigswill*. ihis tenmaatcd.

LONDON AND DOUTN•WIATAJRN JIAILW.IY.

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The report ol _ 11111110S/NRog this company shows
the net remise for the bell-year eading December :11.
Ilan. after deducting anterest ea leans, sad all ether pre.
!remittal charges, to he 1147,6164 Ils. 3d. ; to which publ
the sesplus at June. Ib6o. 3,007/. he. Ild. ; leasring blame,
available be dividend. 190,792 f. ITe Id. From the above
sem the direeton reememead that a dividewl be declared at
the rate of U. Is. parent per annum, payable no the :91th
day of February, amerialieg ea 7,199,6502. of capital paid
up to Ineerette I. 4d. ; lathier to be carried over to the
surreal half-year, Mlle 17s. .id. The increase in the erase
termer for the half-year over the corresponding peeled in
1659 is c.,7:171.. which Las bees earord overau.o,rcs.,eallu.tlll•
bee of 501 miles epeaed for Mat& in leen. sa..h a moult.
eassideneg the very exceptionl eineunstaocea in the pa:t-
ine of the esesessay during the pa 4 half-yew, may fairly
be d satldoetery. The green Stolle has increased bir
the sun of 45.757(.. hut it must be remembered that this
bea been wily earned eyes an additional elicit of :al
aides of the sew Extension line, which was opened for
Meek in July hat, the working expense" of which have
been in mums of the urinal average. The season also bas
both most unfavourable, both for the promotion of the
talkie sod fee the maintenance of the permanent way and
works. Among the charge. ..041st the compthy, the into.
rest on the larger portion of the coat of constructing
the Exeter Extremism Line and Works has now for the
int time been brought forward as a charge against revenue.
la =maws of the authority girth by the proprietors,
664,0044. of the perpetual 44 per cent. preference stock, and
3441,94e1. of the perpetual 4 per cent. debenture stuck, have
been iasued to the 3lst December last. The rolling stock
las been kept is good 'audition during the Peet year. The
locomotive department comperes favourably with the cor-
rupt:mho' period in IKift, looking to the extra number of
miler run ; sad it will be aatidactory to the proprietors to
see that the whole charges in this department ary =tile
sealant revenue, the only ameuuts charged under that head
to capital being Giv. 13s. for four pumping engines at
varioue stations. In the carrier department the compari-
son is dill more ferousable, the whole amount of the
*spasms incurred for repairs, he., being 7.1:11. 100
'LSD iu the corresponding period of 15419. 11,2301.
have been paid to Messrs. Wright and to
Messrs. Brown, Marshall and Co., for additional
oritge and waggon stock for the new lines and the
amount, as will be been from the accounts, ha, been charged
to capital. The permanent way has been inaintained in
grad working order. although at the considerable increased
*spew,. of upward. of 14,00111. This has been principally
reused by the extremely severe season and continued wet
weather. Upwards of NOISY. of the amount has been ex-
peoded in repairing sonic very heavy slip. in the clay dis-
tricts. Twenty .three edditionil miles of the main bee. have
Leen relaid and tide jointed during the pot year. and a suns
of ..;3,1041. 19.. has been carried to the debit of the perma-
nent way =premolars% account. In accordance with the
resolution of the proprietors, 10,0000. hoe scale bees
charted from thin arietem4 spinet reweave.

NOSTM Estrem RAILWAY. —The fourteenth
balflearly lesitlei gristle. of the shareholdsrs in this con,
pry was held yeelenlly in the De Grey Dooms, York.
Mr. H. 11. Three M.P..the chairman of the sompany,
presided. The -dation moved the adoption of the report,
which we have ekee4 published, which wax seconded by
the Lord Mayor of Tab and after a few questions bad
been a•ked, and answered' b the chairman, the was
agreed to. The chairman, 'Mr. Pullets, Mr. Wrrltearit.ou,
and Mr. Cash, the reties, directors by rotation, were re.
elected unanimously ; and Mr. Bywater, one of the rstiriug
auditors. was alto re.appoiated. A resolution was adopted
unanimously, declaring a dividend of 51 per cent.
no the Berwick stock, of 4 per mot. on the
Ttirsk and Halton stock, of 5 per vent. on the
York stock, and :I per cent. on the Leeds stock, such
dividends to be paid on and after the lsth instant. The
chairman made a few remarks in reference to the desiia.
hl-nees of coos/rutting branch railways front Arthington
up the valley of the Wharfs to Otley and Ilkley. Ile
meowed that the directors proceed with the bill introduced
into parliament for powers to coaxtruct these branches.
Mr. Kitson seconded the resolution, and it was adopted
win. dm. The meeting was made special, to empower the
director, to create ems Mock to the extent. if they should
see it, of 1,1521,8100,., end to receive not ezeeriding 4) per
cent. dividend. The chairmito proposed a notion to that
effect, which woe adopted. The meeting concluded with a
Irmo of thanks to the directors.
Mr. A. Bemoan Wine and Spirit Merchant, of
r,rotund,tsar altered Lie prices to eccoedance with the farther
srlactioo of the wise audio. He la now rented mongol P$
."1,4.117 at tad per dons. and a good sound Claz at lea per
been. toilette toeloded --lA.lrertiortoest.)
I Ad terterreeet. 1-11./LLOW•T'S PILLS AND OINT-
-11, std - li•Pi ler limit& -In all coast of M health aro IND-
kb..., &MI tilghlgpriesd reassMes sheald he tried. Gm Aar
ese f allure el ell Sew need ii leeway s Pillsad Ointment
will he Mani hells aide and rigleisni waratives Inv dhsaane
affecting she linnet. eked. Demo memase. boss* sad Maas"
der th. mot avelitoangftim 6.w,sha haw eg.
tomato trigto la Igo Wog, et- -dass. gueptlDe
eireesthes =l6..egibbS_lseißeiss Os Mood; the
*fatalist flittStallibst
klub d g
at thous Babb metenstMes ams The vireos,
dleurdery
• the Mole toll amens iipoltir se epephay, part, for sod di ia.p.7.