The Press. — 1858-11-20 (London, England)

THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 20, 1858.  man ran on to the Newcastle station, carrying a portion of the smashed carriage on the end of the engine. The only accident that °centred to the fast train was that the engine broke one of its buffer ends, and smashed the glass in the plate protecting the engineman trum the weather. A shipwright, who was deaf and did not escape with the other passengers from the Shields train, had one or two of his ribs fractured by the goods train running into it, and another man was cut about the head. These were the only injuries done to the passengers, whose escape was one of the most remarkable in the history of railway travelling.  A SHOCKING ACCIDENT occurred at Preston on Saturday, to Mrs. Sarah Shaw, a widow, which has resulted in her death. As she was reaching something from a shelf, a loaded pistol fell down, which on striking the ground exploded, and the contents were discharged into her leg. They entered at the lower pert of the calf, and, passing upwards, shattered both bones of the limb into innumerable splinters. The unfortunate woman, with great presence of mind, bound a handkerchief round the wound to check the effusion of the blood, and despatched a messenger to Preston for surgical assistance. Amputation was performed, but Mrs. Shaw never recovered the shock her system had sustained, and gradually sank and expired. She was to have been married on the very day on which the inquest was held upon her remains. The pistol which caused this deplorable calamity was placed in the cupboard, loaded and capped, by one of the farm servants. He had previously been firing it. The verdict was " Accidental death."  A DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE was committed last week in the church of All Souls', Langham. place, the fine picture of "Jesus Crowned with Thorns," which was valued at 8001., having been completely destroyed, and the letters " 1.H.5." cut out from the front of the cloth covering the communion table. The outrage is supposed to have been the act of a fanatic.  LORD REDESDALE met with a serious accident while out with the Heythrop Hounds on Monday. The horse ridden by the noble lord, in taking a low fence, stumbled and fell, throwing his lordship to the ground with great violence, and falling upon him. Medical assistance was at hand, when it was found that Lord Redesdale had been rendered insensible by the fall, but fortunately no bones were broken, and, having soon rallied, he was removed in a fly to his seat, Batsford park. The noble lord is progressing as favourably as can be expected. AN ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE of a mo3t frightful and determined character has been made by a girl named Hannah King, aged thirteen years, by placing herself on the rails of the North London Railway, near Dalston-lane Bridge, at the time a train was approaching. She is the daughter of respectable parents, living at N 0.6, Frederick place, Kingslandroad, and was in the service of Mr. Johnson, of 47,  Stanley-road, Dalston. On Saturday last she was requested by her master to take back some candles to a shop in the Kingsland-road to be exchanged for better. She proceeded first, however, to her parents' house, and when there began to weep most bitterly. On being asked the cause, she said she was not satisfied with her situation, and should come home. Her mother said that she could not afford to have her at home. The unfortunate girl in an excited manner then replied, " Very well, I shall go away, and you will not see me any more," and left the house. At the shop to which she was sent, she told the man to send the candles to Mr. Johnson's, as she was not going back any more. Nothing tur. the' was heard of her until about a quarter after six o'clock in the evening, when a man named Finch, who was pas'ing over the Dalston-lane Bridge, heard violent screams for help proceeding from the railway, and on getting on the line found the girl lying on the ground, with the blood pouring from some frightful wounds on her legs, which had been caused by the wheels of a train which had a few moments before gone past. Without delay she was conveyed to the German Hospital, where it was found she bad received most serious injuries, one of her feet having been completely severed from her leg. Both her legs had to be amputated, and she lies in a very precarious state.  Two WOMEN WERE KILLED, and several persons were scalded, at the Independent Calvinist Chapel in Ryecroft, Ashton.under•Lyne, on the 13th inst., by the explosion of a boiler placed in a cellar under the chapel, which was used to heat water for the purpose of warming_the chapel by pipes running round the building.  A GLASGOW COTTON FACTORY, the property of Messrs. Grant and Sons, was totally destroyed by fire on the 12th inst. In less than half an hour the roof fell in with a tremendous crash, and the walls soon began to follow, toppling outwards and inwards in all directions. The value of the property lost is estimated at 60,0001. to 70,0001. This unfortunate occurrence will throw five or si; hundred hands out of work. 

Article type: Incident