The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-12 00:00:00

SEVERAL PERSONS DREADFULLY LACERATED.

The melancholy intelligence we arc about to com-
municate to the public may be depended upon, it having
been sent us by a gentleman who arrived this morning
at the Euston terminus, and was one of the passengers
in the Birmingham train to London ; from whose state-
ment it appears that a frightful collision took pLcc
between the Birmingham and North Midland trains at
Rugby, whilst the shifting of the carriages took place,
on which occasion two of the latter carriages were
smashed to pieces, and three persons were so dreadfully
injured that they were expected to survive but a few
hours.

The accident is stated to have arisen from the neg-
ligence of the officer on duty who had the care of the
red light, which he neglected to display. The officer,
it is stated, was immediately taken into custody.
The Birmingham train was uninjured, and the whole
calamity fell upon the North Midland. The scene was
of the most appalling nature, and nearly the whole of
the passengers in the two carriages were more or less
injured. Every attention was paid to the sufferers,
who were conveyed to the head inn, and a surgeon
was in immediate attendance.

Dr. John T. Veitch was one of the passengers in the
train, and afforded his professional assistance, for which
he was remunerated by the Company on his arrival at
the Easton station. . _

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The statement of the servant of the Company having
been apprehended, as stated above, we have since been
informed is erroneous.

The following is the official account :
The mail train which left the Euston Station at
half-past eight last night, on arriving at Rugby detached
two carriages, which were to proceed on to the Midland
Counties Line. The carriages were in the act of be-
ing passed from the London and Birmingham down line
for this purpose, when the mail train, which leaves Bir-
mingham for London at 12, p.m. arriving very slowly
at the station, ran unfortunately in contact with the
crossing carriages, and caused contusions to four of the
passengers, and a slight fracture of the collar•bone to
a fifth.

Surgical attendance was at hand, and every care
taken of the parties.
The immediate cause of the accident is now under
investigation.—Evening Paper.

ANOTHER FIRE IN DUNDEE, WITH 1.053
or Lie& —A fire burst out on Tuesday morning, betwixt
five and six o'clock, in a two storey house, standing alone
ow the west side of Annfield Road. The fire had its
origin in the second storey, and is supposed to have been
occasioned by the igniting of some sticks which the parties
had left on retiring to rest by the side of the fire to kindle
it in the morning. The alarm being given, a number of
the neighbours were quickly on the spot; but the fire had
gained such ground that it was utterly impossible for the
occupants of the garret storeys to escape by the stair. At-
tention was immediately directed to their rescue. A woman,
with a child in her arms, was let out at the garret window,
slipped down the slates, and handed down by a trap.
Other two children were taken out in the same manner :
but, in putting the last child out of the window,
the father lost his balance and fell over the slates,
touching in his descent one of the persons suspend-
' ing the ladder, and shaking it so that the individual
who had caught hold of the child let it got but
its life was happily preserved by one of the par-
ties below catching it in his arms. The unfortunate man
received se severe a contusion on the back of his head by
the fall that he lived but a few minutes. From the
ground flat all got out in safety. By this time (about a
quarter past six) Alf. Coutts and his men were on the spot.
A mother was still lamenting over a child, which she
maintained was in the house, but wirieli had been consi-
dered all the time by those engaged in extinguishing the
fire to have been in one of the neighbouring houses.
About seven o'clock one of the firemen feeling a smell of
flesh burning, directed the pipe towards the spot from
which the smell proceeded, and gaining• admittance, he
extracted the ashes of the cnild. The parent (whose
name was Neilson, a ship carpenter by trade) and child
were buried in one coffin, The roof fell in a few minutes
before seven ; and the fire was got under about half an
hour after eight o'clock, but not until the second storey
had been consumed. The ground floor has alone been
saved.—Dundee Advertiser.
NORTHAMPTON BANK ROBBERY.—Messrs.
Whitworth having received an intimation of the route
taken by Haslock (the young man wbo had robbed them
of 8004 in gold) and his brother, sent one of the town
police to London yesterday week, who traced them to
Shooter'e Hill, and thence to Dover, where the fugitives
obtained passports for France under the names of John T.
Hardy and Frank Hardy ; they then paid 201. to the cap-
tain of the Wellington steamer to take them to Boulogne,
where they put up at, the Bath Hotel. Tho officer pro-
ceeded no farther than Dover, hut information reached I
him that the brothers had gone to Havre by St. Omer,
when the elder brother, being conscience-stricken, deter-
mined to return to Northampton, and was taken into cus.
tody in this town a few days since. The younger Haslock
continued his flight by
diPgence to Rouen. We have been
informed that Mr. R. ‘Vhitworth and Rutliven, formerly a i
Bow street officer, are now on his track, and are confident '
of securing him,--Northampton Herald.
MUNSTER PROVINCIAL MEETING.—The si r,o'
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natures to the requisition convening this great meeting
continue to pour upon us in sach numbers, that we are
greatly inconvenienced to find room for them. Besides
the eix double columns in our first page, we have still
many hundred names to ....cid, received last night and to-
day.—Cork Southern Reporter.
WATCH YOUR WORDS.—The hoard raised
round St. Bartholomew's Church, which is so constructed
as to leave but a narrow passage between Threadneedle-
street and the Rotunda of the Back, now converted into
the Dividend Pay.°ifice, is complained of as being in its
present state a public inconvenience. Besides, light being !
e-tircl; "T'l'll, db; ee e grins, elesv. ,it s`ro. di fa:;:itit..:
for the depredations of the class of thieves who never fail
to watch the Bank at the periods of the year when the
dividends are in course of payment,