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TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. ) FIVE KILLED, AND TWENTY.TWO INJURED. About one o'clock on Sunday morning a terrible accident happened to the midnight mail from Car- lisle to the South. The train, one minute behind time, left Carlisle Citadel Station at 12 48 a.m. con- sisting of engine and tender, the usual complement ef vans, and 13 vehicles. At St. Nicholas, about a third of a mile south of the station, there is a signal lor placed near a point at which several lines tf rails converge. Close to the signal box, and on its south side, the main line of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway is crossed by a branch line of the North Eastern Railway, running from Carlisle Canal Station of the North British Railway to Har- raby Hill goods station of the North Eastern Rail- way. This branch line crosses the main line of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway from north-we3t to south-east, at an angle of about thirty degrees. The South mail having just left Carlisle Station was running at a speed of about 10 or 15 miles an hour. Just as half of the train had passed the crossing, a goods train consisting of 26 waggons, travelling from the Canal Station at a rate of about ten miles an hour, ran into it with a fearful crash. The re- suits of the collision were most disastrous. Five passengers were killed, 22 others were more or less seriously injured, and there was great destruction of railway property. Seven carriages of the passenger train were more or less smashed. Some had their sides crushed in, one had its end knocked out, but the most serious damage of all was to a third-class carriage, about the middle of the train. This was completely destroyed. With the exception of the roof, which seems to have been jerked off in one piece, the carriage was broken into thousands of j little pieces. At the south-east angle of the in- tersecfcing lines there is a siding of the Lancaster and Carlisle line, with an abutment fitted with buffers at the end of it. Against this strong structure, which is composed of massive blocks of freestone, the third-class carriages had been hurled with a terrific force, and at once smashed into splinters. Directly opposite this abutment, and about 25 yards from the point of collision, the engine of the goods train, after being slewed" round by the move- ment of the mail train, had run off the rails and burrowed into the ground. The engine and guard's van, post-office van, and four or five passenger car- riages had got clear away, the collision having broken some of the couplings, and thus freed the first part of the train. The collision happened just at the darkest part of the night, and the scene that j ensued was of a heartrending description. In the midst of the bustle of the railway, men who had hurried to the spot from the railway shed, about 200 yards distant, and from the Citadel station; who heard the shouts of passengers and the groans | of those who had been injured. Messengers were at once despatched for surgical assistance, and in a very short time Mr. Page and Mr. Brown, sur- geons, Carlisle, were on the spot. Meanwhile, the energies of the railway workmen were directed to recovering the bodies of those who had been either killed or injured. Among the first of the bodies found dead was a boy, the son of Mr. Little, of Trevor Square, London, who had been coming from School in Scotland, accompanied by his father. The boy was quite dead. and his father had sustained a severe scalp wound. Immediately beyond the buffer abutment was found lying Mr. Lynch, Roman Catholic inspector of schools, from Glasgow, who had been killed. He was accom- panied by his wife and child. Mrs. Lynch was considerably injured on the face, her upper jaw was broken, and her teeth were knocked out. The three made a painful group, for it was long before Mrs. Lynch could be persuaded that her husband was dead. The injured were removed to the County Hotel, whither they were followed by Mr. Page and Mr. Brown, the surgeons; and it was not until they had been absent some time that a message was sent to them that three more bodies had been found npon the top of the abutment, covered by the roof of the smashed carriage. These three were lying huddled together, quite dead, and had apparently been of one party. They consisted of a gentleman and two ladies, all dressed in mourning. The gentleman was said to be a commercial traveller, named Pat- rick Watt, from Paisley, and the two ladies by whom he is accompanied are supposed to be uis reo latives The fo1 lowing is a list of the killed and wounded:- Killed Mr. Lynch, Roman Catholic Inspector of Schools, Glasgow; a boy, son of Mr. Little, Trevoi Square, London; Patrick Watt, commercial travel- ler, Paisley; Two ladies who were with Mr. Watt, and are supposed to be relatives of his. Injured: Miss Johnston, Glasgow; fractured leg. Mr. Cross, Bonner Road, London, who lay half an hour with his foot under the goods engine, consider- able injury to the ankle. Mr. Marshall, pupil en- gineer, Birmingham; scalp wound. Mrs. Lynch. wife of Mr. Lynch who was killed; jaw broken, teeth knocked out, and severely shaken. With her, a son about eight years of age, who is not much worse, and a German maid, whose hand ha.d been wounded, and whose arm had been a good deal bruised. Mr. Logan, merchant, Glasgow; leg in- jured. Mr. Easton, tailor, Wolverhampton, bruised. Mrs. Sutherland and two children, (address not ascertaided,) not much worse. Mrs. Oakley, Mother- well severe internal injuries. With her, a child, Henry Weeks much bruised. Mrs. Barsett, Cale- donian Road, Glasgow, and two children; all shaken and faces much scratched. Thomas Martindale, Stainton, near Carlisle; bruised in the back. Mr. Hancock, Birmingham; bruised about the head, and concussion of brain. Mr. Baxter, Glasgow; bruised. Mr. Mitchelson, Glasgow; sides injured. Mr. White, bricklayer, Birmingham; scalp wound and side hurt. Mr. Little, Trevor Square, London, (father of the boy who was killed) large wound on scalp. It appears that the goods train usually leaves the canal station at about three o'clock in the morning, except on Saturdays, when it leaves about midnight. On Saturday night it seems this goods train was not in charge of the engine driver, but was being driven by a stoker. As to the signalling, all was signalled clear for the mail to pass the crossing, but the signal on the north-eastern branch was at dangar. About thirty yards on the north-west of the crossing, on the north-eastern branch, there is a notice-board, erected by order of the Board of Trade. This board states that no engine pass the point until the crossing signal is lowered. The crossing signal was not lowered, and as the signals for the crossing west to east and main up line from north and south are lock signals, and one cannot be opened while the other is, shut, nor vice versa, it Follows that the North-Eastern train was signalled not to pass the crossing. 0

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