Weekly News. — 1891-01-15 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SERIOUS RAILWAY COLLISION. Shortly after midnight on Saturday a collision occurred at Trinity-street Station, Bolton, of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, by which 32 passengers were injured, some already seriously. The traffic had been delayed during Saturday night by Stl, Si of weather and the Scotch strike. The train from Preston to Manchester, due at Bolton at 11.47, did not arrive until 12.23, and was discharging and receiving passengers at the platform when the second portion of the 10.20 Midland express, due at 11.27, ran into the guards van. The utmost excitement and confusion prevailed. The passengers in the stationary train suffered most, and were dashed across the compartments, suffering severe cuts, bruises, and contusions, whilst some were internally injured. The Preston train consisted of engine, tender, and seven coaches. One third-class carriage next the engine was thrown off the rails and blocked up the line until after 2 o'clock. Twenty-five passengers in this train complained of injuries, most of them being Manchester men who had been engaged in billiard and whist contests at a Bolton club. The Hellifield train was very lightly loaded, and only two complained of being hurt. A special train of first-class carriages was made up, and all the injured persons, with the exception of two, were removed to Manchester, where two went to the Inrfimary, the remainder going some. Two were Arthur Webster and John Calland, both of Manchester. They were suffering from concussion of the brain. The signalman, Thomas Potts, says the line was blocked to the Scotch train, and the driver was pulling up. When, however, he had got near the rear of the Prestr,.l train he dropped the special caution signal, still leaving the ordinary block on. Edwin Dodgin, signalman at another cabin, says the signals were against the7driver. The line at the entrance to the station is a sharp curve, and it is said he would not see the standing train until he reached the platform. Ordinarily, the Scotch train would run through Bolton 'without stopping, having no passengers to set down.  A workman at Boston, while engaged in replacing the globe of an incandescent light on Saturday, tea hold of the metal ring intead of the glass end. 'I ie man received a strong electric shock, which killed him instantly. The connecting wire had to be cut before the ring could be detached from his grasp. It is reported from Halifax (N.S.) that four engines on the Cape Breton Railway went over an embankment onMonday while assisting a train which had got off the rails. The passengers were obliged to proceed to Port Mulgrave by stage. The passengers who disembarked from the Umbria, at Queenstown, on Saturday, from New York, report that a Russian Finn, committed suicide last Saturday night in his bunk by cutting his throat with a pocket knife. The man was buried at sea. The Duke of Cambridge has, in a generai order to the Army, awarded the medal for long service and good conduct to 175 non-commissioned officees and men of whom 15 belong to the Cavalry, 57 to the Artillery, 18 to the Royal Engineers, six to the Foot Guards, and the remainder to the Line Infantry and Departmental Corps. A tun is Buena), to Ilt3 jaju mune law runiau Lancitag for restoring to the Duke of Cumberland,as heir of the late King of Hanover, the so-called Guelph Fund, confiscated by Prince Bismarck in 1868. The amount in question is about 16,000,000 Milers, or over two and a half millions sterling. The pretext on which the ex-Chancellor sequestrated the property was the alleged anti-Prussian machinations of the late King of Hanover. But the Standard correspondent says the present Emperor is, for various reasons, opposed to the continuance of the sequestration, and informed Queen Victoria to that effect when they met at Darmstadt last year.