The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-10 00:00:00

FATAL BOILER ACCIDENT AT 7HE

GREAI WES7ERN STATION.

A fatal accident took place on Saturday at the
Great Western Railway Station, Paddington, by
the bursting of a boiler. From information obtained
at the station and at St. Mary's Hospital, it appears
that three men, two of whom were named James
Thomas and Stephen Bishop, were pursuing their
ordinary business in the engine-house at 5.40
that morning. From some cause, which at pre-
sent cannot be ascertained, the boiler of the en-
gine named Perseus suddenly burst and killed the
two men, Thomas and Bishop. The explosion
was of so forcible a nature as to blow off a great
part of the roof of the engine house. The engine
itself was soon discovered to be a complete wreck,
and a piece of the boiier, weighing 15 cwt., was
thrown to a distance of 150 yards from the scene of
the accident. The dead bodies of the two men were
carried ;o St. Mary's Hospital to await an inquest.
One of the men was mutilated in a fearful manner.
The other was not very much mutilated, but both
of them seem to have been instantaneously killed.
The third man in the engine house sustained some
injuries, but they were not supposed to be of a dan-
gerous ch, raoter. This man was conveyed to his
residence as soon as possible after the accident.
Thomas was 22. He was unmarried. Bishop was
a fireman.

Since the foregoing account was written we learn
that another man died at St. Mary's Hospital yes-
terday morning from injuries received through the
accident.

FATAL COLLISION ON THE LONDON
AND NORTH- WESTERN RAILWAY.

On Saturday Dr. Lankester, the Central Middle-
sex coroner, held a long inquiry at the Bank of
England Tavern, Praed.street, Paddington, relative
to the death of Joseph Buckingham, aged 43 years,
a breaksman, in the employ of the London and
North-Western Railway, who was killed on that
line on Tuesday last, under the following circum-
stances :

Henry Plews said he was a guard in the service
of the London and North-Western Railway, and
was arriving with the train on Tuesday last, be-
tween the Great-Western line ond Fulham, at
about 9.20 a.m., when on going down the incline,
some plate-layers informed him that the train had
parted. It was very foggy at the time,
and he could not see behind. He told the
driver to slacken his speed, and he got down and
went back, when he found the waggons coming
over the Great Western Bridge. They were going
slowly, and he put down five breaks, but as they
were on a decline the speed was increased, so he ran
up to the driver and told him to go on faster, which
he did. The waggons, however, rushed on and
came in contact with the front part of the train. The
result was that three breaks and two waggons were
thrown off the line by the force of the collision. The
under guard, the foreman, and waggon examiner
were in breaks. They were not altogether. The
deceased was in the front van.

Mr. Bruyere, general superintendent of the line,
explained that this witness spoke of the deceased
as the under guard.
Witness continued and said that the foreman and
waggon examiner jumped out before the collision.
By a Juror—The five breaks did not take effect
The couplings had become unfastened.

Mr. Bruyere said that witness had charge of the
train, and it was his duty to see that the carriages
were properly coupled. The coupling chains un-
hooked, as they frequently will.
Witness, in answer to further questions, said that
som9times in coming down the incline the breaks
are put on to check the speed, and the hooks will
then, on the train going on again, come out of the
loop. He examined the coupling after the accident,
and found that nothing at all was broken.
Mr. Bruyere said that the incline was very great
at this spot, it being 1 in 60.
Piews, in answer to the Coroner, said that side
couplings were not used. He did not consider them
safe.

Chas. Head, the engine-driver of the train, was
was the next witness, and said the train was run-
ning from the West London Junction to Fulham
Basin, and consisted of about 27 waggons and two
breaks. He slackened speed to go down the incline
and over the Great Western Railway Bridge. When
they had got a little way down the last witness called
to him that the train had broken loose. The de-
ceased held out his hand, standing on a stool at
the corner of his break, and then he got on to the
come
see what ben in collision
with ground. He missed sight of him as the Waggons
ran down and came into collision. He saw one of
:ffgitrldieer.linHe
eanddid
bridge g
wt the
h breaksthe b
came of the deceased.
William Beadle, the foreman' said he was in the
train on Tuesday last. He was in
which the deceased got after thetne break, into
parted. Before the break came into Waggons had
collision with
the bridge witness got out
the break, and he was and left the deceased in
not seen again until he was
found on the road over the '
bridge some time after
the accident. He was
ing
very
niuth. _ lying on his back and groan-
Lie was removed to St Mary's

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Hospital, where he expired in a few hour
from the
injuries he received.
Mr. Rhodes, the house surgeon, said t hat de-
ceased died from effusion of blood in the pelvis, and
contusion of the spine.
The Coroner then summed up, and a long con-
versation ensued as to the security of the couplings,
several of the jury expressing an opinion that the
fastenings were insecure.
Mr. Bruyere said the hooks were of the safest
description.
The jury returned a verdict of accidental death,
but expressed a desire to bring under the notice of
the coroner a recommendation tht,t in future More
secure couplings should be employed.

THE RIOT AT BLACKBURN.

The Town-hall, County Court-offices, anti the
private residences along Preston New-road, Bra tloh"
road, and King-street, suffered chiefly from Ole
violence of the rioters at Blackburn on Thursday
night. The reported "sacking" of Pleasington-hab
is now stated to be utterly unfounded. About 100
persons attacked the house, but beyond the glass io
eight or ten windows, no further damage was done-
The besiegers were fired on, and it is said one or
two were ii;jured. They took the advice of Colonel
Cowdon, and decamped before a charge was made
upon them.
On Friday morning several persons were appre-
hended on a charge of riot, and brought before the
borough magistrates.—The prisoners were—Thomas
Kaney, John Livesey, John Richmond, James We a:
dington, James Ashton, Nicholas Hindle, David
Bullen (one of the liberated poachers), Roger DO'
sey, and John Corless. Mr. T. Clough prosecuted,
and applied for a remand till Monday next, which
was granted. Applications for bail were wade IV
several of the prisoners, but were refused. fn c01?'
sequence of the assembling of crowds of persons
in
the market place on Friday, the magistrates issn,eu
a notice forbidding such assemblages, and authorW
ing the police to take offenders into custody. J 3
this means the large crowds of the previous der
were prevented, and other measures were adopted
for the preservation of order. During the breaking
of the windows of private houses on Thursday even'
ing by the mob, several persons narrowly escaped
severe injuries, and many were struck by the 0:08-
siles. At 3 o'clock the Relief Committee met at the
Town-hall, and after some discussion passed the fol-
lowing conclusions :—" The Blackbth'n Relief CO'
mittee consider it just to express their absolute eel'
tainty that the disturbance in Blacklmh7n on the
evening of Nov. 6, incident on the convictio;
tain persons of poaching, was in no sense du
distress, or to the administration of relief
poor-law guardians or the relief committee,
friends of those convicted seem, as far as t]
mittee can discover after inquiry, to be pers(
out of sheer mischief commenced the break
windows without discrimination, inasmuch
windows of empty houses, as well as those
ratives, were broken. The committee, th
express their conviction that there is in thi
nothing to shake their confidence in the 1:11
tience and quiet behaviour of the sufferers a,
Many of those operatives have to-day ex
their sorrow that persons should have
wrongfully, and cheerfully offered to enro,
selves as special constables."

COUNTRY MARA. 1,245.

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NORWICH—SATURDAY.
Wheat was in limited supply to-day, and thk
last week were barely supported for all descript
millers not being free buyers. There was a good
barley offering, and late prices were about Inc
In oats, beans, and peas not much business doing,
rather easier to buy.
White wheat. 50s to 52- I Red wheat 44s t03,5i
Malting barley ...34s to 37s I Chevalier barley 33P °sly
Distilling d 0..... 28s to 30s I Oats.. •••.• 25t0
Flour, 30e 6d to —8 Od per sack from the miller'

LEICESTER—SATunDAT.
Old white wheat, 608 to 62A ; new, 48s to 52e Pell
altin
stone. Old red, 54s to 578 per 36 stone. Barley, in ota,
new, 34s to 38s per qr.. grinding, 30s to 325; ow,
29s to 31s; new oats, 22s to 25s per 24 stone. 13
new, —s to —s ; old, 418 to 43s per 38 stone.

NOY. 296
New wheat, SROsTHAMPTON—SATURDA to 545; old, 50s to 575. Bari' 00
to 40s per qr. New oats quoted at 24s to 280; ol izs to
to 34s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 39s to 425; new,
38s. Peas, 36s to 44s per qr.

NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY.
White wheat, from Ms to 64s ; red wheat, 46s to Of;
Barley—malting, 36s to 438; grinding, 29s to 325. Ot,
old, at 25s to 31s Od; new, 23s to 278. Beau sold At ,
to 45s per qr. Flour, 41s to 448.

YORK— .
The sales made were effected at an advance of 10 Per clr
for wheat. Other sorts of grain firm.
Wheat, red 4ss to 50s Oats....
White do .50s to 568 Beans ..39:
Barley .32s to 33s Peas .......... to 40
Malt, 64s to 66s per qr. ; rye, 39s per qr ; f2ll:° 2°4:
to 42s per sack.

DUBLIN•

s. d. s. d.
Wheat, white 30 0 to 34 0
Do., red 27 0 to 32 0
Do., new
Barley
Oats
0., black l4 6 to 16 6

d,
s. d. 0
21
Beans.. ..... 24 0 t° i 6 0
Bere
Rapereed 0 to
6
Oatmeal l5 0 to 11; 6
Balers' flour
Indian corn
.110

-FRMAY.

CORK-FRIDAY.

The following were the quotations this morning :--100
wheat, 18s Od to 25s 9d ; white, 21s 9d to 29s Od, barle9l to
9d to 71s Od ; oats, 8s 6d to 108 6d. ; now bere, o
—s Od.

FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST.

MAILS DUE. l9'
Aus'aalia and Mauritius, via Southampton. . .174 , °''ls'
via Marseilles
43razil and Cape lrerds, by British packet. pee'.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Pee. 19.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton-0.0 13,
via Marseilles ...14°'' 4,
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton DT6'.!" 13'
via Marseilles Dr°'' 10,
India (Bombay),
via via Southamp
.. No Dlofog' 4,
_ Marseilles

Lisbon
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton

via Marseilles
Nov'
Newfoundland
Oporto and Vigo ..
NOY' 0,
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet....
by U.S. packet....„.. ~,, 1,
by Canadian packet. P.,°,7, 1.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .......... J'°., 20'
Bahamas, via New York . Nov ~s,
.......
..„0. ;
Mexico..
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 Nov.
California, and British Columbia.

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BIRTHS,
Douglas, Esq., of a daughter. na
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BULLER.—On the 2d inst., at Chavenage, the Wife o
Hon, John Yarde Buller, of a son.
til,
DOUGLAS.—On the 6th inst., at West hill, WandsW°l.
GRIFFITILOn the 6th ns. at 16,
the wife of Henry
Guidord-street,c,' gq.,
sell-square, the wife loftyilliam Pattit Griffith,
F.S.A., of a son.
HuGEL.—On the 4th inst., at VI
Baroness Henri do Hugel) -of ASperg, WUrtaabergf
a son,

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BAKER—CARTEIL--On the 6th inst at St. AfarY'llkpf rio3l4'
to Frances, eldest daughter ur°
'Carter, Big',
Elms, Falcon-read, Battersea.of Thomas
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feshir n the sth ms .9
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tel, to Mary Russell, eldest daughter of George ro
Esq., of Strathmore, Fifeshire.
DEATHS. ~.,. soll,t°l
BEAUMONT.—On the 6th inst., at Fulham, /lan"' 'ed "''
the late R. H. Beaumont, sq., of Gravesend, g
a- flee*
BRANTON.—On the 7th inst., at blicklefield-gree MP
Thomas Da-
y Branton D eldest son of the jaw
h•street, Bat-7::
Branton, Esq., of Higham-hill, Essex, aged 59. d.etraci'
CAMEnON.—On the sth inst., at 38, Sutherlat, Dicer
Pimlico, John Cameron, Esq., late of Glenney 1
at
ness-shire, aged 80.
II Vq.' .
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PERSCUSE.—On the 4th inst., Henry Pershoy,
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his residence, Stafford House, Victoria-pea
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TRUSCOTT.—On the sth inst., Henrietta, youlfes_,,t. el.;,
ter of Mr. James Truscott, of Moorgate- young_,,
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aged 19. terrace'
inst., at 17 'Eastbourne' —der
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W., Colin Dunlop Wilson, Esq., u.
Hyde-park,
Dumbartonshire, aged 27.
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