The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-07 00:00:00

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

STAGHOUNDS.
Cheltenham—To-morrow, Puesdown; Friday, Seven
Springs—at twelve.

FOXHOUNDS.

Albrighton—To-morrow, Aqualate ; Thursday, Prest-
wood ; Saturday, Burnhill Green—at eleven.
Duke of Beaufort's—Wednesday, Bushton ; Thursday,
Tate Turnpike ; Saturday, The Plough, Kington St.
Michal's.

Bedale—Wednesday, Watlass ; Friday, Blows Hall,
Hutton Moor—at half-past ten.
Old Berkshire—Wednesday, Milton Hill ; Friday,
Buscot—at half-past ten.
Cambridgeshire—Friday, Childerley Gate—at half-
past ten.
Carmarthenshire—Friday, Trevanchan Bridge—at ten.
Cheshire—Wednesday, Darnhall ; Thursday, Ship-
brooke Bridge ; Saturday, Peckforton—at half-past ten.
Mr. Colyer's--To-morrow, Timberden ; Thursday,
Maplescombe ; Saturday, Royal Oak, Wrotham—at
ten.
South Devon—Thursday, Bradley.
Mr. Drake's—To-morrow, Frinford-bridge ; Thursday,
Horton-common ; Saturday, Lower Boddington—at
quarter to eleven_
F. B.—Friday, Bishop's-wood—at eleven.
Mr. Furse's—Friday, Bremridge-wood—at half-past
ten.

Mr. Garth's—Wednesday, the Bull, Barkham ; Friday,
Greywell, at half-past ten.
Gwrtheyrn—To-morrow, Brechfa ; Friday, Cumduad
—at ten.

Hambledon—Wednesday, Basing-park.
H. H.—To-morrow, Hinton-house ; Thursday, Chilton-
old-house ; Saturday, Herriard-park—at a quarter to
eleven.

Hursley—Friday, Ball-down—at a quarter to eleven.
Hurworth—To-morrow, Hornhy-village ; Saturday,
Kennels—at half-past ten.
Llanelly—Wednesday, Pemarey-house ; Saturday,
Furzen-field—at eleven.

Mr. W. S. Lowndes's—To-morrow, Wanslow ; Satur-
day, Furzed-field, at eleven.
Mr. Luxton's—To-morrow, Lung-down-cross, near
Southtawton ; Friday, the Schoolmaster—at half-past
ten.

Mr. Morgan's—Thursday, Chillaton—at half-past ten.
New Forest—To-morrow, Vinney-ridge ; Saturday,
The Union—at eleven.

South Oxfordshire—To-morrow, Stow-wood ; Friday,
Rycote—at a quarter to eleven.
Mr. L. Phillips's—Thursday, Race-course—at ten.
South Pembrokeshire—To-morrow, Sadgeston-village;
Friday, Amrouth—at ten.
Sir Henry Scales—To-morrow, Roister-bridge ; Fri-
day, Burlestone-wood.
Somerset and Wilts—To-morrow, Viaduct ; Friday,
Thoalstone-gate--at half-past ten.
Lord Southampton's—Wednesday, Foster's-booth ;
Friday, Astwell-mill ; Saturday, Castlethorpe —at
eleven.

Mr. Lee Steere's—Thursday, Strood-gate.
Tivysicie—Thursday, Heullan-bridge--at ten.
Tredegar—Wednesday, Llanrumney-lodge ; Friday,
Highcross—at half-past eleven.
Mr. Trels,wny's—To-morrow, Sheep's Tor-village ;
Saturday, Carew Arms.
Vine—Thursday, Grazelry-green ; Saturday, Old
Basing—at eleven..
Mr. Wheble's—To-morrow, Unhill; Friday, Beech-
hill—at eleven.

York and Ainstey—To-morrow, Acaster ; Thursday,
Skip-bridge ; Saturday, Linton—at half-pastaten.

SCOTCH.

Lanarkshire and Benfrewshire—To-morrow, Cadder ;
Saturday, Milton-lockhart, at a quarter to eleven.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BOLTON RAILWAY.

THREE PERSONS KILLED, AND TEN INJURED.

The following additional particulars have been ascer-
tained with respect to this accident, of which we gave a
brief account on Saturday :
The train was an express from Liverpool, Southport,
and Fleetwood, bringing passengers from Scotland and
the north of England. Its time of starting from Bolton,
according to the published time tables, is 5.45 p.m. ; but
it is stated that it left about three minutes beyond that
time. It was due at Manchester at ten min. past six,
having to do eleven miles in about twenty-five min., in-
cluding a stoppage to collect tickets. The train, when
it left Boston, consisted of a four-wheeled engine and
tender, a composite carriage of three compartments ;
then came a first-class carriage, followed by a second-
class ; behind these were five more, of various kinds.
The rate at which the train usually runs from Bolton to
Manchester is from 30 to 40 miles an hour ; between the
Halshaw Moor station it is often the latter speed, and
now that this fearful event has occurred, there is a gene-
ral complaint of the oscillation of the carriages when at
that speed.
Nothing occurred to attract attention, it would seem,
until the train got to Halshaw Moor, when a speed was
attained of such 'velocity that the last carriage, a first-
class, rocked to and fro so much that its occupants could
not have retained their seats had it not been for the arm
rests. The high speed and the concurrent excessive
oscillation were complained of by the passengers. A
gentleman who rode in the last carriage, annoyed by
the jolting, said to a fellow-passenger that he thought
they were going at a tremendous rate, and that the car-
riage rocked very unpleasantly, to which the person ad-
dressed replied, "Oh no, we're only going a little
quick ;" but he had scarcely finished the sentence before
both felt the carriage off the line. Almost immediately
after it cane to a stand-still, and on getting out hastily
they found that an accident had happened, and that
every carriage was off the rails, It was then about six
o'clock, and the train had got about five miles on its
way towards Manchester. The scene which then pre-
sented itself was appaling. The engine was laid across
the up-line, with its head towards Bolton, directly
opposite to its former course, whilst the tender was
fixed in the side of a cutting, through which the line
runs, a few yards behind the engine. The composite
carriage which had been next to it was reared upon it,
still higher up the side of the cutting ; below, between
the engine and the tender, was'a first-class carriage, and
next to it the second-class carriage. The first-class car-
riage was slightly on fire, and in these three carriages
were a number of persons shrieking for help. Informa-
tion was instantly sent forward to the Clifton station,
but from some difficulty in carrying the information
speedily to Manchester, it was fully an hour and a half
before any of the officials from the main station could be
got to the spot. In the meantime every exertion had
been used to relieve the sufferers, and it was found that
a fearful sacrifice of human life had taken place, and that
many who were not killed were shockingly injured. The
driver, Thomas Crostin, was found between the two
lines, not far from his engine, quite dead, and horribly
crushed ; John Simmons, a man who got on the engine
at Halshaw-moor, was found dead not far off, shockingly
disfigured.
The composite carriage, which mounted upon the tender,
was found to be scarcely injured. In one end compart-
ment (second-class), there were five or six persons, who
were uninjured beyond the severe shaking. The centre
compartment contained two ladies, Mrs. and Miss Sofiani,
wife and daughter of Mr. A. Sofiani, a Greek mer-
chant, in Booth-street, Manchester, and Mr. Constan-
tine Carati, of Glasgow, also a Greek merchant, a friend
of Mr. Sofiani's. The ladies were much bruised and cut
about the head, but were not more seriously iujured.
Both Mr. Carati's legs were broken a little below the
knee. The compartment itself was not much injured.
The next, a second-class, forming the other end was
much more damaged. The first-class carriage was a
complete wreck ; of the frame scarcely a foot remained
intact, and when the men went to clear it away they
coul do no more than throw the pieces into a heap. In
this carriage were Mr. G. F. Barbour, of the Grange,
Edinburgh ; Mrs. Barbour ; their three children, one
about eight years, another five, and an infant in arms ;
Betsey Macartney, nurse, and Ellen Hogg, lady's maid.
The second son was killed, the injuries on the head
appearing to have caused instantaneous death. Mr.
Barbour was very much hurt, and was insensible for a
couple of hours, from a slight concussion of the brain
and other injuries. Mrs. Barbour was also rendered
insensible from the shock, and when she recovered she
found herself lying across the rails. Fearing some
greater mishap if she continued there, she crawled with
great difficulty to the side of the line, and found her
unfortunate child dead. She remained lying there per-
fectly sensible, but unable to rise, from about six o'clock
until nearly eight, when she was removed to Manches-
ter, and it was found that she had fractured her collar-
bone. The eldest boy was taken up insensible, but not
dead, and it was subsequently found that he was severely
scalded on the lower extremities. Ellen Hogg, the lady's
maid, escaped with a slight contusion of the spine.
Betsy Macartney sustained a compound dislocation of
the ancle joint, and when she reached the Manchester
Royal Infirmary it was pecessary to amputate the end
of the bone before it could be returned to its place. The
preservation of the infant she had in charge was almost
miraculous. It was found by a passenger, lying in a
ditch by the side of the rails, and was given by him to a
woman, who took it to her cottage, undressed, and
warmed and fed it ; the unhappy parents not kriowing,
for a length of time, what had become of it.
Mrs. Horrocks, rife of Mr. Horrocks, of Middleton-
hall, drysalter, also sustained a compound dislocation of
the left ancle, and the bone had to be cut before it was
reduced. Mr. Vincent Martin, of St. Austell, in Corn-
wall, a traveller, who had just finished his north journey
and got in at Halshaw Moor on his return home, had
his right arm fractured, two ribs broken, and his right
hand lacerated. Mr. Robert Fitton, cotton-spinner, of
Shaw, near Oldham, sustained a fracture of the leg, and
internal injuries. Mr. Henry Kay, of Prestwich, a
salesman, had his left thigh fractured ; and Mr. Henry
Pugh, shoemaker, of Bexley-street, Salford, had both
bones of his left leg fractured.
As the unfortunate sufferers were taken out of the
carriages, they were laid upon the wet banks, on some
parts of which snow still remained ; but the cushions of
the first-class carriages were made into beds for them
eventually. About half-past seven o'clock Mr. Black-
more, superintendent of that division of the line, Mr.
Hurst, the locomotive superintendent, and Mr. Ayles-
bury, master of the Oldfield-lane station, reached the
spot with a special train, and instant arrangements were
made for removing the sufferers to Manchester. The
task of removal from the carriages was a dreadful one,
owing to the difficulties of getting the sufferers out, but
it was effected with as much care and gentleness as could
be shown. It was not until Saturday afternoon that
the debris had been removed and the line restored.
There are two hypotheses as to the cause of this fright-
ful accident ; one, that the engine went off the line be-
cause the speed was too high ; to this the passengers
adhere ; the other, held by the company's officials, that
the axletree of the engine broke.