The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

Bourse, August 21.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
41 per Cent.
Eud of mouth... Ital'au Loan
3 per Cent
End of mouth— 70 471 Mexican Loan 23
Credit Mobilier 281 Du. Bonds
End of month... 280 Spanish Threes 36
Credit Foncior ...1442 Homo Debt —
End of month... Deferred —
Cash
Orleans
Northern 1167
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 5Bl
Western
Eastern • • 563
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 402
North of Spain 5l
Saragossa
Roman 4O

RAILWAYS.

7HE DREADFUL ACCIDENT TO THE
IRISH MAIL 7RALY.

ABERGELE, Friday, Two o'clock.

The first train from Chester after the arrival of
this morning's Irish Express has just reached here,
and the last train to reach London to-night leaves
here in half an hour. I have only time, therefore,
to say that, so far from being an exaggeration of
the facts, the account of the accident which
reached town by telegram this morning fell
short of conveying an idea of what to-day's
examination has proved the occurrence to have
been. Certainly, anything like so awful a rail-
way accident has never occurred in this country.
Persons who witnessed the collision from the
bank state that for a considerable time the
line for some distance was as if covered with a
sheet of flame. Until an immense quantity of
water had been thrown on it the fire was not ex-
tinguished, and when put out at one spot it broke
out in another. All this time the bodies of the
passengers in the three first-class carriages next
the engine and tender were burning literally to
ashes. In some cases an inch or two of a dress are
all that was found in a heap of charred remains to
show that they are those of a lady. In several
cases even cinders of the bones have not been left.
What were human forms had been gathered up like
so much black dust. The body of the stoker, who
lay under the engine, was almost the only one that
presented the appearance of a dead man. The
flesh was burnt off, but a calcined skeleton, with
every rib visible, was left. The name, " Prince of
\Vales," is still to be seen on the locomotive, which
is now standing on its wheels close to the Aber-
gele station ; but the tender made a tremendous
somersault and went right over the engine and its
funnel ; it is slushed to pieces. Of the carriages in
which the passengers were seated nothing exists to
show they were carriages but the wheels and axles ;
what were the bodies lie in thousands of pieces like
small firewood that had been reduced to charcoal.
It is believed that 27 persons have been killed ; but
all is still confusion, and I cannot give this as the
correct number. Neither has the cause of the roll-
ing back of the goods train been as yet ascertained.
The ashes of the killed are about here in coffins
awaiting identification ; but, except from luggage or
some portions of burnt wearing apparel, identifica-
tion will be impossible.
Ten bodies in coffins, 13 in tarpctu'ins, lie in
Abergele Church, merely charred masses of human
trunks. There are no heads, nor feet, nor flesh.
The Coroner assembled a jury, but could not
proceed until the medical examination discovers
the sex of some one of the bodies from the
bones. The inquest is therefore adjourned until
Monday.
Sixteen watches, a great deal of jewellery and
money, some thousands of pounds' worth in value,
have been found, looking more like ancient bronzes
than anything else. A further search is to be
made for them.

The driver of the engine alighted on his feet, and
was then thrown down by a fragment of the van.
He heard the stoker utter one cry.
None of the carriages were overturned, but the
four that were next to the engine, including one
second-class, were in a blaze within a few seconds
of te r
a he
scollision, passengers seem to have
been
etblazing furnace, instantly
roasted,
ted a s
if and
in the
and without the utterance of a cry.

The Post-office vans were between those car-
riages and the carriages which escaped. The con-
nexion the carriages.
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ord
and Lady Farnham
and her servant, Sir Nicholas Chinnery, two ladies,
and man servant ; Mrs. Askin and daughter, of
Kidderminster; and Miss Roe are among the dead.

Four or five trucks had rolled back for a mile and
a half. Two were laden with petroleum.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

The full extent of this deplorable catastrophe
was announced yaterday. Beyond the lamentable
fact that some 23 persons met with what it is be-
lieved must have been an almost instantaneous
death, there is little to add except those details of
the accident which will naturally be looked for by
the public with painful interest.

The Irish limited mail ran out of Euston station
for the first time on October 1, 1860, under charge
of the same two guards, Hinton and Smith, who
conducted it on Wednesdny morning. For eight
years this train has run with perfect regularity and
freedom from accident, and although the saddest
and most fatal disaster in the history of British
railways has at length befallen it, there is some
satisfaction in the reflection that the terrible visi-
tation has not happened through any irregularity
or accident in its working, but from a cause totally
unconnected with this service.

The collision occurred at a quarter to one
o'clock, and intelligence having been sent back
to Abergele the telegraph wires were put in opera-
tion, and Mr. Lee, resident engineer at Bangor,
and Mr. Benger, the district superintendent,
were on the spot before 3 o'clock. It was a con-
siderable time before the burnt carriages could
be approached, owing to the intense heat thrown
out by the fused mass of iron and burning
embers, and when search was commenced for
the sufferers, little more than charred remains
of human bodies could be discovered. In most of
the cases the bodies were headless, and in many it
was impossible to discover whether the sufferers
were males or females. Every particle of clothing
was destroyed on all the sufferers, and for a long
time only one body was recognized—that of the
venerable LDrd Farnham, whose identity was estab-
lished through an inscription inside a gold watch,
recovered from his remains. It h.is been since as-
certained that Lord Farah:an was travelling with
his wife, Lady Farnham, and a valued old re-
tainer of the family, Miss Stafford, who was
in the same first-class carriage with them. In
their suite were also travelling Mary Ann Kellett,
lady's-maid, Outen, his lordship's valet, and Charles
Buckingham, footman in the same service, all of
whom are lost. Lady Farnham, before going to
Buxton, last month, called at Hunt and Roskell's
and took from their care in a small bag more than
£6,000 worth of her own jewelry, with which she
is supposed to have been travelling on Thursday.