The Express. — 1855-09-29 (London, England)

FATAL ACCIDENT ON TEE EAST LANCA SHIRE RAILWAY.  Oa Thieroday night an naident, fatal in its conge&airalment' near the Senweerent station, on the eeseakire Railway. The above hoe has hes proverbial to its having been remarkably fen from fatal aca. hats, es is wildest from the hat that Thursday was the shah mainnary of the Gneiss of the line, end daring the side M W nine years only one passenger has bees fatally It appears that a goods train, oonasting of 28 faile7== rfden with a the Rest cne, havin re g proceeded weseitoduowhnt te • NMI ent the viaduct ear to tbe south end of :tw Brooksheeloth Yeeeel, fee the wpm, of shunting two of the lambi, part of the train, at the side tails whisk lb* works of Jobe Rotdeson Ray, Esq., of Base-lan Bean Two break vane, oat I. front and the other is the rear, were assented with the train, to nth et whist a guard had been appealed. One of the guards needed to the shunting of the waggon, and the other riv maind ea the line with the prinespol portion of the train. Having sheeted the waggon, the .persoss M thugs proceeded to reAttach the portion of the train, sad, while ea g aol gtae eel lon coupling, a passengertrete which leaves at 11.55, and is due at Eery, for Manchester, at We, suddenly emerged from the mouth of the teasel, whither only 124 yards dean from the steadies train. The Wale we. thealated with Newell's patent which we. instantly brought into operation, bet in of the speed at white the Win was travelling I=allreseay prawn would be et about its usual raw), nod the sheet distance lam whisk danger Gould be ,it was intweeible to prevent a collision Notg the perilous peaks of the fogies driver and ellthee, they restaged at their peek and marvellously eeesped shine% uninjured. The Bogies drove with tearful Inelaele *salad the goods train, smalls, the guard'. van sillielleef Ike weans' to ahlveer,and two ether waggon were AMP blued. The rails for s distaste of several yards mete tern up, the body of the guard's van we. honked off the wheels sad upset, and the broken pieces seateseed about in all dirostions. One of the guards, named Beneal Sleet, who vies beemely employed as shunter at the /key oliebee, on the Lemeashire sad Yorkshire Railway, end wise ha l hem employed as guard by the Rut Lseemblies Railway Company only those days, happened to be adds the an at the time of the collision, and was killed on the eget. Hie body was felted shortly after*, accident eager the engine. He was a married man, bet bad no children It wee supWtsied about forty were more or lees tainted by the catastrophe, bat sem aT the injuries are likely to have a fatal termination. The g am who appeared to be seriously iajured seas R. Reg., memellioneer, Bieckhouse, tinatleworth, nearßemsbettemone elate magistreese of the entaty,who occupied a fint. el ass carriage. Be received a violent blow on the calf of the left leg, and was also struck on the upper lip by the hat of a gentleman seated opposite, and was otherwise inured about the heed. Mr. Purring, well known in musical circles in Manchester, naiad • severe blow on the nose, but was not otherwise seriously hart Mr. George Booth, builder, Elton, a very stout person, received injuries on the face and tuna. The shock was so sudden and onexpeeted that he Gould mallet nothing that took place at the time, @Rapt that he had an impression that the arch of the tunnel was follies upon the teas. Mrs. Shadworth, of Bdeufield, was slightly shaken. Mr. Daniel Soon, of Oldham, alio was somewhat shakes. Mr. Obattwood, architect, Bury, was not mach injured. Mr. Deck, insaranos agent, Baty, was severely Wand on the lege, not being able to stand after the accident took place. Mr. Oee, of Bradford-terrace, near Bury, we. elm tittered. In the carriage occupied by Mr. Deck and Mr. Gee, a lady had some of her teeth knocked out. Mr. Elba, opal proprietor, Ringley, had bb fan cut and wasetherwies limbed. Robert Fonytb, guard of the passenger train, had hie fan cut, probably by the breaking of the window is the van. Shortly after the accident, a telegraphic message was despatched, giving Miasmata relative to the disaster, and Mr. Eborall, general manager, Dr. Harrison,sad other gentlemen, speedily arrived on the spot by special eagles. From Inquiries made last evening of Dr. Ban risen, aßer visiting various of the patients, we learn they are doing a. well as w be impacted, several being confined to their beds, with every probability, however, of speedily recovering. We understand that all the compan' servants who are impeded of having in any way contributed to the muse of the snidest have ban suspended until the secessery in quiriso have ban made. Probably the most material point of the investigation will be with respect to the signal. A young man, son of Mr. Mawdsloy, nation=after at Basmerssat, whom duty it was to attend to the signal, declares that the signal at the end of the tassel was on, but the engine driver connected with the paurger train isequally °mildest that the signal was not on. the signal had been ae, which consists of a red disc which le very perceptible, it would have been the duty of the endriver tolls,. proceeded slowly through the tunes], • of 250 yards, and the stager would thus have been melded. The signal was Ided by the instructions of Mr. Vann, and was found to be is tinkles coodition. The essidest occurred at • nomeer before one o'clock in the and by half-pest Mier o'cleth the line was per tee▪ tkeleiro es that the Weiss seeM pees es usual. Intelliggddeesee~ the as saddest wes seas elsoulated throughout is usual usher web circumstance, the abets of odastleghe **teem much ted. It WY reported in Baty GM the ikbees that mare' ClPLawere killed • peal umber waseispd ; whereas sti h is, that with the oweepelee se the guard, who was ollbetemetely killed, Ibsen do:set appear to have been any bone leekeo,—Messaleehr 14ankter.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE FROM A WlNDOW.—Yesterday morning, a woman residing at No. 9, Broadcourt, Bow-street, attempted self-destruction by throwing herself from the second flier window of the house on the pathmeat below—a fall of shout thirty feet. Some of the neighbours who saw her limp were perfectly horrified, supposing that instant death most be the coasequeee. Oa approaching her, however, CI she lay on the pavement, they found her alive, and apparently not seriously injured. She was removed to King's College Hospital, sad whew she was iniamthed by the resident surgeon, it appossod that not a boa* was broken, and that the endwise@ Mae very slight. Such an almost miraculous map is sale* attributable to the sir having inflated her pandas% Mt that they formed a kind of parachute during the illemmal She remains in the hospital under medical treatises an/ complains very much of her back, from which it is Ihl that the spine has sustained some injury. A