The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

OFFICIAL REPORT

"It appears that the 8.45 p. m. down mail train on
Saturday the sth of June, left London at its usual time,
and passed safely till within sight of the Wolverton sta-
tion. At the bridge, which is distant from the entrance
to the station about 600 yards, a siding commences, into
which coal and merchandise trains are passed. The train
arrived precisely at its proper time, the steam was shut
off before reaching the bridge, and the guards were at
their post. The policeman at the bridge gave the usual
signal of the arrival of the mail, and the signal was
acknowledged and repeated from the station. At this
time the points were right, and everything in proper
time for the entrance of the train into the station.

" From some cause, yet to be explained, the signal
man appears to have gone to the points, a distance of 40
or 50 paces, and to have turned the train into the siding.
On finding himself off the main line, and going into a
siding usually full of goods, the engine man reversed his
engine, and worked the wheels backwards. The break
of the tender which locks all the six wheels was applied,
and the guards used their breaks. The train, which was
composed of 16 carriages of various kinds, after running

of coals, which with,four or five others was standing there.
The engine-man and fireman were unhurt, and the buffer
plank of the engine only damaged. The leading carriage was
the Liverpool parcel van, and the second, the Manchester
-cel van ; both are unit '•tred.

he next was a second-
,
class carriage, also uninjured, and the passengers unhurt.

li•om the engine was a second-class also. This carriage
appears to have been lightly loaded ; and from the mo-
mentum of the train, and re-action of the buffers of the

leading carriages, was lifted up on its end, The next car-
riage was a. second-class also, being the sixth from the

engine, and on this the lamentable effect of the concussion
was felt in the deaths of seven male persons. The car-
riage was forced under the one which was lifted up, and
the injuries appear to have resulted entirely from the iron
work of the under framing. The carriage itself is broken
to pieces, arid; although the leading carriages show marks
of the collision, with the exception of the parcel vans, the
whole mischief appears to have fallen on the sth and Gth

carriages.
" It would be improper to anticipate the evidence be-
fore it is officially giVen, but from all we can learn the ac-
cident arises entirely and solely from the pointman turning,
the train off the main line. It is not an act of omission
of duty, because the points are always right for the main
line, and require holding.back to enable a train to enter
the siding. The man is in custody.

-- An a cu►usion attenuea. wito so fearful a loss of life it
might be expected that many passengers would be injured,
but we are happy to say this is not the case. One gentle-
man had a rib injured, and two others were much shaken,
but with these exceptions we do not learn that any pas-
sengers were seriously hurt."

SUNDAY NIGHT

throughout the day, in conseeinenee of a

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minus as to the truth of the rumour were most Incessant,
and parties whose friends left last night by the mail train
were solicitous as to their safety, awaiting the arrival of

unfortunately injured in the collision were brought up
from Wolverton by the York mail train, and were re-
moved to their residences suffering much from contusions
and bruises.

The guards of the train had a most miraculous escape,
the chief guard, Haines, was actually sitting on a carriage
that was destroyed, and on seeing that a collision was in-
evitable threw himself, at all risks, off the top down the
embankment and escaped unhurt. The second guard also
followed his example and was uninjured.
Although every endeavour was made on Sunday night
to get a more authentic description of the parties dead, it
was unattended with success. It is to be hoped, however,
that by the publicity given to the supposed names in the

foregoing

account Orthe accident,-The frii

Liscovered

THE TYLIPLEMURDERS ATMIRFIELD.—It is now proved
that the soldering iron which was found at the bottom of
Mr. Wraith's well, and which, from marks on the bodies
of the victims, there is scarcely a doubt had keen used in
the commission of the murder, belongs to the father of
the prisoner Patrick Reid, and that the prisoner fetched it
the day before the murders from the house of a neighbour
to whom it had been lent. On Saturday morning last
Reid, and the other prisoner, Michael M`Cabe, were
brought before the magistrates at the Dewsbury Court-
house for further examination,