The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-20 00:00:00

AN OMNIBUS AT Cit,
of Poyntzfield, has succeeded in

&RTY !—Major Munro
!)li3hing an orrinibus to

run betwixt Inverness and Cromarty.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON TIIE BOLTON AND
MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—On Saturday last a most
rending occurrence took place at the above railway. It aa
pears that part of the line passes through Chequer-bark, in
the township of Westhoughton, and intersects 'a field belong-
ing to a respectable farmer named Woods, of Westhoughtou,
from which it is fenced off on each side. There is an . in-
clined plane on this part of the line, of great declivity. About
six o'clock on the above evening, Mrs. Woods went to the
field in question, carrying her infant daughter, nine montlia
old, in her arms, in order to drive home the cows. She-had
crossed the railway, and was standing at the fence on one side
of it, as a train of four carriages laden with ashes for the re •
pairs of the road was descending the inclined plane, at the
rate of between 25 and 30 miles per hour, the engineer
(Moses Williams) being on the third carriage: At this titra
a cow in that part of the field which is on the other side -of
the line was is the act apparently of forcing its way through
the fence. Mrs. Woods saw this, and she endeavoured to
cross the line towards the cow at the very moment that the
train was approaching.- Of course to stop the latter was out of
'the question; Mrs. Woods was struck by the foremost en-
gine, and hurled a distance of some 20 yards, after which the
train passed over her. The child was knocked out of her
arms, and alighted a few yards from its unfortunate.mother,
having escaped the wheels of the carriage. A son of Mrs.
Woods was, at the time of the accident, working in an ad-
joining field; and suddenly missing his mother, whom he
had a moment before seen at the fence, he ran to the spot,
when he discovered her mangled body weltering. in blood, with
one arm and a leg severed from the, trunk, being attached
thereto merely by a little of the muscle. She was speechless
and motionless. The distracted young man alarmed his father
and two or three brothers, and they removed the unfortunate
woman to the field which she had just before-left, but she died
on the way. The 'chill was found to be much injured, and it
also died in a few minutes. An inquest was held over, the
remains of Mrs. Woods and her infant on Monday last, before
Mr. Rutter, when, as there appeared to be no blame attaching
to the engineer, the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
death." It was. stated at the inquest that the cow which was
the innocent cause of the above dreadful calamity, was one
which the deceased had been in the habit of milking for the
last twelve months, and it was much attached to her. It had
recognized the deceased across the railway and was endeavouring
to make its way to her, when the deceased, in a desire to save
it from the advancing train, eaLavoured to cross over to:, it,
and thus met with the fate from ivitiCh She ivishf.4 to preserve
her cow The. • deceased was 39 -ye.-:rs alb, and has left
a family of seven children, She was - a 'Woman of great
h iartvdness, and .had -th e chief Ta artagern tit . of -11 er hugatitid's
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