The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-21 00:00:00

SERIOUS 24ILEAr COLLISIONS.

(FLOM 00A oomazaroppiorr.)

MORBTON, Br,evina2.
A frightful collision took plat* on the Orford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway heat night between
two messenger trainee, whereby a number of persona have
been seriously injured. The aevidatt happened aa follows'
Irt evening the down express from Eustorosquare,
whir& rune in connexion with the Caked, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton Railway, reached Bletchley Junction in due
Rene, and the train thence to Worcester and Woleerhampton
reached Ilendt.rough on the Orford line at 7.20. It them
started for Moreton mike distant), and had got within
mile of Charlbory when the engine broke down and the train
came to a stand-mill. An ordinary down train leaves Hand-
borough 5 minutes after the departure of the exprem train,
end while the express was standing on the down rails the
ordinary train came up at full speed and dialled into it with
terrible violence.
'fhe guard of the expellee (Cliff) had gone bark with •
light to stop the ordinary train as soon es the express time
to a atom but whether the driver of the ordinary tram sew
his signal, or whether the distance wee too short for him to
stop his train, will Meet° be investigated hereafter. It does
art appear that Cliff laid down any fog Ogee* or these
might have stopped the ordinary train had the driver let
rim C if. lamp. Among the injured perm= Imo the

fellererlng
Mr. Corbett, manager of the Iltitieh Alkali Works, Stoke
Prier_, W.
Demegrem, broken kg and other severe injuries,
Mr. W. Dams, wise tuarelunt, Woe:teeter, injured Imes and
Wilma; Mr. Itedgrave, glover, wound on the head; • lady
ikon Malvern, name unknown, badly hurt; • comenardel
haefully cut Mar, and moo teeth km; Min Darks,
Worcester, cut head and bruises; Mr. Scott, draper, Wor-
mier, much shaken, not viciously hurt ; Mr. A. Wells, hop
merchant, Wormater, also ellgtitly braked.
Other parties were more or leis injured. One
Pa
Mr. koott,analtorney, of Dromegveve, heard the trainTtrr
ng.
and jumped through the window, narrowly ramping • fall ,
into • small river which ran close to the spot where the
eel-
hobos: took plies.
The luggage van sad three of the express tentage* were
smashed. A telegraphic dispatch waa sent to Wesemaer,
and as speedily as could be the paseengvre were attesded to
by surgeons from Chsrlbury.
The train reached Worcester at about bell-pact I &dock
this morning, and two surgeons, kleesre. Carden and
Everitt, accompanied Mr. Corbett to his residence at Stoke
Prior.
An Inquiry into the muse of the accident is loudly called
for by the fnende of the injured parties.

COLLISION AT DUDLEY" TORT, STAFFORD-
SHIRE.

An occident of • very serious nature, but fortu-
nately unattended by loss of life, took plan, nn Saturday last
at the South Staffordshire and Slour Volley Junction,
Dudley Port. The train which left ilinniogium A II o'clock
a.m. arrived at Dudley Port at ti minutes after thnt hour,
Its usual period, and was promptly started on ite mane to
Dudley. When about 100 yards from the station it was met
hy a South Staffordshire coal train, which was coming up to
be shunted at the moment. The malt was a serious can-
al.. The engine and tender of the coal train were knocked
off the line, and about twenty persons in the pamencer train
were more or leas injured. The sufferers were promptly
handed our, and the station-master having telegraphed to
Dudley. medical maintance was obtained from that town.
The following are the names of the Femora who received
surgical attendance,—Benjamin Taylor, Birmingham (hurt
is the fare); Maria Ore's, Alfred Adleton, Frederick
Hawker, Frederick P 0111.14 Miss Written., Isaac Perrino,
Mr. B. Griffiths, all of Birmingham; Jai* Farmer, Sum-
put; Elizabeth Brows, Resod Iftk ; an old woman, dan-
gerously 'spited; Mr. Join Gibson end Mrs. Elisabeth
Whitewicli, Great Malvern ; Edward Whitfield. Esq., High-
Smethwirk and Mr. Owes Williams and Mr. hunts
Jones, fellow travellers them Aagissm. All them persona
were esvecely eheken, and most ed them had surtained in-
terim] injuries ; but the LA mud, Mr. Jonee was the
=waterer theta, sustained a fracture of the cheek
beside' other WWII.. The driven of the train. had
jumped off, when they saw that a collision was unavoidable,
and escaped unhurt.
It Is Mated that so blame whatever iaatteched to the pude,
ethaseted with the lamellar of the pmsenger-train, which left
at Its ordinary time, after the safety signal hod bees belated
by the South tkaffordalkint points:ma. The sole culpability
aero,a„ at present, to mat with Charles Aymer, the isginer
driver cat the coal trail'. At the moment of the eallaisa be
was actually half en hoar these hie time; and had the pm-
senger• train been the length of two carders Bulbar es Ls
way, the coal-train must have bees run tight through it.
When the sultriere had their wands trimmed, they Imre CM.
'eyed to Dudley by geoid Was.