The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-19 00:00:00

He had no sooner said the words than the collision
took place. The first person he saw after the col-
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lision was the breaksmn, and they thought it would
be best to stop the traffic on the down line. He
went to the Mancettej crossing and turned the
danger signal on. He called up the man who lived
there, made him dress, and told him not to allow
any train to pass. He then returned to the scene
of the accident. Several persons had assembled,
and were endeavouring to extricate the dead. He
recollected the anxiliary white light before reach-
ing the Atherstone station, and he saw two others
between Tamworth and Atherstone. Two were on
the same side of the line. He had no instructions
at what station he should stop when he started:
A Juryman.—Could you not have shunted at
Pol esworth.

Witness said he durst not shunt at Polesworth ;
there was no signal to protect him while he did so.
There was no particular time to leave Tamworth,
but he was understood to make the best of his way.
By Mr. Baxter.—The Irish tattle trains are sup-
posed to travel in the night, but they do not always
arrive at their destination before morning.
A Jaryman.—lf the line had not been in a slip-
pery state could you have expected to reach Nun-
eaton before the train came up ?
Witness—Well, it would have been a tight run,
sir—a very tight run—but I should have made a
hard run for it. It would take 35 minutes to run
from Tamworth to Nuneaton.

Charles Clarke, stoker of the goods train, gave
corroborative evidence. The rails were slippery
on Thursday night, and he went to fetch some
sand at Tamworth. When he returned the train
was moving.

The inquiry was at this stage of the proceedings
adjourned. It hail been suggested that Moorcroft,
who was present during the inquiry, should be re-
quested to leave the room, but the objection was
overruled by the coroner on the ground that Moor-
croft ought to hear what was said against him, so
that an opportunity might be afforded to him to
clear himself.

LATEST PARTICULARS.

The number of deaths resulting from the fata.
accident at Atherstone has now been increased to
ten, Michael Vaughan, who received some very
severe injuries, having died early yesterday morn-
ing. He was between 60 and 70 years of age, his
skull and ribs were fractured, and the lungs seri-
ously injured. The other sufferers, viz., Patrick
Fay, drover; Wm. Hill, George Smith, and James
Bowker, Post-office clerks ; though very severely
injured, still survive, and hopes are entertained that
they will eventually recover. Bowker, one 'of the
Post-office clerks, had but just recovered from the in-
juries received in a former collision, and had but a
few days since received from the Post-office the com-
pensation which was awarded to him. As will
be seen from the report of the proceedings at the
inquest, the nature of the injuries received must in
the majority of cases have caused almost instanta-
neous death, and some difficulty was experienced
in identifying several of the bodies owing to the
severe wounds inflicted about the head. One of the
drovers could only be identified by the clothes which
he wore. Although called drovers, the deceased
were not all really of that class of persons ; with
the exception of two, they were dealers and owners
of cattle. They were principally f,•om Ireland, ant
the cattle, which were lean, were intended to be
taken to Norwich Market, for sale to the feeders.
The evidence already given at the inquest shows
that some most culpable negligence must have
taken place on the part of the station-master, the
driver, or the signal-man. At the present state of
the inquiry it would not be right to express any
opinion upon this point. The driver of tke mail
train swears most positively that he saw no " red"