The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-07 00:00:00

GREAT RAILWAY DISASTER.

A railway collision of more than ordinarily destructiv
• character occurred a few days since on the Baden Rail-
way. A mixed passenger train from Constance entered
the station at Murg at four o'clock in the afternoon. An
engine and tender from Waldshut proceeding to Bale fol-
lowed at some distance. When the passenger train had
entered the Murg station the usual danger signals were set,
but the driver of the engine which followed, who had, it is
said, been drinking, did, not notice them, and ran into the
station, where the locomotive dashed into the rear of the
stationary train, and a fearful scene of suffering and death
was at once produced. Three carriages filled with pas-
sengers were completely crushed, the last one bean forced
into that before it. When the smoke and dust caused by
the collision had cleared off it was found that nearly
sixty passengers were more or less buried under the
wreck of the carriages. One young girl was taken
out dead, and twelve others were dangerously injured.
One man had both thighs broken, and died after under-
going amputation a few hours later. One gentleman,
Dr. Ruff, of Waldshut, was mortally hurt, and has since
died. The wounded, nearly thirty in number, were taken
to hotels, where they were attended by surgeons sum-
moned by telegraph from the nearest towns, The towns-
people were so furious at the misconduct of the engine-
driver that it was with difficulty they were restrained
from enforcing Lynch law, but ultimately he was conveyed
to prison to await his trial.

THE LATE ACCIDENT IN SWITZERLAND.
Some further details are published of the late fatal
accident on Monte Salvadore. It appears that Mr.
Royds, accompanied by his sister and cousin, while
ascending Salvadore on the 35th ult., through
some mistake missed the first turn an got on
to the wrong side of the mountain, but scrambled on,
hoping to hit the right path. They pushed on until near
the top, for it was becoming dark, and they thought if
they reached the summit they could then discover the way.
down. Unfortunately, however, there was a perpendi-
cular rock, which the young ladies could not climb, and
Mr. Royds returned to them. They then tried to find
their way down as they had gone up, chiefly by water-
courses, &c. When part of the way down, it then being
quite dark, they thought they saw a cottage, and made
towards it ; it was, however, only a rock. Mr. Royds
was then leading. Up to that time one of the young
ladies had gone first, but, having stumbled, she
had fallen behind. Mr. Royds leaned forward
to try and feel for a path, when the ladies
heard the noise of a slip and a shout ; he
had disappeared, To their calls there was no
response. How the poor young ladies got down they
scarcely know; it was long after midnight when they
reached the hotel. One of them then started with men
and lights to find Mr. Royds. Failing to discover the
spot, some of the /nen returned for the other young
lady, but the body was not found untillsti o'clock next
morning. The batty of Mr. Itoyda w* interred at
Lugano.

THE GREAT FIRE AT FALMOUTH.

The Western Morning News, in its description of the
terrible fire at Falmouth, says ; At about two o'clock on

Sunday morning the'flanies were discovered issuing from
stores at the back of the premises occupied by Mr.
Harvey, grocer, Market-street, and as this part of the
premises was constructed entirely of wood and lath and
plaster, the flames rapidly spread. A dense fog prevailed
at the time, but fortunately the wind was very light. The
' flames having obtained a mastery over several buildings
within a few minutes, messengers were despatched to
request assistance from H. M, S. Ganges, lying in the har-
bour, from the artillery at Pendennis Castle, and the Pen-
ryn and Truro Fire Brigade, and shortly afterwards the
crew of the Ganges, under the command of Commander
Wilson, arrived with their engine. About twenty ar-
tillerymen, under the command of Captain Purdy, with
an engine, the Penryn Fire Brigade, with two engines,
and the Truro fire brigade withe two engines,
also responded to the summons, but in consequence of the
long distance the latter had to travel, and the difficulty
of obtaining eight horses at so earlyan hour, they arrived :
too late to be of any assistance, Great fears were enter- ,
tained that the flames would extend to the opposite side of
the streets, where some hundreds of poor persons reside 1
in tenements in courts ; but although the fire caught the
house once or twice a steady stream of water prevented
much mischief. The folowing property is entirely
destroyed--Mr. A. Geach, draper, house and shop; Mr.
N. Fox, ironmonger, house and shop ; Mr. A. Webber,
. confectioner, house and shop ; Mr. T. Webber, stores
and lofts ; Mr. Twiggs, stores ; Mr. Charles Skinner,
workshop ; Mr. T. Dunstan, workshop ; Mr. John
Richard, workshop ; Mr. Henry Harvey, grocer, shop,
dwelling-house, and stores ; Mr. G. B. Johns, boot and
shoe warehouse ; Mr. Curtis, refreshment-house ; the
premises in the occupatson of Mr. Goodman, currier ;
Messrs. Kelway and Osborne, grocers ; Mr. E. T. Turner,
mercer and tailor ; Mr. Abel! Travers, painter ; and Mr.
Chapman, hair dresser. Almost all the stock is also de-
stroyed. Many poor persons occupying small tenements
at the back of these premises have lost most of their fur-
niture. The West of England office will be the most
affected, and after that the County Fire Office. Policies
are also held in the Phcenix, Caledonian, North
British and Mercantile, anchester, and Scot-
tish Provincial. Altogether about thirty thousand pounds
worth of property has been destroyed, and in this respect
the conflagration of Sunday proved more disas-
trous than that in April 1862, when thirty houses in
High-street were burnt. Only one accident occurred to
the assisters in extinguishing the flames. Mr. Jane, one
of the Falmouth Fire Brigade, was at work under a
burning house when a portion gave way and fell upon
him. He was quickly conveyed to his home.

Le .Nord publishes a Board of Trade order at St.
Petersburg, by which vessels carrying petroleum are pro-
hibited entering the Neva under heavy penalties, unless
they hoist a red flag, as if they were laden with powde.r.
The harbour master is then to take special charge of these
ships.

A petition has been presented to the Irish Court
of Chancery in the matter of Mr. H. M. D'Arcy Irvine,
praying that a commission of lunacy might issue to try
the question of whether the party in the case was a
lunatic. The petition was filed by the brothers and
sisters of Mr. Irvine, who stated that the latter had an
only child, seven years of age, and that he was possessed
of a large property, without any agent at present to take
charge of it. The Lord Chancellor granted the applica-
tion.

At about midnight on Saturday a man named
Henry Yearley, in the employ of Mn Reeves, horse
dealer, of Earley, was returning home from Reading with
a companion, and, when near a gravel pit, met two men
named Blake, father and son. An altercation took place
between Yearley and the elder Blake. The son rushed at
Yearley with a large knife, and stabbed him in the throat
and in the groin. The wound in the throat is serious,
some of the arteries having been severed, but that in the
groin is not dangerous. The Blakes are in custody.
One of the missing vessels which was long ago
given up as lost has been reported to have put back to an
American port. It is the Cerealia, which sailed fur
Queenstown on the 14th of January, a fortnight before
the City of Boston left Halifax. A Norwegian ship. the
Lydia? which had been two hundred days in the China
Sea without being heard of, is also reported in safety in
Java. This news is interesting and important, as sheav-
ing that a ship may be in the Atlantic for wore than ens
hundred days and not be seen by other vessels.

TIGER, OPERATIONS IN INDlA.—Tiger hunting
goes on prosperously this year. In the Central Provinces
two or three gentlemen killed eleven in eight or nine
days. Mr. Charles Havelock, writing to the Neilgherry
Excelsior, from Maal_Koonlia,h, says :--"A fine tigress was
found dead near this ; shewas killed bygetting some of the
quills of a porcupine through her gullet ; they must have
got there while the tigress was eating one of these ani-
mals, I believe that both cheetahs and tigers often lose
their lives in this manner. I have the skull of the
tigress ; the skin was destroyed. A tiger near this a day
or two ago tried to drag a cow out of a cattle shed by her
iy
tyaail;.,much to the disgust of both animals the tail gave

THE GREAT FIRE IN QUEBEC.—The New York
Herald of May 25 gives a few details of the terrible fire
which occurred at Quebec on the previous day, though
the transmission of full particulars was prevented by the
cutting of the telegraph wires by the Fenians. The fire
first broke out, it seems, in a baker's shop
in St. Roche, a suburb of the city; and though
every effort was made to stay its progress, the
troops being called out and houses blown up, it
destroyed more than 100,000 dole. worth of property. A
large number of. houses of the better sort, which had
been rebuilt after the great fire in 1866, were unfortunately
destroyed, and from five to six thousand persons are
rendered homeless. These are being lodged by the corpo-
ration, but it is feared the distress will be very great unless
'ztblic aid is afforded. There were naturally Many
accidents, and two men are reported missing: Two
ships on the stocks were among the property destroyed, '