The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-08 00:00:00

ZIIE IRISH RAILWAY CATASTROPII.E.

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Western
dreadful accident on the Great Southern and
Western Railway on Wednesday evening has produced
a feeling of intense anxiety—of universal sympathy for
the fate of the persons killed, and those who are suffering
from injuries received on the occasion. Many of the
victims were well known and highly respected in Dublin.
On Thursday Dublin was in a complete ferment, and
rumours of individual deaths were circulated which had
no foundation save in the imagination of some terrified
friend or relative of a possible passenger by the ill-fated
train.
Subjoined is an authentic list of the deaths :
Mr. Jelly, Queen's County.
Mr. John Egan, Parsonstown.
Mr. M'Swiney, solicitor, Kenmare, county of Kerry,
and Mrs. M'Swiney.
Mr. Bateman, Cork.
Mr. M`Nally, solicitor, Dublin.
Miss Clara Kirwan, Abbey-street, Dublin.
Miss Margaret Palmer, Dublin, daughter of Abraham
,Palmer, Esq., the Bank of Ireland.
Miss Margaret Leathly, 62, Eccles-street, Dublin.
Mrs. Smith, Mallow.
Mrs. Knapp, England.
Mr. Hill, Kildare.
seph Sherwood, servant of Dr. Stokes, Dublin.
The following persons were seriously injured, but are
Progressing favourably :
Miss Ellen Farrell, Dublin.
Miss Emma Pack, Parsonstown.
Esther Cotley, Parsonstown.
Mr. Neville, county of Louth.
A child of Mrs. Knapp.
A. child of Mr. and Mrs. M'Swiney.
Mrs. Blacker, wife of Natham Blacker, solicitor of the
....Customs, London.
rs. Croker, Barrington.
Miss Esther Coffey, of Birn.
Sarah Jane Telford. .r
is asserted that immediately after the collision, and
the wounded were lying on the ground writhing
~,t°rture, that some country people actually robbed the
)I„ererB. Miss Blennerhasset, a relation of Lord Guilla-
fro-l'e's, was thus robbed of her watch, which was torn
that%her side. Several other allegations of robbery at
A 'earful period are reported.
pti.,11,) inquest was held on the bodies of the deceased
the ,t4l on Thursday, and with the evidence adduced,
goo ironer caused James Gass, the engine-driver of the
the? train, James Bury, the guard, and John O'Hara,
littil°,}rr, to be arrested. The inquest was adjourned
‘nis day (Saturday).

..4'4I?PUL SHIPWRECK.-THREE HUNDRED
AND FORTY-EIGHT LIVES LOST.

t. I'Ve regret to announce one of the most terrible catas-
'ophes that has come under our notice for some time,--
th.
t"..",,,,t°tal loss of the ship Annie Jane, Mason, corn-
er, bel belonging to Liverpool, which was driven
the cc thrcron--bound coast of Barra Island, during
..,103 recent gales, on the night of Wednesday, the 28th
"it., When no fewer than 348 passengers—men, women,
4.0 d children —met with a watery grave. Intelligence
Of the disaster was first received at Lloyd's through a
oo ,ell_llll2coleation from the editor of the Slapping Gazette,
" placed it at the disposal of Captain Halstead, the
secret-117. The advices which had been forwarded front heir agent at Tobermory, and, subsequently, the re-
Port of the loss, were confirmed by a telegraphic mes-
sage from Liverpool. The accounts, although some-
What brief, place the loss, it is feared, almost beyond a
doubt. The Annie Jam was a large vessel, and sailed
fr, cm Liverpool, for Quebec and Montreal, on the 9th of
last month, with some 450 emigrants, most of them
Irish families. It is presumed that she had made some
progress across the Atlantic, when she encountered
the late fearful south-westerly gales, which disabled her
and rendered her unmanageable, and in that hopeless
condition she was driven back and dashed on the
terrible coast of Barra, one of the Hebrides. With a
point called Vatersay, where the wreck occurred, the
island is six miles in length and two and a-half broad,
and lies some five miles south-west of the next island,
'list. The in habitants are mostly employed in the cod-
fishing. There is a light-house on the head, which is
the highest in the united kingdom, being
680 feet
above the level of the sea. Such is the terrible character
of the coast, however, that there is little chance of a vessel
being rescued when once it is entangled among the reefs.
several of the survivors contrived to get a passage
from the island over to Tobermory, a small seaport in
the Isle of Mull, and from them the authorities
learned that 348 passengers were drowned, and 102,
with Mr. Bell, the chief officer, and 12 of the crew,
saved. A message states that the master, Mr. Mason,
was also preserved. The names of the passengers who
have arrived at Tobermory, are John Kingston, county
of Cork ; George, brother to the former ; Timothy
bineur, county of Cork ; James Edmiston, county of
Antrim ; Alexander M'Cormick, county of Armagh ;
Martha Tevanning, county of Cork, and some French
Canadians. The crews are James Boyd, James Mar-
shall, Charles Carroll, of Bay Chaleur, Thomas Gemmel,
Joseph Miller, Antonio Ligett, Charles Bunion, James
wood, and Charles Burnett.