The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-30 00:00:00

ACCIDENT ON THE ERIE IMILWAY.

An express train ran into a luggage train on the Erie
Railway on Wednesday, July 14, and killed from ten t°
fifteen persons. The circumstances of this accident are*
noteworthy example of carelessness on the part of
employes. The luggage train was waiting in a siding. The
express was some twenty-five minutes behind time, whet/
the engineer of the freight train, awaking from a cony
fortable nap, and presuming, it is supposed, that the
express had gone by, reached out and pulled the•
throttle of his engine, and the train slowly moved
forward on to the main track. The engine bad Pit
reached the "frog," and stood partially on the main track,
diagonally to it, when the express train rounded tile
curve at a tremendous rate, and quick as lightnios
crushed into the freight engine, completely shatteria
the two locomotives, and " telescoping " the forward CO
on the passenger train into a heap of ruins. The
passenger locomotive was overturned, scattering the
fire through the splintered wreck, which speed
ignited, and blazed up into a brilliant conflagratioe•
The engineers and firemen on both trains escaped with
very slight injuries, although how they escaped thel
are themselves unable to tell. The passengers in the reAr
passenger cars at once rushed out, and, aided by the hand!
on the freight train, endeavoured to rescue the injured Ps44l.
sengers from the burning wreck. The fire had gained sue"
headway that it was useless to attempt to check it, there
being no water near. The rear cars of the train were
pushed back one by one, three of them being saved by th'u
,
means. The fire meanwhile communicated to the deo"
and telegraph office, which were likewise burned red
the ground. The heat became so intense that it VII"
impossible to render much assistance iu extricating the
dead and wounded, and they were, therefore, left t°
perish in the flames.

It is rumoured that Mr. Young, of the Para%
Light and Mineral Oil Company, has offered £450,000 fur
the Island of Arran.
A considerable extent of moor lying ill "e in"h
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triangle formed by Pickering, Scarborough, and Whitby:
has been burning since Sunday. The moor is the pro'
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party of Sir Harcourt Johnstone, M.P. It is believed t a
the was wilfully caused, and two men have been arresic'
and committed for trial at the ensuing York Assizes for ille
offence.
THE LITROAN RIOTS.—The magisterial iniretti;,
gation into the cause of the riots at Lurgan on the ,
instant, which was adjourned since Monday, was resun3e
on Thursday. The inquiry has now lasted six days- rrt.,ll°
court investigated the attack on Faloons-row,
furniture of the Catholics was taken out and burned.
WAS HE DRUNIO—Tu the Cork Police-court, °in
Monday, Head-const able Walsh put forward .1"°/1.0
Morrissy, charged with being drunk and riotous lg
Shandon-street, on Sunday night ; also with assault
td
and resisting the police. One of the police lost his sNo
on the way to Bridewell. The Mayor (to the prisoner);
where tP°
Were you drunk ? Prisoner : Well, sir, as near Its I cull'.
say, for fear I'd tell a lie, I had fourteen or fifteen Pin to
(Laughter.) Prisoner was ordered to find bail or g°

gaol for a month.
TIIE NAILERS' STRIKE IN WORCESTERSIIIRO•";
Bromsgrove, Thursday. The strike of the 011;ent
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engaged upon " thousand" work has terminated, 11Lb54.,-;
lasted nine weeks. After the conciliator intervi%,
between the masters and the men already ryeportAtyt;
nailmasters agreed to adopt the list of 1864, sin3Plifle the
facilitate the reckoning of the nails. Nearly All al
operatives have already resumed their work. It is needlett"-
.',,
say the result has given great satisfaction throughou
district.
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PRIZEFIGHTING.—The Cheshire magistrate° "
police appear determined to put down prizefig,htinK
that county, This week, at the Daresbury (11e:o
Warrington) Petty Sessicns, before Sir Richard fdr°:
and other magistrates, Thomas Houghton, Wrii;eu:
Winstanley, Charles Woods, James Hacking, and 1'
White, all of Liverpool, were charged with being R,,'
cerned in a prizefight at that favourite resort of the
Fiddler's Ferry, on the 13th inst , and in which J°l'
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Mather and Patrick Norton were the principals. -p
men, with the exception of White, were bound over to kee;
the peace for twelve months in their own recognist cao
£lo,rf and two sureties of £5 each. The defendants 101
.-nuch surprised by the length of time they were to be lted.
over, and asked for it to be reduced, but the bench reAP-116
to accede to the request, and strongly condernlie,i;tter''
offence the men had committed, and expressed their" the
mination to repress such exhibitions. At the time °foecl
fight there was a crowd of some 200 persons asseinw;te;
and the police of the district made a raid upon them
75 rounds had been fought. They succeeded in If
bending the principals, who, with one of the "°°c°. 3:8•I
were bound over in heavy sums by the Warrington yep{
:rates to keep the peace for six months. Nine other -030
police, '
were apprehended by the Runcorn and 011011 i-lot,
Widnes force, and thesewere also bound over for a grad ed
period. Eighteen men have, therefore, been apPrebtbill,'
`or being concerned in the affair, and it is hoped thobttire
example will have the effect of preventing any Cu-

similar exhibitions. 0
THE SPORTING PARSON.— On hunting Ans ;jet!

urned 50, he affects the cross-barred linen Ueeker.,,ciiicli
that gentlemanly but apoplectic-looking bandage 6rot,
was the appropriate bequest to his subjects of the,01:111
gentleman in Europe. He wears with this a' 1::;003
skirted grey coat, and sometimes, but not alwaYe, "a r
tops. He is not, generally speaking, a very hard eela:
but he knows the country, and mostly has a elec:rt the.
horse, who contrives to bring him into a good Place - yose
end. After dinner you don't, as a rule, find Ilira e
i 33 3f varied conversation or extensive reading. 13ut:
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very likely to shew a good vein of humour, and i 9 a 1111
sure to be a man on whose common sense you reg-,'rtee et
It has, indeed, never been observed yet to what an rare
field-sports tend to develop common sense. yet it 0 tbip
to find a man who is a good sportsman in v.'l2ol76ead,
valuable quality is wanting. Such a clergyman' l'epiclot°
ingly, is very often useful in his parish, though t5-sisli
coming under the designationof an active or zealous P-00
priest. He contents himself with the usual routine• be is
sermons, like his port, are sound and soporific ; and, rot
very popular in his village, where his bonhomie 5.- „a
kindness make him a favourite with man, wou'Arj't• ye,
child. In politics of course he is Conger°,e
-1 to
desiring no change for himself, and unahlbedy
believe, therefore, that it can do good to ° Yee P
else. Resigned about Dissenters, regarding, o
the age
species of " foot people " whom it is difficult to 8133, of
in the manufacturing districts or the neighbour
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large town ; charitable and indulgent to all eh'itioo
desiring always, if he have any professional °ID; sell
at all, to be called " moderate ; " he regards ilea.
as a country gentleman by nature, and a Cdoellil
man by position ; and thinks that if a Pars°ll 1198
bealoge
hunt, it can only be for one of three reasons—either
he can't afford it, which is a good reason; or_ul7ti
he can't ride, which is a bad reason, as casting d‘vertreno
his gentility; or, worse than all, because he has
_urboor
views," which endanger the peace of the neiglihu,ry and
He has a vague idea that the Church and the gen: 00
the hounds are all linked together somehow in °lle/Afro°
mysterious system, which, if we accept the Argun` I fi '
Aesigu yvos_eytvl7 contemplated-,!fr-
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