The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY .EVENIAi, OCTOBER 15, 1862.

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broke in two. She escaped uninjured, and spent ,
the night in Cranston's•Hotel.'
Mr. Lamb, a traveller for Simpson and Co., of
Oxford-street, was a passenger in the train, and
escaped wit's:La gash in his brow, and was able to
walk to Craneton's Hotel.
James Baird, the guard in charge of the train
from Glasgow, escaped without a scratch. He
states that as soon as the collision occurred he
jumped off and ran along the line with his lamp in
his hand, to prevent any other train coming up.
The cause of the accident was undoubtedly some
misunderstanding as to the signal at the single line ;
but nothing is
positively known at the time we
write as to who is in fault.

The eleven dead bodies removed to the police-
office are laid out in two rooms for identification,
and present, as may be imagined, an appalling
spectacle.

Some who arrived in Edinburgh last night esti-
mated the number of dead bodies at 20, others wt
15, bat the exact number is not known ; and the
following is as complete a list of killed and wounded
as we could obtain up to going to press :--

DEAD.
Up to half-past two o'clock 11 bodies, eight male and
three female, had been brought to the Read Police-office
High-street.
One of the women appeared to be about 70 years of age,
and all her teeth were gone. She was dressed in a black
dress, and had in her pocket a powder hetrivg ,ame of
"Kemp, Portobello."
Those identified are—Mr. Hosie, Dunfermline; and Mr.
Cowie, goods superintendent at Stirling."
Mr. Cowie had in his possession letters from Mr. Fleming,
Falkirk."
Mrs. Honeyman, wife of the driver of the Glasgow train,
is among the dead. She had a young child with her. It,
strange to say, escaped uninjured, and was left at Winch-
burgh. Its mother lived about three-quarters of an hour
after the accident.
A gentleman—identified as a Mr. Macfarlan---is dead.
WOUNDED. _ _

Miss Smith, Grange-place, Edinburgh--soverely scalded.
Four men severely scalded, and one of them has suss
tained a compound fracture of the lower jaw.
_ _

Two men have severe head injuries.
A soldier of the Scots Greys sustained compound fracture
of the left leg.
Two men with injuries on the shoulder and breast.
One gentleman, a Mr. Hardy, of Aberdeen, is severely
scalded from head to foot, and the whole of the outer skin
peeling off.
Archibald Niel, driver of the train from Glasgow, dan-
gerous injuries about the head and neck, and severely
scalded. This man states that after he passed Linlithgow
he got a signal to go on, and consequently went ahead.
Margaret Clark, of Linlithgow, has sustained compound
fracture of her right leg below the knee.
Mr. Elder, commercial traveller, Broughton-street, Edin-
burgh, has been injured severely about the head.
Mr. and Mrs. Kerr, of India-place, Glasgow, severely '
burned.
Two prisoners who were on their way to the Perth peni-
tentiary, were injured about the head and limbs. The
soldier who had charge of them escaped unhurt.
Mr. Macnab, of Cupar Fife, was dreadfully scalded.
Mr, Honeyman, driver, very severe injuries about the
limbs.
Alexander Alison, injured about head and limbs.
Robert Scott, 91, Causewayside, face and leg severely
injured.
Mr. Ross, Barony-street, face much scalded and contused.
Amongst those whom we heard of as being wounded
were Mr. Middlemass, of the Rainbow Tavern, North
Bridge, who was severely hurt about the head.
Amongst the passengers who were wounded and taken
to their homes in cabs was Mr. Welch, of the firm of
Holtum and Welch, habit-makers, George-street, who, we
understand, was seriously injured about the thigh.
The scene after the accident, as described by eye-
witnesses, was one of the most appalling which it
is possible to conceive. The parliamentary train
from Glasgow at five o'clock, consisting, so far as
could be ascertained, of 11 or 12 carriages, well
filled with passengers, was proceeding along at a
very quick pace, when in the cutting at
Craigton Bridge, about one mile and a half west of
Winchburgh, and four and a half on this side of
Linlithgow, it came in contact with the five o'clock
north train from Edinburgh, composed of two first
and two third-class carriages, a guard's van, and a
horse-box. The result was one terrible shock which
shattered the engines, and then another still more
tremendous, caused, it is supposed, by the carriages
leaping up over the engines and above one another.
The engines remained with their funnels close
together, their front wheels slightly elevated, the
tenders crushed forward upon the boilers, and the
carriages piled, some in fragments and some only
partially broken, on the top of all, to the height, it
is said by some, of the new houses in Cockburn-
street, while none make it less than the height of
the Edinburgh Railway station from the platform
to the roof. To add to the horror of the situation
the first shock dashed oat the lights in all the car-
riages, and those partially injured tumbled out into
the gloom of the cloudy night with very vague
notions as to the nature of the accident, their ignor-
ance alike as to the character and extent of the
occurrence rather adding to than diminishing their
fear.

The total darkness was soon succeeded by some-
thing even more frightful—the light from the
flaming carriages nearest the engines, which were
ignited by the fires. Attention was immediately
directed to this new source of alarm, and labourers
were employed in relays to extinguish it by water,
which luckily they succeeded in doing. Immediately
underneath this burning portion lay a woman and
two children, wife and family of the guard on the
Glasgow train, who was himself seriously injured.
His wife was taken out alive, but she died immedi-
ately afterwards, and one of the children was killed,
but the other escaped unhurt. One of the most
shocking sights was the appearance of the dead
body of the stoker of the Scottish Central Railway.
He was crushed forward upon the fire-box by the
tender, and between the two wedged so tightly
that it was found impossible to release him, his
head being bent back over the edge of the tender,
and his hand grasping, as if with terrible tenacity,
the handle which shuts off the steam; many were
severely scalded, and some so disfigured about the
face as to be perfectly unrecognisable.