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COP Y of a LETTER from WILLIAM
lJ _ _ _ COURTNEY, Esq.

To Mr. THOMAS PROUT, 229, Strand, London.
Church Farm, Barton Stacey, near Andover Railway
Station, Hants, October 26, 1844.

Sir,—l cannot help expressing my astonishment in the effect I have
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LIVERPOOL RACES.-FRIDAY (CONCLUDED).

The Grosvenor Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 5 ft, with 30 added.
One mile and three-quarters. (9 Subs.)
Lord Eglinton's Plaudit, 4 yrs, Bst 41b walked over
The Bentinck Testimonial Handicap of 15 sovs each, 5 ft,
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nearly a mile and a half. (25 Subs., 15 of whom de-
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Mr. B. Green's The Conjuror, 3 yrs, 7st 10...(W. Abdale) 1
Mr. Meiklarn's Inheritress, 6 yrs, Bst 81b 2
Mr. Maher's Highwayman, 4 yrs, 7st Sib 3
The following also started, but were not placed :—Lord
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6 yrs, 7st 71b—Lord Eglintou's Plaudit, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b
Mr. Worthington's Lancashire Witch, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Mr.
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ACCIDENT ON-THE EASTERN
COHN TIES.R AI LWAY.
On Saturday
evening tl) collision of a most alarming
character took place at Stratford, between the Ipswich up-
train, which was due at about four o'clock, but which was
twenty minutes behind its time,-and a train of trucks
from-Romford. The. Ipswich train had hardly been a
minute alongside the platform, preparatory to the pas-
sengers leaving the carriages, when the driver of the
Roinford train came upoil the same line of rails, and,
regardless of the signal made to him not to advance,
drove his engine, ac it is asserted, with unchecked speed
against the hindmost carriage of theolpswich train. The
total destruction of the carriage first struck was the
work of a moment; and then ensued a scene that
bates description and would, indeed, be but too painful
if we attempted to depict it. In the words of one of the
witnesses, "Bodies were, lying" in. all -directions, slime
with- legs broken, others with' ribs fractured, faces
horribly cut and disfigured, feet crushed, and
in some instances half cut off, and others
apparently dead." As soon as the servants
of the company could collect themselves they ren-
dered the utmost assistance to the unfortunate passen-
ger; Mr. Richardson, the station clerk, being particu-
larly active. It was foundthat between thirty and forty
persons had been injured, and anengine was immediately
sent off to the terminus at Shoreditch for carriages to
remove the sufferers to the,London Hospital. The car-
riages arrived in a few mintites, and a surgeon with them,
who proceeded to render his professional assistance with
the greatest zeal. In ave 1`• short time all that were in
any way injured were ta ‘ri to the London Hospital,
with the exception of so, e who preferred to be sent
home. When the alarm li . somewhat subsided, it was
found that the engine bringing the trucks had run into.
the last carriage in_ tiOli:..sgenger train, which was a
second-clus carriage, and completely shattercd it, and
the buffers of a first-class carriqge had forced them-
selves into a second-class carriage, in which several
persons had their legs fractured. The concussion was
so great as to do considerable damago to every
carriage, and scarcely a passenger escaped without
some injury. Providentially, no lives were lost ;
but we cannot undertake to say. that several of the
accidents may not yet have a fatal termination. As
soon as the distressing calamity occurred, information
was sent to Mr. Roney, the secretary, who was at Cam •
bridge, by means of the electric telegraph, and that
gentleman, immediately on receiving the melancholy in-
telligence, started for Stratford in a special train. Mr.
Mosely, the manager of the traffic, and Mr. Samuel, the
resident engineer, in the meantime rendered every
assistance.

Our reporter waited upon Mr. Roney, together with
the representatives of other journals, and was received
by that gentleman with the greatest courtesy, unlike the
generality of the head officials at railways. lie ex-
pressed himself desirous of affording the press every in-
formation, and for that purpose he called all the wit-
nesses of the accident together, and permitted them to
give, in detail, what they individually knew of the un-
fortunate transaction.

As the statements made by the witnesses furnish the
only authentic account of the affair, we will proceed at
once to give them in their own words:—
Mr. Richardson was the first person called and ques-
tioned. He said—l am the station clerk at Stratford.
The up train, which leaves Ipswich at one o'clock, was
due a few minutes before four o'clock, but it did not
arrive until twenty minutes after its time. We had had
a cattle train up from Colchester, which was just cleared
off into the sidings, when the passenger train came up.
The bell was rung, as is usual, on the arrival or de-
parture of a train, and I came out of the office on to the
platform, and saw the passengers getting in and out of
the carriages. The train was about to start for London,
and I had ran down the train to find the guard, when,
on looking round, I saw the engine of a train cf trucks
coming towards the passenger train. I then shouted
out to the engine driver of the passenger train to go on,
and ran towards him. As I came up I saw the
fireman of the engine falling to the ground. I then ran
to the carriages to see what had happened. There
was a vacancy between the engine of the trucks train
and the passenger train. One second-class carriage
was lying in ruins on the line. I then commenced
picking up those who were injured. I saw a man lying
on the platform with his leg nearly cut off ; he was one
of our men, and there was another of our men with his
toe cut off. There were many others lying about, all
more or less injured. There were in all between 30 and
40. I should think the greater number injured were
those in the last carriage, which had been put on at
Romford. The train was composed of an engine and
tender, two horse-boxes, a coach truck, a first-class car-
riage, several second and third class carriages, and an-
other horse-box, a luggage van, and the second-class
carriage I have spoken of as being destroyed. I after-
words went with the engine to the terminus to obtain
some carriages to take the injured parties to the hospi-
tal and obtain medical aid. The regular signal that a
train was then at the station, and any other coming up
was to stop, was given. The signal is 300 yards from
the station ; it can be seen the same distance on the
other side, and, therefore, if the driver of the engine at-
tended to it, there was time to stop before he got to the
station. The signal known as Halle's, or the fan-signal,
was down, denoting that there was a train then at the
station. Had no obstruction existed the fan would have been
up. At that station there is a foreman, porter, a goods
man, a signal and point man, an under locomotive fore-
man, and a lad about eighteen years old, who does
errands and other work. At the time the collision took
place the signal man was attending to the cattle-train,
and the lad, Unwin, had been appointed to watch the
signal. I had told the signal man to attend to the cat-
tle-train, and had sent the lad in his place ; I saw him
there, and he never left it till the train from Ipswich
arrived, and then he pulled down the fan, the signal for
no other train to approach, and left it to attend to the
train. The signal is raised by windlass, and therefore
could not act of itself.
Mr. Kitson, the foreman of the locomotive de-
partment, said : In consequence of a communication I
received, I came on to the platform immediately after
the accident, and saw a lady, who was being I-d
away. I found the engine of the passenger train
forced ten or fifteen yards from the carriages. As I
ran along I saw two persons severely injured : one
said his leg was broken. The hindmost second-class
carriage was broken all to pieces. After sending to
London for carriages, we got the injured passengers into
this room as quickly as possible. There were five horses
in the boxes, and none of them were injured. A great
number of the passengers were very slightly injured, and
were enabled to proceed to London. None of these
were taken to the hospital. Neither of the engines got
off the line. The delay in the arrival of the train was
occasioned by its being heavily laden. It was only about
seven minutes behind its time. The driver who drove
the engine of the train from Romford is now in custody.
He says he shut off the steam, and that the signal was
wrong, that it was up instead of down. his name is
William Clare ; the engine he drove was numbered 34,
and he had been about twelve months in the company's
service. The signal was down after the accident. All
the fans were opened. The signal consists of four pieces
of wood fan-shaped and of different colours ; when it is
intended for a train to stop, all the fans are down or
opened, and are so large that they are very easily dis-
cerned.

By the desire of the secretary we visited the signal
and saw it worked, and we must state that if the fans
were down when the accident happened, the driver of
No. 34 engine is in our opinion criminally responsible
for any lives that may be sacrificed by this untoward
event. On our retnrn, Edward Unwin, a most important
witness, was called in, and he stated as follows:--I am a
messenger at this station, and am eighteen years of age.
I was at -the signal post when the passenger train came
up, and I put down the signal to give notice that a train
had arrived. I do not know what time it was, as I
could not see the clock, but the train was twenty minutes
behind its time. I was at the signal post to pull up the
signal for the passenger train when the cattle train was
cleared. When I left the signal to go to the station
I left three fans down ; at that time the road was
clear. I did not see anything coming up.
I could state on my oath the fans were down
when I left the signal to come to the station. On my
arrival at the station I locked the doors, and then came
out on the platform,
when I heard Mr. Richardson hal-
lowing out. I looked down the line, and saw a train
coming in. lie shouted for the passenger train to go
on, and ran up, and then ran back, and called " Stop !"
to the other party. Mr. Richardson set me to stop at
the signal, and told me to turn round and look towards
the train coming
dowe the line, and I did so.
Mr. Roney, the secretary, here informed our re-
porter that the following persons were in custody :
William Clare, the driver of engine 34 ; William Quen-
lin, the stoker ; Thomas Green the signal-man ; and an
under foreman,
named Nicholson. Ale. Samuel, the re-
sident engineer, gave them into custody, as they ap-
peared to be the four persons through whose negligence
the accident had taken place. The secretary subse-
quently stated that he should release Green, the signal-
man, as it appeared he hadbeen employed by the station-
clerk to attend to the cattle train. The men are now
locked up at the Bow station.
Mr. George Burford, a linen-draper, residing at Strat-
ford, attended by request of the secretary, and made a
statement that becomes of vital importance, in the event
of any of the sufferers dying, inasmuch as it confirms
the more material portion of the lad Unwin's statement,
and tends to strengthen the charge of culpability against
the driver of No. 34 engine. 1-1
—e said—l was coming
over the railway bridge at the Point, when I saw a pas-
senger train coming up, and directly it came up the
signal was let down. I had not left the bridge thirty
yards before up came another train. I took no notice
then of the signal, and went straight home, I heard of
the accident afterwards. I am aware how important
what I have stated is; but it is the truth. When I heard
the other train I thought it was one coming down. I
could not have imagined that one would be coining up so
quickly after the other. I heard the man Clare say to
Mr. Kitson that the signal war up, and when they saw
the danger they were getting in, then he shut off the
steam, and the stoker put on the breaks.
Mr. Kitson said when he was taking the engine driver
to Bow station, ho said to him. " What have you been
doing," and he said the signal was up.
Mr. Roney observed that the above was all the infor-
mation he could give the press relative to the cause of