The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-14 00:00:00

THE. TERRIBLE RAILWAY COLLISION
AT BARNSLEY.

\Ye were enabled to eke a brief report of the railway
accident on Monday night, near Barnsley. In the Leg
Mercury we find some additional particulars of the dis-
aster. The collision occurred at the Stnirfoot Station, and
on the rails of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
, shire CoMpansr. The Mercury says :—Shortly after
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o'clock in the afternoon, a number of goods trucks, which
were being di-hilted at a siding in Barnsley, got looser
and ran clown the inelin€ to Stairfoot—two miles lis;
tant—and dashed into a pmsenger train from BarnslueJ
to Sheffield, which bad just drawn up to ti
platform. The results of the collision were 111°5d
frightful. Two of the passenger carriages all
the brake-van were smashed to pieces, and the line
was torn up for a considerable distance. Some One
elapsed before the passengers could be rescued, and whell
this was done, it was found that several had been kale!
on the spot, and that twenty were seriously injured. There;
being no telegraphic communication between Stairfoot toru.
Barnsley; n good deal of time was lost in obtaining proper
assistance. As soon as the news spread, special trains were
sent•to convey the injured to Barnsley. Superintendent
Sykes and a staff of police-cc mstables belonging to the Barn'
ley division also rendered assistance at the scene of the aecr'
dent. The dead and dying were conveyed to the Crag
Keys and Keel Inn, close by the station. Any list of
names is at present very imperfect, but the following are
ascertained to be amongst the dead : John Stopparth'
Hemingfield ; William Allerton, sexton, Darfield;
Richmond, mechanic, Chapeltown. The bodies
of eight men and three females have not Yet
been identified. Most of the dead belong tn. the neigir
bourhood. Amongst those seriously injured are
Albert Lomas, Tingle-bridge; John Beaumont, sPt
merchant, Wombwell ; William Whitle, Market Wig
ton ; Sarah Davis, Wombwell ; Robert Greany, Werra'
well ; Richard Parks, Derbyshire ; Mary Elizabeth
Birkinshaw, Barnsley ; Priscilla Wordsworth, Mor
totuley ; Richard Winslow, West Melton ; Joseph
Moorshead, Hemingfield ; Ralph Winslow, East
Melton ; William Stanford, East Melton ; and
Joseph Sutcliffe, Manchester. T.Tp to ten o'clock
the line had not been cleared. It is feared that the des4
will be somewhat increased. As speedily as possible a
number of medical men were on the spot. Tile
work performed by these gentlemen and their assistants
was of an exceedingly painful nature. In four or five
cases amputation of fractured and mutilated limbs were
made up to midnight. The majority of those now dead
were removed from the wreck alive, huge bonfires being
lighted to assist the explorers in recovering the bodies and
passengers. One young woman, at present unknown, had
both feet cut off, whilst very many were seriously
injured about the head. By a melancholy coincidence
the accident happened in the immediate neighbourhood of
the Oaks Colliery, where four years ago, on this thirteenth
of December there occurred the disastrous explosion of gas
which led to the loss of between three and four hundred
of the men employed in the colliery.