The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-02
II u R O P Il.
LATER NEWS BY STEAMER.

BY the arrival of the steamship Java at New
York, yesterday, we have European advces to
--'s "'' " ENGLAND.
| The Terrible Railroad Accident I'm Wales.
The London Globe, of August 2l, contains the
| ollowing;-
! Perhaps the most fearful and extraordinary
accident which ever occurred on the rail way IS
| that reported this morning, and which hap
| pened on the Chester aud Holy head line, near
| landduas, ye terday, about mile aud a nalf
| IRON Abergele. A telegraph despatch says:-
| The Irish limited mail, leaving London at a
| quarter past O'Clock, passed Abergele sta1ou
| IN sa1ety about / O'Clock. A goods train had
| passed halt al hour before. Beyond Llanddulqs
| portion of the goods tram to dolyhead seems
| to have become detached and ran back down
| the incline, meeting the mail train gong at
| about forty miles an hour. There is curve
| near. The driver of the mail train, Arthur
| Thompson of Stafford, seeing that a collision
| was inevitable, jun oed oil aud escaped slightly
| hurt. The stoker, Joseph Holmes, OF Stafford,
| remained.
Az The back Of the goods train was wagon
| laoon with petroleum OIL, and when the COLT
| sion occurred the petroleum exploded. Tue
| engine tender and three hrst-cass carriages
| were smashed up toge her and burned with
| petroleum. Twenty-tnree passengers for Ire
| land we're burned so badly that none could be
| RECOGNIZED. watch was found, with an iu-
| sciiI ton showing 1t belonged to Lord Farnham,
| who was accompanied, 1t is supposed, by two
| daue hters. Locomotives, cranes, and meu were
| sent from Chester ana CteWe, aud the line WAS
cleared about balt-pasL O'Clock. The wires
| having been broken prevented earlier messages
| for assistance.
Twenty three bodies have been brought to
Plestatyn station and placed in collins and taken
| TO Alb rgele church. The passengers hurt are
| distributed about Prestatyn, Abergele, aud
| places near. Their names canuot he ascertaned
at this late hour. 1t is feared tnat noue OF the
| bodies will be recognizable by friends, they are
| so feartuly cbaired. Four ooc ors ron Aber.
| gele and hhyi are waiting upon the sufferers by
| direction Of the railway company. The body OF
| the stoker was picked up under the broken
| engine. Thompson, the engine driver, IS at
| cottage near the scene OF the accident aud able
to give some account of what be saw. Tue IN
quest will probably be opened to-day and be
| Immediately adjourned.
The Duchess of Abercoru and family. Lord
| Castlerosse aud family, and Mr.. and Lady Sell
wln-lbbetson were passengers by the train, bat
| all escaped unnurt
The Duchess of Abercorn and Lord Hamilton
| have proceeded to Ireland.
| Burning Carriages and Charred Bodies.
| The AberRele (Aug. 81 correspondence of the
| London Times says:-
Certainly anything ike so awful railroad
| accident has never occurred IN this country.
| Persons who witnessed the collision from the
| bank state that for considerable time the line
ior'some distance was as If covered with sheet
| OF flame. Until an immense quantity of water
had been thrown on 1t the fire was not extin-
! guished, and when put out at one spot 1t broke
| out IN another. All this time the bodies OF The
passenger IN the three first class carriages next
the engine and tender were burning literally to
ashes. In some cases an inch or two OF dress
was all that was found in heap of charred re-
mains to show that they are those
of lady. In several cases even
cinders of the bones have not been
left. What were human forms had been ga
| thered up like SO much black dust. The body
of the stoker. who lay under the engine, was
almost the only one that presented the appear.
auce of dead man. The flesh was burned Off,
but calcined skeleton, with every rio visible,
| mo laft no n 10 et
| 10 be seen on the locomotive, which is now
standing on It's wheels close to the Abergele
station; but the tender made tremendo Is
erset, and went right over the engine and
lis funnel; it is smashed to pieces. OF the car
riages in which the passengers were seated
nothing exists to show that they we're car
rHees but the wheels aud aXes; what were the
bodies lie in thousands OF pieces ike small dre-
wood that had been reduced to charcoal.
1t is believed that twenty-seven persons have
been killed.
The smoke, pitchy black, as from funnel
which the petroleum emitted, lntercep ed the
view of The carriages in front, and 1t WAS only
alter the sides had been burned so that the inte-
rer became visible, and the lumeIous outlines
OF calcined human forms were seen in various
attitudes, that the awful truth vas realized. The
heat and stencil were oveIpo ~erlng. The jig nd
bre burned up the grass and hedge OF the en-
bank ment, the telegraph poles, and sleepers.
The flames increased in intensity for several
minutes and literally swept the carriages driving
iu ore windo Y and out at the other, and pro.
due ng heat SO intense that it WAS lmpossibe e
to approach within a considerable distance OF the
train. The passengers in the London carriages,
who had escaped with very slight shock,
owing to the enormous weight and velocity OF
the engine having prevented any serious re-
bound, alighted from Their carriages immedi-
ately after the collision and wed with each
other in endeavorng TO render what aid they
could. The country people in the vicinity and
large nun Der OF workmen from slate quarry
near the spot, who had been alarmed by the
conclusion, were also soon gathered on the
spot and q number of pals having been got
together line OF men was formed across the
intervening sands, and buckets OF sea water
were obtained IN the hope of subduiug the
flames. All these efforts proved fraltless,
! however, and the fire continued to burn with
increasing fury until every vestige of the wood.
work OF the Chester carriages and Que of the
Post Office tenders was entirely consumed
nothing T, naming but the iron framewo and
wheels, the greater portion OF which was red
hot.
1t was considerable time before the burnt
carriages could be approached owing to the
intense heat thrown out by the fused mass o
iron and Turning oers, and when seal. h wa
CO mmencPd tor the sufferers little more thar
charred remains of human bolles could be dis
covered. In most OF the eases The bodies were
headless, and in many 1t was impossible to dis
cover whether the sufferers were males ol
females.
Every particle of clothing was DESTROYED OF
all the sufferers, and Tor Il long time only ont
body was recoe nZed-th8t of the venerable
Lord FaIphan, whose identity was es'ablishe,
through an inscription inside gold wltch
| recovered fIom mis- remaius. 1t has since beer
asct rained that Lord Fsrnham was traVpihne
} with his wife, Lady Farnham and valued ole
retainer OF the family, Hiss StaHor who was II
I the same first class carriage with them. In tnen
3 suite were also travelling Mary Ann Kellatt
| lady's maid, Outen his lord -hiD's valet, spC
nnha f,otn in thA