The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, St PfEMBER 11, 1867.

NOTICE.

C. F. lIANCOCK, SON, & CO.,

JEWELLERS AND SILVERSMITHS TO TIIE QUEEN AITD

PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES,

And by Special Appointment to the principal Sovereigns
and Courts of Europe,
Beg respectfully to stato that their only Address is
33 & 39, BRUTON-STREET,
COR'SER OP BOND-STREET.

AWARDED TO C. F. HANCOCK :
Groat Exhibition, 1851—Council Medal for Originality and
Taste. PalisExhibition,lBss—GoldMedaille d'llonneur.
International Exhibition, 1862—Prize Medal, for groat
Excellence of Design and Manufacture.

COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSAT-
',ANTIQUE, 8, Place Vendome. Paris.
NEW YORK VIA HAVRE AND BREST.
The undermentioned Steamers sail every 14 days as
follows:
From HAVRE-12th and 26th September, 10th and
24th October, 7th and 21st November, sth and 19th De-
comber, 1867.
From BREST-14th and 28th September, 12th and
26th October, 9th and 23d November, 7th and 21st De-
cember, 1867.
NAPOLEON 111. ... Paddle ... 1,200 h-p.
VILLE DE PARIS... ... Screw l,OOO „
PEREIRE". ... do. ... l,OOO „
ST. LAURENT. ... do. ... l,OOO „
EUROPE ... ... Paddle ... 9OO „
RATES OF PASSAGE.
Havre or Brest to New York, Ist Class £33 0 0
It 2d Class l7 0 0
it 3d Class l4 0 0
London: STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and CO.,
8, Austinfriars, E.C.
Havre : W. ISELIN and CO.

WEST INDIES AND THE GULF OF
MEXICO.
THE COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSAT-
LANTIQUE.
Tho LOUISIANE (a) will sail on the 16th September,
for St. Thomas, Havana, and Vera Oniz, with branch lines
from St. Thomas to Guadeloupe, Martinique, Porto Rico,
Cape Hayti, Santiago, and Jamaica; also from Vora Cruz
to Tampico, Matdmoras, and New Orleans. For freight of
goods and rates of passage, and other particulars, apply to
STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and CO.,
8, Austinfriars, E.C.
Letters addressed via St. Nazaire, and posted in London
on the evening of the 14th, will be sent by the above line.

JAPAN, HONG KONG, SHANGHAE, AND
PACIFIC PORTS, VIA PANAMA.

THE COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLAN-
TIQUE ander POSTAL CONTRACT with the FRENCH
GOVERNMENT.

The Steamer IMPERATRICE EUGENIE will sail on
the Bth September from St. Nazaire for Martinique, Santa
Martha, Colon, Japan and China, Aspinwall, Isthmus of
Panama, La Guayra, Porto Cabello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad,
Demerara, Surinam, Cayenne, eze., Callao, Valparaiso, San
Jose, and San Francisco. For rate of freight of goods and
of passage, and other information, apply to
STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and CU,
8, Austinfriars, E.C.

TECTURES on MINERALOGY and GEO-
A LOGY at KING'S COLLEGE, London, are given on
Wednesday and Friday Mornings from Nine to Ten. Those
on MINERALOGY begin Friday, October the 4tb, and ter-
minate at Christmas. Fee, £2 28. Those on GEOLOGY
commence in January and continue till Ju ,e. A sherter
Course of Lectures on MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY is de-
livered on Thursday Evenings from S till 2. These begin
October the 10th And terminate at Emter. Fee, Li 115. Od

Mr. VON A.N T accompanies his Students to the Public
Museums and to places of Geological interest in the country.

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Great Indian Peninsular Railway Company in December
is at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, which, with the
guaranteed interest of 5 per cent. in the first half, will
make 51 per cent. for the rear.

_ .
The Board of trade returns for June indicate the con-
tinuance of a steady export business, the declared value of
our shipments having been .C 15,562,430 or 4 per cent., in
excess of those of the corresponding month of last year,
and 10 per cent. above those of July, 1865. The total
value of our exportations during the first seven months of
the present year has been £103,175,914, being a decrease
of 41 per cent. compared with the first seven months of
1866, and an increase of 17 per cent. on the corresponding
period of 1865. Westminstcr Gazette.

RAILWAY IN7 ELLIGENCE.

OTTOMAN (SMYRNA TO AIDIN).
The report of the directors of this company states
that on the 28th of September, 1866, they announced
to the shareholders the completion of the railway
from Smyrna to Aidin. On the 29th of March last
they reported a final convention with the Govern-
ment for a guarantee of £112,000 a year, commenc-
ing on the Ist of July, 1866, when the railway was
opened throughout for traffic. A few shareholders
having some time in March last addressed a
memorial to the Ottoman Government, a copy of
which had never been furnished to the directors,
they regretted to state that in consequence the
examination of the several accounts sent in was
suspended by order of the Government. The direc-
tors considered that they ought to express their
strong disapproval of proceedings so unusual and
prejudicial; and in that they hoped they would
meet with the full concurrence of the shareholders
generally, whose interests had thereby been jeo-
pardised. The directors also remarked that the ap-
pointment of the committee of inquiry in March
having delayed the passing of the half year's ac-
counts to Dec. 31, 1866, until July 15, at which
dat the report and accounts were unanimously
adopted, no receipts under the guarantee above
stated could be reported on the present occasion.
Since the failure of the company to meet the prin-
cipal of the first debentures, due in May, 1866, the
directors had given unceasing attention to the best
means of providing for the same, and the interest
accruing as well as for the interest and sinking fund
of the second issue and for the general liabilities,
which had resulted in certain heads of agreement
adopted unanimously by a general meeting of share
and debenture holders on the 15th July last. The
traffic for the past half-year showed an increase in
the receipts of £2,575 over the corresponding half
of 1866, but owing to the heavy cost of maintenance
and to £2,950 brought forward, there was a loss of
£5,011 on the working. From the Ist July last the
697 in 1866, and every
returns
perha
wd e
ecko na sgiadienrsatbilY improved, averaging
effort was directed to develope to the utmost the
carrying resources of the railway. To render the
rawas of importance that
the
guarantee should be paid without
arng
arrearse m en
of arrangements effective,
he
further delay, and the directors bad deputed Mr.
Cooke to proceed to Constantinople and Smyrna
with a view to obtain such payment, and to the
adoption of such measures to secure the punctual
discharge of future claims on this account, and the
directors hoped for a successful result to those ne-
gotiations. The capital account showed that
£1,801,901 had been expended, including £175,201
for interest on shares to the 31st December, 1865,
£160,947 for discount, &c., on shares, £199,920 dis-
count on debentures for £588,000, £6,179 loss on
realisation of securities, £9,827 interest on £250,000
debentures, and £11,714 interest on £588,000 de-
bentures, leaving a balance against the company of
£57,824. The revenue account to the 30th of June
showed that £17,296 had been received and £22,307
expended, leaving a balance against the company of
£5,011.

THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.—The Govern-
ment Commissioners have submitted to the Secre-
tary of the Interior a favourable report on the ninth
section of 24 miles of the road and telegraph of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Eastern Divi-
sion. The same was laid before the President, with a
recommendation that the bonds and patents for
lands be issued to the company upon said section of
the road, and the President has issued his order to
that effect. The road is now completed as required
by law for 234 miles west of the state of Kansas,
and has in use 25 locomotives, 16passenger coaches,
8 baggage, mail, and express cars, 118 box cars, 222
flat cars, and 7 boarding cars.
The lowest prices of the leading speculative rail-
ways in the years 1863 to 1866, inclusive, were as
follows : _

1863. 1864. 1865. 1866.
New York Central lO7 109 80 868
Brio ... 65 82 41k 57i
Hudson River B2 107 88 08,i
Reading 771 111 88 9611
Michigan Southern . ,
Cleveland and Pittsburg s6i 90 47 751
Rock Island B2l 8- L 81 90
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Fort Wayne 56 821 77 88
Alton and Terre Haute 29 46 25 29
Do. Preferred
Chicago and Alton .... 57} 65 80 83
Do. Preferred
We learn that at a meeting of the Second Preferred
and Income Bondholders and the Preferred Stock-
holders in the St. Louis, Alton, and Terre llaute
Railroad Company, held on August 15th, pursuant
to notice, a vote was adopted by each class voting
in separate meetings
to authorise the company to
increase its Preferred Stock, so as to enable the
company to pay 20 per cent. in said stock for the
two years' interest in arrears on said Preferred Stock
on the Ist of January, 1867, thus removing this
liability from the company and the common stock,
so that the net earnings under the lease may the
sooner reach the common stock for a dividend, and
which its friends claim
will occur the first sear under
said claim.—Wall-street Journal.

Nitro-glycerine is cutting the Pacific Railroad
through the summit of the Sierra Nevada at the
rate of fifty feet per week, and by midsummer fifty
miles of road will be added to the ninety-four
already in operation at the California end.
Mr. M. Disney, of San Francisco, has invented
an ingenious device, by which railway carriages may
be made self-coupling at all times, while they may
be uncoupled by the mere moving of a lever which
adjusts itself as soon as the cars uncouple. Another
Important advantage is that the instant the advance
car moves, or is thrown from the track, it instantly
uncouples. It is impossible for this coupling to drag
paosseairbiloitffy
offromits thbeecotii
rnacrklg disengaged while the; neither is there any
cars are in direct motion, except by design or break-
age of the link. The contrivance is simple and
cheap—not more costly than the ordinary couplings
—while its advantages of economy, convenience,
other plan in use.
on the San Jose
A and p
rsaacfteict safety al
trrei
wastrial
lot e x ctoe l ebde bgyi
given
ny
Railroad, when it cannot fail to be generally
adopted, if it fulfils all that it professes.

A cargo of railroad iron for the Western Railroad
arrived at Hudson, New York, in the British ship
William Yeo, direct from Biddeford, England.
The heavy rains during the second week in
August damaged the unfinished work on the Troy
and Greenfield Railroad to the extent of $5,000 or
$6,000. A land slide at Athol on Friday, the 16th,
compelled the passengers on the Vermont and Mas-
sachusetts road to change cars there for that day.
Ground will soon be broken for the new railroad
from Montpelier to Portland, Me., and the work
will be pushed forward with energy. IVest Con-
cord, N. 11., has subscribed $lOO,OOO to secure the
road through that town, and Lunenburg is engaged
tame
raising $50,000 for the same purpose.
The distance from, New York to San Frant-'
hun-
If a in shoal=grun at the rate of
twenty miles per bcr,tr,
average rate, it would
dbywaoefs. Chicago,
is three thonsan? -
red nylil
require about se tell ri
Op to accomplish the
distance.

The stockhol?
At% of the Newhaven and North-
ampton Ra
former ..troa,d held their annual meeting at the
!co Wednesday, Aug. 21, awl elected

11. M. Welch, W. W. Phelps, and Charles N.
Yearnans to succeed John Bradley, Wells South-
worth, and Charles Dickerman on the board of
directors. At a meeting of the board Joseph B.
Sheffield was re-elected president and treasurer,
Andrew L. Kidston, secretary, and Charles N.
eamans, vice-president and superintendent.
A NEW PATENT STEAM CAR BRAKE.—A public
trial of the brake lately invented by Wil-
liam Loughridgc, of Paterson, New Jersey, took
place on the Ist instant, on the New Jer,,ey
Central Railroad, in the presence of the
representatives of the leading roads of the country,
and resulted in a complete success. The new
steam brake is operated by a steam cylinder
with 31-inch throw of piston. This cylin-
der is placed under the "foot board" of the
engine. Nothing is seen on the engineer's stand
but a small lever that opens. and shuts a valve,
and a finch pipe, through which the steam
passes into the cylinder. A chain passes around,
pulling on the piston head. This chain goes
through the train, connected by sections of
rods and chains, and the brakes are applied
through the agency of small standards in the centre
of the car. By means of the safety-valve in the
brake cylinder the steam escapes when the pressure
becomes greater than required for the best braking.
By this means the great evil to railroad economy—
of sliding wheels—is obviated. At the trial the
brake showed a power of 3,500 pounds, more than
double that of seven brakesmen exerting their
full strength with the old windlass brake. With
the new brake a train of cars running at a speed of
56 miles per hour can be stopped in 16 seconds, and
in a distance of 624 feet. When running at a speed of
24 miles per hour, the usual rate, it can be stopped
in a distance of 250 feet, and the engineer on the
New Jersey Central Railroad says that he can stop
his train within two (2) feet of any designated
point. At the close of the experiments a resolution
was adopted by the Railroad managers present
strongly recommending the adoption of the new
brake on the railroads of the country, both on the
score of economy and for the safety of the travel-
ling public. The Patent is owned by a Company
whose general agent is T. B. Oakley, 33, Wall-
street, New York, who is now prepared to make
arrangements on advantageous terms with railroad
companies for the right to use the brake.—Wall-
Street Journal.

CAPTURE OF A GANG OF BURGLARS

Yesterday the last, or those who are believed to
be the last, of the notorious gang of burglars who
perpetrated on Mr. Walker, Mr. Johnson, and
others, about a year or two ago, a number of rob-
beries in the city, unparalleled for daring and ex-
tent, were brought before Sir Robert Carden at the
justice-room of the Mansion-house. The prisoners
were three in number—namely, James Evans, a
man of powerful build, who described himself as a
general dealer, of 21, Bushby-street, Mile-end New-
town ; John Robinson, also a general dealer, but
who refused his address ; and John Davis, a gla-
zier, living at 4, Temperance-place, Stepney-green.
These men were charged with loitering in Wood-
street and other places in the city, and with having
unlawfully in their possession a number of skeleton
keys.

Samuel Obee, a city detective officer, said that
about half-past 10 o'clock on Monday night he saw
the prisoners at the corner of Love-lane, Wood-
street. He had previously been instructed by Ser-
geant Moss to;watch their movements. They went
to Silver-street and then to Noble-street. In the
latter street Evans left the two others and went up
to a door by the side of a hoarding. He stood in
the doorway for souse time, while Robinson and
Davis placed themselves in another doorway on the
opposite side. They could see each other distinctly
from these positions. Having remained there two
or three minutes, Robinson and Davis left and went
to Falcon-square, and there they were joined by
Evans, who went after them very quickly. After-
wards they walked through several by-streets, until
at last they canie to Beech-street, Barbican, where
Evans and Davis stood for a while looking at a
house on fire. The whole three then went along
the Barbican and Sun-street to a publichouse at the
corner of Earl-street, Finsbury, which Evans and
Davis entered, Robinson remaining outside. After
a while Robinson went in, and they all sat down and
had some beer. While drinking they seemed to be
showing one another something like a key, but wit-
ness could not exactly say what it was. They came
out together and went along Sun-street and into
Bishopsgate-street, where they remained for about
three minutes in conversation. Passing along
Bishopsgate-street, they proceeded up lloundsditch
into Aldgate, where Evans and Robinson turned
down Church-row, Davis standing at the top of the
passage. There Evans passed something to Robin-
son, who put it in his right hand pocket. Evans
then left, and Robinson joined Davis in the passage.
The next movement was that Evans went into the
Turk's Head publichouse, and that Robinson and
Davis, and another man who came up and spoke to
them, went in and joined him. Witness then got
the assistance of two other constables in plain
clothes, and also that of Inspector White, who hap-
pened to come up at the time, and they entere I the
publichouse and arrested the prisoners. Witness
told them he should charge them with loitering and
attempting to enter warehouses in Noble-street,
upon which Robinson replied that he did not know
what witness meant. Witness repeated the charge
and took Robinson into custody. The prisoners
Evans and Davis were taken into custody by the
other officers. On the way to the police-station
witness put his hand into Robinson's right hand
trousers pocket, into which he had seen him put
something passed to him by Evans in Church-row,
and found three skeleton keys. Nothing was said
then, but when they reached the police-station
Robinson put his hand in his pocket, and, taking out
four more skeleton keys, said, " Here are four more,
you may as well have them all." Another skeleton
key was afterwards found upon him, making eight
altogether. On being asked how be accounted for
the possession of them, he replied that they were given
to him. He refused his address. Witness knew
him as an associate of persons who had been con-
victed of burglary, and Evans was one of the same
gang. He bad followed both Evans and Robinson on
the 26th of last month into the Mile-end-road, and
he had overheard their conversation with another
man whom they met upon the way, and to whom
one of them said, " I suppose we shall soon begin
to do some little business again." The prisoner
Davis gave a false address. Upon Evans was found
£26 16s. 614.
In reply to Sir R. Carden, Evans said he had no
questions to ask the witness.
Robinson acknowledged that he had the skeleton
keys in his possession, but denied that he had been
in the doorway in Noble-street.
The witness repeated he was positive that Evans
was in the doorway in that street, while Davis and
Robinson were in another on the opposite side.
The doorway in which Evans stood was that of
No. 13.

Sir B. Carden (after carefully inspecting the
skeleton keys) said he supposed they would open
any door in London.
The witness replied that they would certainly
open any warehouse door.
Sir R. Carder observed that they had been most
ingeniono
1r contrived. Two of them in particular
"70 re most remarkable specimens of clever work-
manship.
Detective Sergeant Moss said he knew the pri-
soners Evans and Robinson, the former by the name
of " Old Dan Donovan." Evans was what the
police called a " watcher" or outside man, and there
was very little doubt that he had been engaged at
the burglary at Mr. Johnston's, in Hercules-pas-
sage, Threadneedle-street. Witness knew that from
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matter of the city burglaries in hand for a long
thue past, he had had a great deal to do with per-
sons of the prisoners' class. Robinson, who went
by the name of John Benfield, " Dark Charley,"
and " Charley Guiring," was also engaged in the
burglary at Mr. Johnson's. He was tried at the
Criminal Court in April, 1858, fora burglary in the
Hackney-road, and sentenced to nine months' lin-
prisonnient. Witness believed that Evans and
Robinson were the only two now remaining of the
notorious gang of city burglars. He knew nothing
of the prisoner Davis. There was a burglary com-
mitted at Houndsditch in January last, and seve-
ral housebreaking implements were left behind
by the thieves. He now believed that Robinson
and Evans had been both engaged in that burglary.
A bag of the instruments there found was now iu
court. (Witness here opened the bag and took out
several most formidable weapons, the construction
of which he explained.) The first of these was the
one which, he said, Caseley had spoken of as " the
alderman." This was capable of being screwed on
and off in the centre ; it was altogether novel of its
kind, and, along with the other instruments con-
tained in the bag, there was not a door in London
which it would not open. A very peculiar sort of
knife, evidently designed for opening windows, and
also a rope ladder, had been left behind by the bur-
glars at Houndsditch.

Sir Robert Carden observed that the rope ladder
seemed long enough to reach from the top to the
bottom of any house in London. Ile asked whether
the robbers had been disturbed in their operations,
seeing that they had left all their implements
behind them.

The witness replied in the negative. They had
secreted themselves in a stable yard, opened the
back door of a jeweller's shop with skeleton keys,
and stolen a great quantity of jewellery.

The Alderman said that as far as the evidence
now went the prisoner Davis appeared to be a
new hand.

The witness said he had certainly heard of Davis
being engaged in a burglary in the Commercial-
road, but that he could not bring the charge home
to him. Evans, however, had been an outside man
for many years, and also a buyer.

Sir B. Carden asked Evans what he had to say to
the charge.
The prisoner replied that all the last witness had
said was false.

Robinson denied three-fourths of Sergeant Moss's
evidence, and asked him if he was sure that he was
at the Houndsditch burglary.
The sergeant said that he was positive about it.
He was also tolerably sure that Robinson knew
something of a burglary committed in Upper
Thames-street, where a safe had been opened and
£9 abstracted, and where the prisoner was seen on
the evening of the burglary.

Robinson asked the officer if he was not indebted
for his information to a man named Soper.
Sir R. Carden said it made no matter who gave
the information, provided the officer acted on cor-
rect advice.

Sergeant Moss thought it might be as well to
state at once that Soper was not his informant, and
that a great deat deal of his knowledge of the pri-
soners was derived from the watch he had set upon
their movements. lie had gone to the address of
Robinson that morning at 4, London-street, North-
street, Mile-end New Town, and on searching the
drawers a new and costly " lady's companion " and
two combs were found. These apparently bAonged
to a class of goods, a large quantity of which had
been stolen from the shop of Mr. Halle, in Hounds-
ditch. Mr. Halle's premises had been forcibly en-
tered twice—once on the 4th of June, and again on
the 31st of August, 1866. He had now to ask that
the prisoner might be remanded for a week, in order
that further inquiries might be made.
Sir H. Carden, in remanding them until Wed-
nesday, the 18th inst., said the city would indeed be
glad to get rid at last of the remainder of the most
dangerous class of burglars by which it had been
infested for many years.

EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

The Midland Railway, which has hitherto, so far
as its recently opened extensions through the roman-
tic portions of the Peak district are concerned, been
notably free from disastrous accidents, has just been
the scene of one of the most extraordinary colli-
sions which have ever occurred. Indeed the dis-
aster which has now to be reported was a double
one, and has resulted already in the deaths of five
men, besides the slaughter of a considerable number
of cattle and sheep.

It appears that a cattle train, consisting of 27
carriages and trucks, drawn by two locomotives,
passed through the New Mills Station, en route from
Liverpool to Birmingham, about 510 p.m. on Mon-
day, and after a run of between seven and eight
miles reached the Peak Forest tunnel, situated on
one of the highest points of the Derbyshire hills,
about 530 p.m. Having penetrated some distance
into the tunnel, the train was suddenly brought into
collision with a ballast train• which had been drawn
up in the tunnel while certain repairs were being
made. 'rho shock of the collision was so severe that
a break van at the hinder end of the ballast train
was completely shattered, and a little girl named
Vanes, the daughter of a bllcksmith, named
Samuel Vanes, residing at Doveholes, a village near
the southern end of the tunnel, was instantaneously
killed. Fortunantly she was the only occupant of
the van, in which, it is stated, she was allowed to
ride in consequence of having missed a previous
train from Bugsworth to Doveholes. As the
labourers who had been brought into the tunnel
were out of the vans in which they had been con-
veyed and busy at their work upon the line they
also escaped. The effect of the concussion upon the
two engines was to detach them from the cattle
train, and the gradient of the line being at this point
to which they had ascended as much as 1 in 90, the
detached trucks at once commenced a retrogressive
movement. As the train began its backward mo-
tion, three of the occupants of what is termed the
drovers' van, a third class carriage in which the
persons in charge of the cattle and sheep in the
different trucks were being conveyed, jumped out
upon the line as the train emerged from the tunnel,
and two of them, named Charles Jenkins,
cattle dealer, of Sneinton, near Nottingham, and
George Holl, cattle dealer, of 20, Auderton-
street, Birmingham, were considerably injured
by their fall, the former having his face much
bruised and ono instep broken, while the latter
was a good deal injured about the face and
chest. The third man was not hurt, neither
was the guard of the train, who also leaped from
his van when he found it impossible to check the
downward course of the train. Thus, freed from all
control, the cattle train, with its load of frightened
animals, clashed along the incline at a speed increas-
ing every instant until a frightful velocity had been
obtained, and when it had gained a point within a
few hundred yards of the New Mills Station it ran
with a fearful crash into an express train which had
been drawn up near the Beart Bridge signal-box,
awaiting the expected signal from Bugsworth
of
"line clear." The express train had left Manches-
ter at '2O minutes past 5 o'clock, and in the ordinary
course would not have stopped at New Mills ; but as
what is called the block system was being worked
between the New Mills signal-box .and Bugsworth,
and as the line was not signalled as clear when the
express reached the Beart Bridge signal-box, it was
brought to a stand-still. As the train was standing
near the bridge, the driver of the express, hearing
the noise of the run-away cattle trucks, and pre-
sently seeing the train bearing down upon him on
the same line of rails at the rate of something
like fifty miles an hour, at once reversed his en-
gine, with a view of running backwards and lessen-
ing the force of the impending collision. While
he was doing this, the stoker, seeing the im-

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miiience of the danger, managed to jump
from the engine and get clear away, and just as the
driver, whose name was Edward Cooper, had got his
engine in motion, and was preparing to leap from it
the crash came, and the poorfellow was immediately
buried amid a heap of broken timber and shattered
ironwork, which, but a second before, had formed
portions of some of the trucks belonging to the
cattle train. It is by no means an easy task to
describe the scene which instantly presented itself.
Of the 27 trucks and carriages, nearly one-half of
them were smashed into fragments, and in some
cases two or three of the carriages were so splin-
tered and blended that it was impoa-sible to distin-
guish one from the other. Huge pieces of wood
were shivered into minute pieces, the wheels and
axles of the trucks were broken and twisted, the
springs were t away, and bolts, screws, lamps,
and other portions of the fittings of the train were
scattered about in confused heaps. From the frag-
ments of the carriage in which five persons had been
brought back from the tunnel to New Mills two men
were brought out dead, and a third was so seriously
injured that he died the same evening. The names of
these persons are—Robert ileums, butcher and
cattle dealer, Birmingham ; Edward Chambers,
drover, Birmingham ; and a man who had the
appearance of a tramp, and who, from some
printed appeals to the benevolent found upon him,
with the name of Joseph Jones upon them, is sup-
posed to have borne that name. Two other per-
sons were brought out alive, one of them named
John Baker, a drover of Birmingham, who, though
seriously hurt, it is hoped may recover. The express
train, set in motion by the collision, ran back-
ward, but although there was no time for any one
to get to the engine and stop it, the points were
turned so as to put it on the down line and prevent
further collisions, and telegrams were sent to all
the stations between New Mills and Manchester.
The train was, however, brought to a standstill in
running up an incline near Romney, and was after-
wards put on a siding. The passengers in the ex-
press, though much shaken, were none of them
seriously hurt. During the night, by great exertion
the line was so far cleared that one line could be
worked through the Peak Forest tunnel, and both
lines atNewMills cleared. Two signalmen who were
in the signal box at New Mills had a narrow escape,
several of the cattle trucks being hurled against the
box, which was partially destroyed, but fortunately
neither of the signalmen were injured. Yesterday
morning a fifth man, named Wheeler, of Birming-
ham, died from the effects of the injuries he sus-
tained. The bodies await an inquest.