The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-03 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRXPII.
DERBY RACES-MN DAY,

BRETBY STAKES.

Practitioner
Tom Foolery
Cjimbra
INNKEEPERS' PLATE.

Miss Livingstone
Eryt hia

Five ran.
DONNINGTON PLATE.

Overture
Lufra
Redcap 3

Four ran.

The Accident on the West Cornwall
Railway.

About seven o'clock on Monday evening the
body of the deceased driver, Wm. Easthorne, was
removed from the Higher Town Inn, in a shell, in
temporarypenw Penwithers-bridge,
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charge of his mother and other relatives, to the
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the 7.15 train to Peezance. The deceased lived n
that town, and has left a widow and five children.
The widow is a daughter of Mr. Richard Thomas,
an engine-driver on the line, and Mr Thomas, who
lives in Camborne, is desirous that the body should
be taken there for barial. As in all cases of dee,th
by accident in Cornwall, the funeral will be ?at-
tended by large numbers of sympathisers. Another
death has resulted from the accident, Thomas Olds,
the assistant guard, having expired about one o'clock,
an morning, in the Royal Cornwall Infir-
mary,e
his
ay
smother being with him at the time. His
fatht r, a small farmer, of Gwinear, was also in the
house, having, with the young woman to whom the
deceased was engaged to be married next Saturday,
been constant in attendance upon him. Up to Sa-
turday last deceased was a porter at the Penzsnc
Station, but had just been appointed to a situation
as fireman, and which he would shortly have taker,.
On Sunday the brother of ens of the present guards
having to be buried at Truro, the deceased was
selected to act as assistant-guard for that day.
Little more than eight hours afterwards he WAS in-
jured. The passenger and general traffic of the line
is maintained, temporarily, by means of four-horse
omnibuses, running from and to the Truro Station
in connexion with the several trains. They pro-
ceed on the turnpike to and from Sealock, where the
road and railway are nearly on a level. The
restitution of the bridge at Penwithers is being
rapidly proceeded with by a large number of
workmen, under the supervision of Mr. Sheriff, the
resident engineer. It is probable that the line
will re-open to-morrow. With the exception of
some few stones et the top which came away
with the southern beam, the masonry of the bridge
is found to have sustained no damage from the la'zo
accident. It was against the eastern end of the
south hand-rail that the engine struck on Sunday
evening. On this end the engine—of about 30 tons
weight, and running probably at from 15 to 20
miles an hour—impinged with such force as to split
it through the greater part of its length, and,
rending the bolts by which it was fastened to the
truss, to send it flying on to the south slope of the
western embankment—a distance of some 40 feet.
At the same instant the engine, having but one set
of wheels on the permanent way between the rails,
smashed the southern truss ; and the suspended
beam and flooring, having thus lost their chief sup-
port, gave way. The engine—the southern wheels
of which, after leaving the embankment, could have
had no support whatever—toppled over into the
road, together with the south truss and the greater
part of the bridge flooring. The stoker, John Jones,
in the Infirmary, is likely to recover. He was on
the south side of the engine when the collision
occurred, but as the engine came on the bridge he
got on the boiler, and leaped from it on the north
side, and was immediately so self-possessed that his
first exclamation was, " Where's my mate ?" Ile
at once crossed the embankment and assisted in the
efforts that were being made to release the driver,
Easthorne, who at first complained about his legs,
and then repeatedly exclaimed, with all his remain-
ing strength, " Lord, have mercy on my soul," and
died in about ten minutes.—Western Morning
_News.