The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY CATASTROPHE.

The New York papers, just received, report a
serious accident on the Delaware, Lackawanna, and
Western , Railroad about seven o'clock on the
morning of the third instant, near Paterson, New
Jersey. Twenty-five carpenters left Paterson on
a car heavily loaded with timber for the new bridge
over the Passaic river, near Rutherford Park. The
track is down grade, and it is customary to send
the cars down alone, without any locomotive, the
gravity being sufficient for its propulsion. In attempt-
ing to apply the brake upon approaching a sharp curve
leading to the trestle work carrying the road over the
Paterson and Newark Railway the chain of the brake
broke, and the car dashed around the curve at full
speed, and free from all restraint. The car went
partially round until, when a few feet upon the trestle,
It jumped from the track, and precipitated its load
of human beings and heavy bridge timber in one con.
fused wreck some twenty feet below. The first impres•
sion was that nearly all were killed, and for an instant ac
one stirred. The uninjured, however, one by one jumped
up and proceeded to extricate the wounded from the
ruins. Twenty persons were killed and injured.

Mr. Leonard Edmunds, who commenced an action
for libel against the Treasury. Lords, has been arrested
at the suit of the Crown for the award declared against
Mm.

TOWER HILL INDUSTRIAL AND POOR SCHOOLS.—
The first stone of the new schools will be laid by her
Royal Highness the Princess Marguerite of Orleans, on
Tuesday, June 21st, at 3.30 p.m. The Very Rev. Canon
Gilbert, D.D., will officiate.

The remarkable probate suit in which Dr. Goss,
the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool, is the plaintiff,
again came before Lord Penzance yesterday, and, after
some further evidence had been taken, the hearing was
once more adjourned.

CHARLES DICKENS.—Sir John Bowring writes to
the Daily News illustrating Charles's Dickens's accuracy
of observation. Sir John wrote to Dickens pointing out
that a passage in his description of opium smoking was
incorrect. In reply Dickens said he had personally visited
the docks and had only described the opium smoking
as he had seen it practised there by Chinamen.
UNANIMITY OF THE IRISH PEOPLE.—Some friends
of the National Lifeboat Institution in Dublin are now
organising a national bazaar in aid of the support of the
twenty-eight lifeboats the institution has placed on the
Irish coast at an expense of about £16,800. The appeal
has met with an unanimous response—people of every
grade, Protestant andßoman Catholic, appear to be anxi-
ous to promote this humane undertaking in every way
in their power, and it is expected that the Irish Grand
National Bazaar to be held in the course of the present
year at Dublin will be a great success. The ladies of the
different towns and counties have taken up the matter
with great energy ; and, of course, upon their continued
efforts depends in a great measure the success of the Irish
Great Lifeboat Bazaar.

FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE DEE.—Since Saturday
two more fatal accidents have occurred on the Dee, near
Chester. On Tuesday evening about 7 o'clock a horse-
breaker, named Henry Sidebotham, attempted to cross the
river at shallow water, expecting that the horse would
swim. A few yards from Flintshire both the man and the
horse were drowned. An inquest was held on Wednes-
day, when a verdict of accidental death was given. On
Wednesday, at noon, a party consisting of Mr. and Mrs.
Alsopp, Mrs. Nicholson, her nurse, and children, left
Chester in a pleasure boat to take a trip up the river.
Having gone two miles, they went on shore to take re-
freshments. Mr. and Mrs. Alsopp got into the boat again;
on Mrs. Nicholson getting in the boat capsized. Mrs.
Nicholson was saved, but Mr. and Mrs. Alsopp were
drowned. The nurse and children did not get into the
boat. The bodies have been recovered. The deceased
lived at Rock Ferry, near LiverpooL

HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday evening an
inquest was held at Biggleswade, Bedfordshire on the
bodies of Thomas Baston, carpenter, and Ann Larman,
who were killed upon the Great Northern Railway on
the previous night. The pair were attempting to cross
the line near the station about midnight, but were checked
by the passing of a local luggage train. They stood on
the down line metals to wait until they could pass, and
were caught by a fast Manchester luggage train which
runs through without stopping. The driver's attention
was attracted by some breken glass flying in his face ; the
train was stopped, and one of the lamps was found
smashed and covered with human hair and blood. The
party who went in search found some fragments of female
apparel, then a woman's hand, and further on her head,
ghastly, and completely severed from the trunk.
A little further on the mangled corpse of the man was
found, with the skull stove in and the feet cut off. The
remains of the woman's body were scattered in all direc-
tions, but were collected as nearly as possible and placed
in the porter's room. The jury returned a verdict of
accidental death, and advised precautions to make the
level crossing less dangerous. The deceased woman lived
in the locality; Baston's relatives reside at Oxford.
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