Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1866-09-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SINGULAR RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR PLYBIOUTH.—An extraordinary railway accident occurred on Thursday morning week, near Plymouth. The facts appear to be these :—The mail train due at Plymouth at 635 a.m, ran into a stationary engine which was in its way at Flympton The driver and stoker id the latter, seeing a collision was not to be avoided, jumped off and saved themselves. The force of the concussion turned on the steam of the engine which was run into and it started off at a furious pace with no person in charge of it towards pi)mou, h, a distance of five miles. It ran into the station and buried itself in the cloak-room. Nobody was killed, but some of the passengers by the mail train were slightly bruised, through the carriage in which they were travelling being thrown off the line, From Mr Reuter's office we have the following account A disabled engine belonging to a luggage train was run into this morning by the down mail train on the South De. on Railway. The engine and one of the carriages of the train were thrown off the line, but without causing damage to life or limb. The luggage engine was deserted by its driver and stoker, and ran on for five miles into Plymouth station, where it was brought up by crushing through the station buffers into the cloak, room, causing considerable damage, but no persons were hurt. The arrival of the mails were delayed two hours." A BRIDE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT BY HER II belle N D.—Abi ut three months ago Mr M. A. Rawkea, a native ol Marblehead, Mass., but lately of Chicago, came to St. Paul for the benefit of his health, and since then has been stopping at the Mansion House. Some three weeks since Mrs Hawkes came to this city to join her husband, who anxiously awaited her coming, and to whom he has been devotedly attached. During the three weeks past the husband and wife, who have been but eight or ten months married, were, as he stated to a friend, really spending their honeymoon. Together they visited the lakes. Wherever the husband went the wife acoomi aided him, and every evening was spent in her company. Yesterday morning the husband and wife went down to breakfast at the Mansion House in their usual good spirits. After returning to their room, Mr Hawkes took out one of tat) pistols ahich he possessed, and began to clean and oil it, his wife, in the meantime, seated in the rockingeh tir, was engaged in sewing. One of the servants of the house was in and out of the room during this time. and having adjusted the furniture she had returned with a pitcher of water, and was standing in the corner a few feet from the chair occupied by Mrs H., when she heard the report of the pistol, and looking round, saw the lady leap from her seat, exclaiming, "Ohm, my God V* and then dropped down upon the carpet weltering in her life blood and expired. The husband, when he realised the terrible calamity that had befallen him, was overcome with grief and anguish, and in the midst of his unutterable woe nearly lost his reason, and he could with difficulty be restrained from adding a suicide to the fearful drama. A coroner's jury returned a verdict that the death of Mrs Hawke! "resulted accidentally from the discharge of a pistol in the hands of her husband, Mr A. Ilawkes, and that no blame can be attached to him in the matter, except for the careless manner in which the pistol was held."—.St. Paul's Press.