Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
ENGLISH RAILWAY DISASTER.
Ten Killed and Eight Injured in Colli-
sion On the Greut Western Railway.


sion On the Great Western Railway.
LONDON, Nov. -. News has been
received here OF a terrible accident on
the Great Western railway at Norton
Fitz Warren station, near Taunton. A
heavily Laden goods train crashed into u
special passenger train from Plymouth
which was conveying to London the
passengers from the Cape of Good Hope
WHO had arrived by the steamer Norham
Castle. Zen persons are reported killed
and eight injured, several seriously.
| The utmost anxiety prevails among
those who had relatives or friends on the
Norham Castle to ascertain the names
Ct the victims.
Later advices from the scene of the
| Of the wreck on the Great Western
railway near Norton FitZ- Warren sta
ton state that the special train from
Plymouth to London with the passen-
gers OF the steamer Nordhan Castle,
from the Cape of Good Hope. was made
! up OF four passenger coaches containing
fifty passengers. It was pitch dark and
| o'clock the sDecial running at rate the Of
fifty miles an hour, dashed by the little
Somersetshire village and into destruc-
ton. The signal man on duty had for
gotten that the heavily laden Great
| Western goods train was stand
ing on the up track to permit of the
| down mail passing on it's way in safety,
as it did, The danger signals were not
displayed to the engineer of the oncom-
ing special, and with all the momentum
Of its weight and tremendous speed the
| doomed train.
| Hurled Itself Upon the Goods Train
in it's path. The force of the collision
was such that at the moment Of contact
| the first coach OF the special was literally
! smashed into matchwood. Almost inn
mediately after the collision sparks
! from the engine furnace communicated
| to the debris and the horror Of fire was
added to the terrors of the catastrophe.
Before anything could be done towards
rescuing them six of the occupants of
| the first coach who had escaped in the
awful crash, were slowly burned to
death in the presence of fellow human
beings, who were powerless to release
them from the flames. which gradually
enveloped and slowly consumed their
bodies. One OF the passengers who had
been killed at the moment the trains
came together, presented a ghastly spec
tacle, his head having been severed from
his body as cleanly as though it had
been done by the guillotine.
Foreign.
The Countesses of Jersey and Rose
berry have both been quite i'll and now
relapses are announced in both cases.
A Berlin dispatch says that it is un.
derstood there that the tour of the
Russian czarevitch is not altogether
ro,, Nj tir,l in itc ohioof
The Marseilles chamber of commerce
has appointed d committee of sixty-six
to influence Frenyh legislation as much
as possible in the direction Of light
duties on imports.
Extensive strikes of shoemakers are
in progress at Erfurt, Saxony, and Pr
masens, Bavaria. The dispute is over a
question of wages and hours. Upwards
of 2, 800 persons are idle.
The Count of Paris has sent present
Of 10000 francs to the pope, by his
daughter. the Princess Helene, who is
on visit to Rome for the purpose of
rendering her devoirs to his holiness.
Lord Randolph Churchill is about to
start on journey to the south of
France, where he will spend some time
on account Of his health. He will not
be present during tho autumn session Of
parliament.
Bancroft, the actor, has offered to
give 5000 to tho fund that is being
raised by Gen. Booth, Of the Salvation
Army, for the redemption of the
masses, providing ninety-nine other sub
scriptions OF an equal amount are made.
Duncan, the aged editor of The Matri.
monial News, against whom Miss
Knowles obtained verdict Of $50, 1000
for breach of promise Of marriage, has
been compelled by the bankruptcy
court to disgorge a., 900 in money and
about $l0, 900 in jewelry. Miss Knowles
is the only creditor.