The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-01 00:00:00

SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE GREEN-
WICH RAILWAY.

An accident resulting in serious injury to several per-
sons occurred on Tuesday evening on the Greenwich
branch of the North Kent Railway, arising from some
defect in the self•acting points, just Waldo the Green-
wich station.

The 8.35 p.m. train from Lor
..don on Thursday night
ran as usual into the Green-Wich down platform, and
started on the return jer.rney for London at 9.5 p.m.
In the ordinary course, this train should have crossed on
to the up line by tine self-acting points, but owing to
some temporary (iefect iu those points the train, instead
of crossing on 'co the up line, continued its course up
the down and on arriving within 150 yards of the
Deptford station, Caine into violent collision with the
8 50 p•'.n. down train from London, then running from
Deptford into Greenwich. Happily neither of the
trams were at full speed or the consequences must
have been awful. The force of the concussion was
so great that several carriages were shattered, and
almost all the passengers severely shaken or other-
Rise hurt. The drivers and stokers of both Engines are
more or less severely injured, and several passengers
have received fractures and contusions of a serious cha-
ractix. The driver of the up train, William Watson,
was not seriously injured, having escaped with severs
c3r.itnsions cn the right arm, anti some flesh wounds
about the face. His stoker, a man named Castles, was
so terrified at the moment of the collision that he jumped
cloar over the parapet, a depth of 25 feet, into the street
below, sustaining bad injuries on the pelvis, and being
otherwise so much hurt as to necessitate his immediate
removal to the hospital. James Ward, driver of the
down train, was terribly maimed, having sustained a
compound fracture of the lower jaw and a severe scalp
wound, in addition to which his nose is split. John
Barker, his stoker, is suffering from concussion of the
brain and contusions on the head. Both these men are
also in St. Thomas's Hospital. It has been stated that
almost all the passengers in both trains suffered from the
shock.

requesting that every preparat. n m
Intelligence was despatched to St.i,,Thhtobmeasm'
sa rideostopitrael
the
the sufferersmedi c
al
offi , was in waiting to attend upon them. A. nin-
ceive a number of patients, and w
arrived, Mr. Snow, senior surgeon, with
her of persons who were only slightly shaken and bruised
cersu
'einth
received such restorative attention as their ;cases ide-
roanded and departed ; while those suffering from mdre
serious casualties were conveyed at once to the accident
ward, where the followinc, in addition to the railway
Mr. George Duy
crapiovs above noted, stieremain :
compound fracture of the left le
Mr. Robert Somme • g,
Cottage-row,
ckinck-, solicitor, of New York,
rs, lighterman, of .
Bermondsey, severe wound on skull over the right orbit,
and compound fracture of the nasal and frontal bones.
Henry Snell, of 15, Britannia-street, Gray's-inn-road,
contusion of the back of neck.
Thomas Button, dock labourer, of 22,
Bishomate, contusion of chest.
Mr. Dayckinck is an American citizen, and was en
the point of sailing from England by the Persia. He is
progressing favourably, and,
being a young man, will,
is hoped, soon be able to undergo removal. New-street,
Mr. Summer's case is more doubtful, his age approach-
ing 60.
Neither of the other cases in the hospital are supposed
to be serious, excepting perhaps those, of Ward, the
engine driver, and Castles, the stoker.
In addition to those removed to the hospital, casualties
occurred to Mrs. Edwards Roberts, of Blackheath i
Mrs. Elizabeth Price, of Bridge-street, Greenwich ; and
Mr. William Lloyd, of Greenwich, Ail these were
removed to their own honaß.