The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-05 00:00:00

the utmost After viewing the bodies, the Coroner said he
regarded the railway need hardly tell the jury that any investigation of
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when men's minds were not prepared to bring to
the consideration of the circumstances that might
be laid before them the calm and dispassionate
consideration to which the importance of the
case was so much entitled, It was also due to the
friends of the deceased that their bodies should be
removed as soon as possible for interment. He had,
therefore, summoned them together to-day for the
mere purpose of identifying the bodies, so that he
might issue his certificate for their removal for
burial. The inquiry would be adjourned until Fri-
day at 10 o'clock, and would then proceed de die in
diem until it was brought to a close. He need
hardly tell the jury, in a matter of this importance,
not to discuss the matter, nor to form an opinion on
it until the full facts were before them, for a certain
amount of prejudice might get into their minds
which ought not to exist, ad therefore, if they
would be kind enough to refrain from the expres-
sion of any opinion he should feel obliged to them.
Mr. James Eccles then identified the body of
Mr. Laird, who, he said was in his 55thyear ; Mrs.
Susan Collison identified the body of Elizabeth
Clarke, aged 73 ; Mr. Hubbard identified Mrq.
Clark, of Brandon; Mr. Whitby, builder, identified
Mrs. Brown ; Mr. J. Halfour, Wisbech, identified
Miss Palmer, who, he said, was 25 or 26 years of

age.
Tne Coroner then said that was all he proposed
to do that day. If the friends of any of the dead
would like to be represented by any legal gentleman
he would give every facility for it. It was a matter
into which a most searching inquiry should be made.
If also any friends of the deceased wished to have
witnesses examined they should have a summons
from him (the Coroner) upon application. He also
mentioned that Mr. Edwards, the solicitor of the
line, and some officers of the company would meet
the jury on the spot, and that a train would. leave
Lynn that afternoon for that purpose. The inquiry
was then adjourned.
Without in any way anticipating the evidence
which may be given at the inquest, or the disputes
which may arise, it may be said that the point which
will cause much discussion will in all probability be
the effectiveness of the fences between the fields and
the line. It is said that cattle have been found on
the line more than once before, and that when a
party of officials brought by a special train from
London visited the spot at 3 o'clock a.m. on Tues-
day morning they found horses on the line. The
fence between the line and the grazing land at the
spot where the accident happened is not much above
a foot high, and the dikes are quite dry. The
wretched animal the cause of the mischief, was, as
I
may be supposed, cut to pieces, and its remains
were scattered about in all directions.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I much regret to inform you that an accident oc-
curred on the Lynn and Hunstanton Railway last evening,
attended with loss of life to six passengers and serious in-
jury to others, which arose from a bullock having gct on
the line. An investigation is being made into the circum-
stances.
The names of the sufferers are the following :
Deaths—Mr. Laird, of Lynn; Mrs. Palmer, of Walsken ;
Mrs. Brown, of Lynn; Miss Clarke, of Lynn; Miss Clarke,
of Brandon; Mr. Dennis, of Lynn.
Injured—Miss Bartle, of Lynn; Miss Jickling, of Lynn;
Mrs. Laird, of Lynn; Miss Southgate, of Lynn ; M
Cobb rs. Bat-
terham, of Lynn ; Mrs. Cobb, of Lynn ; Miss ,of
Lynn ; Mrs. Adams, of Lynn; Mr. Wilkin, of Lynn ; Miss
Masters, of Lynn; Mrs. Brightmore, of Lynn.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
J. B. OViEN, Secretary.
Great Eastern Railway Company, Secretary's-office,
Bishopsgate-station, London, N.E., Aug. 4.