The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-06 00:00:00

THE RAILWAYTISH TOWN. ACCIDENT AT KEN-

DEATH OF ANOTHER SUFFERER.
We have yet another name to add to the list of
those who have met their deaths through this sad
calamity, Geo. H. Bolton, the stoker, who crawled
from amid the wreck after the collision, literally in
flames, having died yesterday in the University
Hospital. From the first his recovery was regarded
as hopeless. Benjamin Rushbrook, who lies in the
same hospital, is still in a very dangerous condition,
but all the other sufferers from the accident who
lie here are reported by the house surgeons as pro-
essi ng
gr favourabl.
At the Middlesexy Hospital Geo. Terry (dislocated
shoulder and concussion of the brain) is stated by
the house surgeon to be still in a dangerous state—
rather more conscious than before, but at the same
time more violent and excited. Mrs. Ann Phillpott,
the other sufferer at the Middlesex Hospital, is re-
ported as progressing favourably.
At the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, Sarah
Cox and James English are reported by Mr. Hill,
house surgeon, to be both getting on very favour-
ably and out of danger.
The number of deaths, including that of the stoker,
now amounts to 13, and this number will, there is
every reason to fear, be still further increased, but
there appetzrs no reason now to suppose, as was at
first rather pot;ltively concluded, that several of the
ill-fated excursion:.!,te had, after extrication from
the wreck of the broken carriages, been conveyed
by friend 3 to their own hems, suffering from in-
juries likely to terminate fataLly.
Upon visiting the scene of the .ccident yester-
day, we found large crowds of persona still. assem-
bling on the open field crossed by the line, inspect-
ing the wreck and witnessing the operations of
the workmen who were employed in getting
up the engine and completing their work of break-
ing up the carriages, which can be effectually re-
moved in no other way. By the aid of powerful
screw-jacks the engine was raised into an upright
position, and partially got upon the tramway which
had been previously laid on the slope of the em-
bankment for the purpose of enabling it to be
drawn on to the railway itself. All further at-
tempts being reserved until this morning.
The people who assembled on the spot were of
a respectable class. There were several private
carriages there, the occupants of which were quite
as exacting in their curiosity as the hundreds and
thousands of less well-to-do people who had pre-
ceded them. About 11 o'clock the workmen
suspended operations for the purpose of getting
lunch, and the police removed the barriers to per-
mit the public to have a close inspection of the wreck
and the broken carriages, an opportunity of which
most of the spectators speedily availed themselves.
On one side the archway beneath which the wreck
lies was a pile of seats and cushions from a first class
carriage; on the other was a pile of splinteredwood-
work, made up of broken floors and sides and roofs.
In another place was a large heap of woodwork, and
standing about at intervals were the lower frames of
three carriages, on wheels, while the frame of a
fourth lay flat on the ground, cracked and splintered,
and battered in every part. Among all these the
people circulated freely—fashionably dressed ladies
and well dressed gentlemen freely speculating upon
the probabilities of some particular fragment of
wood or iron having been the immediate cause of
death to some poor excursionist ; while a photo-
graphic artist was busily engaged in taking views
of the scene separately and as a whole, and had his
patience sorely tried by people who, despite all his
prayers, and all the commands of the police to
stand back, would keep rushing between his camera
and his object.
It appears that the light-fingered gentry could
not refrain from reaping their harvest even on the
field of death. Mrs. Clara Clements, whose death
at the University Hospital we yesterday reported,
when she quitted home on Monday morning wore
a valuable gold watch and cameo brooch, and as
neither of these was on her person when she was
taken to the hospital, and as neither has since been
heard of, it is naturally concluded by her friends
that they were stolen from her while she was being
extricated from among her fellow passengers.
It has been noticed that there is a considerable
curve between the Kentish-town station and the
spot at which the excursion train and the ballast
train came into contact, and this is the case. In
fact, it is stated that there is no curve so severe on
the first 100 miles of the London and North-
Western main line. Nevertheless, this could have
cothing to do with the accident, for, standing on
the spot yesterday, we observed the entish-town
station in full view, without so much as a twig to
obstruct it or interfere with the signals. Looking at
the line, and at all that has so far transpired, nothing
is so clear, apparently, as that this awful sacrifice
of life was the result of some one man's carelessness
or misconception—a mistake in, or a disregard of,
the proper signal. But upon this point the public
mind will doubtless be soon folly enlightened by
the inquiry which will be actively commenced this
day by the coroner.