The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-09-19 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

MANY INJURED. residence, in that town. For a itie 11th time come A te ble collision occurred late on the llta ldr. Hunt's manner and appearance attn.. -Ithe Great Eastern Railway at Thorpe, attention, but there was not the aliatest as'isPicion o miles from Norwich, by wLich seven- that the unfortunate gentleman had a suicidol tens sb°-...,.„0 were killed and about forty injured. dency, neither can any reason be assigned to; the tear-, vll mail train from Great Yarmouth was painful act He was in affluent circumstances, Tbein'be-iy. the down express train from Norwich to held an important and lucrative office' er and ~,s Yarmouth. The shock was awful. The in pr ictice as a sclicitor. n Saturday morns „,t" when they met, must have reared log he came down to breakfast at his usual eNfri; almost Perpendicular position, and the hour, and the servants heard him enter the mounted one on the top of another, gradtt- breakfast room. His letters were lying ready W Tsking down into an inconceivsble mass of for him, and it seems he opened and read them as .een lb-lh into the open on the table. Shortly afterwards he frightful crash, rushed ruins. Tie inhabitants of Thorpe, they were fonnd placed in his methodical m nner Eine" jig ted terwards he was he rd to . Mtwithstauding the fact that the Fain go upstairs, and after a while the servants heard a ;fling down in torrents, and the sight noise, which sounded to them like a glass falling. met their view on arriving at the a sue of Presently the noise was ri-peated, and the servants ";;Atistrophe was appalling; the groans of the went into the garden to see if the looking-6sta passengeie, and the frantic shrieks and bad really been blown from the bed room window Is for help which proceeded from those who by the wind, but observing it in its place they re„-e'realiving and still within the carriages, were turced to the house, and went to the deceatied's mending in the extreme. Dr. E,4 was bed room. Finding the door fastened, they sent m- the Lowestoft train at the time of the for his nephew, Mr. Thomas Hunt, who speedily „dent, and although cut about the face arrived, and, ascertaining that the bed room door reatly shaken, he at once did all he was still secured, he went personally for Mr. dta alleviate the agonies of his fellow suf. Nason, surgeon. They returned together, and Dr. Frandes. who was also in the train, forced open the door, when a moat painful we learn, dangerously wound,d, and of course spectacle presented itself. Mr. Hunt lay in a ,i,;uld render no assistance. Special t ains brought pool of blood, faintly breathing. On examination he be dead and wounded, as they were recovered, to was found to be quite beyond human aid, and he the city, and they were removed in the pre- lingered for about three hours, when he expired. ,cute of a large number of horror-stricken He had shot himself with a revolver twice under „oplo to the hospital or to their homes, as the the jaw. The first shot had not taken effect, and 6ss might be. The sickening spectacle was far he fired a second which inflicted a mortal wound. !ems at Th rpe Hamlet. Ins one of the rooms cf The deceased gentleman was a widower, without the Thorpe Gardens Inn, on hastily-constricted any family. He was appointed town clerk in sue. b-di, were laid some halta dozen 'horribly maimed cession to his late brother, in 1864, and was elected sad disfigured sufferers, whose cries went to the clerk of the peace on the death of his brother, Mr. beats of ever., one within hearing. It should W, 0. Hunt, in December, 1873, and practised i be mentioned that the line from Norwich to Stratford as an attorney. His manners were Yarmouth and Lowestoft is a single one, and hence always refined, and he was extremely courteous be accident. and singularly methodical in his business habits. He belonged to a family whose name has for many years been associated with the borough, and his melancholy end is deeply deplored.—Birmingham Post.