The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1874-09-19 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

REALTSM ON THE STAGE.  At the Cambridge Theatre on Saturday night, the performance.e terminated with the tragedy of "Maria Martin, or the Murder at the Red Barn" The curtain fell after the murderer bad been brought to the FC ,ffold, and with the rope da• gling ; above him had •• improved the occasion,' the ; orchestra began to play the National Anthem, !`lvbieh was, however, rec. ived with hisses and ; clamour. M. Hughes, the man • gor, apologised on ; the ground that he was unable to gratify his patrons by hanging the actor who repreeented the mu; der. r ; but the gods shouted furionFly, and eipreseed a desire to use the murderer actually bung in their presence. At length the audience slowly, ; and with manite t reluctance, left the theatre. '  THE INJURED The injured persons are—John Ring, aged 24, Cambridge, goods carman, Great Eastern Railway, contusion; William Baker, 24, Hereford, labourer, contusion; Susan Brown. 33, St. Benedicts, Norwich, sesinstrees, compound dislocation of the uncle; lischael Clark, 34, Backhill, Ely, wife of ticket collector, Great Eastern Railway, scalp wound; Elizabeth Clark, S. daughter of last named, fracture of skull: John Clarke, 6, eon of Rachael Clarke, scalp wound; Charlotte Coote, 40, of 20. Archibald street, Campbell row, Bow, wife of warehouseman, and employed by Mr. Curtis, Distillery road, Mite end, compound fracture of leg; Coote, a little girl, daughter of the above named, hurt about the head; Jane Faulkner, 31, Prince of Wales road, Norwich, domestic servant, fracture of both legs; Charles Betts. 3. Mariners lane, Norwich, .on of the firemen, scalp wound; John Betts. a stoker in the employ of the Great Eastern Railway, fractured skull and other severe injuries: a man about 50 years of age. not yet identified, severe injuries to skull, broken jaw, Ac.; Sarah Gibbs, 36, Castle Meadow, Norwich, house.. keeper in the service of Mr. Caley, draper, free. timed leg; Eliza Margaret Baldry, le, Dereham road, Norwich, dressmaker, sprained ancle; Sarah Wollatone, 21, Cheri, street, New Lakenham. Nor; wick, dressmaker, fracture,' leg; Susan Arbon, 49, Arlesey, Bedfordshire, wife of a labourer, cone tusion of head; William Savage, 24, Hereford, coal miner, broken leg, to.; Henry Bedd, 24, 4, Pitt street, Ncrwich, fractured ribs; Wm. Stowers, 35,9, Surrey terrace, hawker, fractured ribs and severe injuries of legs; John Bears. 61, Alborough, Suffolk, draper, amputation of arm, dm.; F. W. Dendy, 25, Rediruth, Cornwall. solicitor, contusions; George Wright, 41. 4, Dolmans. Yarmouth, guard on Great Eastern Railway, scalp wound; Robert Savage. 33, Hereford, coal miner, fractured leg; Alfred Page, 44, Simmston, brush maker, scalp wound, lco.; William Algar, Pr nce of Wales's road, Norwich, grocer's apprentice, fractured thigh and fractured leg; Alfred Meredith, 31, Manor place, Walworth road, compositor, fractured leg; and many others. A Norwich correspondent writes on Saturday night :—The statement of Dr. Pitt as to the position in which he found Mr. R. W. White, one of the wounded pruwengers, upon his arrival at the scene of the catastrophe, is of a very painful character. This unfortunate gentleman was jammed beneath a railway carriage, and lay like a man in a coffin upside down. He was in this condition three hours and a half. In order to sustain him in this agonising position, and to prevent him from fainting, Dr. Pitt, Captain Douglas. and Mr. C. Forster contrived to supply him with brandy soaked in a handkerchief, which, being placed upon the end of a stick, they managed to slide up his mouth, and induced him to suck. By this means only he was sustained until his liberation was effected. Another oorrespendent states that the train from Norwich had just crossed a wooden bridge which carries the line over the river Tare. Had the collision taken pito,* on this bridge the consequences might have been still more disastrous, as numbers of the passengers must have been drowned. Another circum tance which helped to mitigate slightly the horrors of the collision was the presence of three empty carriages and a horsebox (belonging to the North Eastern Railway Company) nest the engine of the Norwich train. The horse was killed, the horse-boa being completely wrecked. The sacrifice of the horse box and the three empty carriages, however, probably saved the lives of some of the passengers from Norwich. Next the Yarmouth engine there were also two trucks laden with fish. The contents of these trucks were strewed about the line, but the consignees succeeded in saving some of them.