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DREADFUL RAILWAY AGCIDENT…

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DREADFUL RAILWAY AGCIDENT NEAR WARRINGTON. On Saturday forenoon a very dreadful accident occurred near Warrington. The 10 23 train from Liverpool to Birming- ham and London left Bank Quay station at 11 25, taking up several passengers, and on approaching Walton Junction the driver saw ahead a coal train, which efforts were being Hade to shunt on to the Chester line. He did not deem it Necessary to slacken speed, not doubting that the way would be clear. The coal trucks, however, had scarcely left the Wain line when the passenger train reached the points. The points were not turned, and the passenger engine rushed into the coal trucks. The driver and fireman escaped with comparatively slight injuries, having, it is supposed, lumped for their lives when they saw a collision to be in- evitable, and the passenger engine was driven right into the breakman's van of the coal train, and firmly lodged there. The first two or three of the passenger carriages—one In particular, a second-class-were broken to pieces and overturned, and five of the passengers were killed J&d a large number injured. The wreck was awful. Immediately after the occurrence, intelligerce was con- veyed to Warrington, and assistance procured. The stationmaster, was immediately on the spot, and directed the movements of the men engaged in clearing the line and Wting out the dead and wounded. One after another, as the remains of the front carriages were removed, the mutilated bodies of men and women were taken up and conveyed to places of safety. All the medical men in War- Jjpgton whose services were available were sent for, and they repaired to the spot without a moment's delay, doing U that human effort could to allay the sufferings of the bounded. A special train was sent from Warrington with a dumber of first-class carriages, to bring the wounded on to Warrington. Some of the dead bodies were also brought on, and placed in the waiting rooms at Bank Quay station. Shortly after the accident a passenger from Liverpool- one among many who had a providential escape-said that J16 was seated in the next carriage to that which was broken •o atoms. Before the final crash—not more than one moment—he felt that a collision was inevitable; it seemed, moment—he felt that a collision was inevitable; it seemed, said, to come on "gradually," and he made an effort to out by the door, but found himself locked in. The car-. J^sge was overturned. Having received no severe injuries he managed to crawl out. A lady, he said, in the same carriage was killed; she was on the same seat with him, sitting next jo the window. He was at her elbow. When the crash came &e sprang from the seat and got down, then the carriage "lelit over and he found his way out. A lady who was with Ili. seemed hardly conscious of her movements at the moment of the collision. She said, I was in the same car- ria8e. but can't tell how I got out." She did not seem to °ave received the least injury. Under one of the carriages lay a lady and gentleman whose egs were tightly pressed down by a portion of the frame- Work of the carriage. The gentleman was in a dreadful state of excitement, but the lady, who is married, and under was perfectly cool, and implored that her legs might at once be amputated, in order that she might be released from unpleasant position The medical men of course would Spt consent to this summary mode of treatment, and it was three quarters of an hour before deliverance came. Neither "J the two was much hurt, but the gentleman died shortly his extrication, no doubt from the shock to his nervous ystem, while the lady joined her husband, and was able to osiune her journey without further delay. The matron from the workhouse, with an efficient staff of BP was in attendance, and several ministers and other jsentlemen rendered their valuable services in alleviating Bat- of the injured passengers. In some cases the dnn n's exPressed a wish to make their wills, and this was 111 proper legal form for them. The surgeons also tiilf ec* at the hospital and rendered every assistance in ueir power. Staff6 keads °f the several railway departments, with their carm Tere also PromPtly on the spot, and too much praise tor-tv, .^e bestowed upon the members of the police force r their prompt and praiseworthy exertions. met ? ^ne.was very soon cleared of the dibris, none of the flesnw beinS torn up, and some of the passengers were London 6d M *ar as Crewe by the 12.30 express train for The number of passengers who received injuries so serious thp reclu're surgical aid is officially stated to be 33. Of jese one was sent, at his own request, to Bury Lane, five to wIerP°°l> four (one since dead) to the Patten Arms Hotel, jarrington, and 23 to the Convalescent Hospital. Under tirin Ca^e °* ^Ir- Spinks, surgeon, who has been un- Der« attendance upon the wounded, lie at least 12 tarvf3 seriously injured. The correspondent of a contempo- jgy, in passing through the hospital wards, says that he saw hurl i om?s Jones, of Wolverhampton, who had been With a8ainst the arm of the carriage in which he rode tttrfi !U4C, violence that he sustained a compound frac- the leg and other dreadful wounds. He lay quietly Who i i his hands folded on his breast, and no one bow Rooked at his uncomplaining face could have guessed HpLjac^.u* were the injuries from which he was suffering. k*8 w'" on Saturday afternoon, believing that he aying, and after lingering on through Sunday he breathed jr** last at half-past five on Monday morning. Another man dn ?n a bed immediately opposite insensible, whom, the "?ctor said, could not possibly long survive. Other cases ^suffering, less dreadful only by comparison with these were being cared for in the same ward. Mrs. Partridge, Oakford-house, near Exeter, died at the Patten Arms," Sunday morning. She had been on a visit to Liverpool, was returning home in company with her son. When coUision occurred both were thrown out of the carriage, naing at some distance from each other, and while the dangeon was attending the young man, as one of the most Whn rous'y injured, he was called away to attend a lady tart •^as sa^ to be dying, and who proved to be Mrs. flea!?1 j' When he returned to the son, he found him «**> and the mother did not survive him many hours. «on^ong the iniure(i are two Americans, who were in this Cain for ^le time. Their names are Bowley. They Of «! -England as snake charmers, and carried two boxes but 6 rePtiles. Both men are injured about the head, thpino^ very severely. Their anxiety, however, relative to r Property was great. The poor fellows are sadly bewil- k&Eapt are care of some friends in Wolver- The only body remaining for some time unrecognised, was *?at of an elderly lady, whose name was found out under BiOgUlar circumstances. After the Jury had seen the bodies fcn .Monday, they were stripped for burial, and an inside Jacket was then discovered in the dress worn by the unknown which had the following address upon it: Mrs. Sarah Con 4, Priory Grove, LiverpooL Mr. Hunt, the Chief nstable, at once telegraphed to that address, giving a des- n °* body. In the evening, a son-in-law of deceased ll(i ^oaePh W. Chatfield—arrived from Liverpool: but tha „s?0Der did he get out of the train at Warrington, •* was seized with a fit, and remained insensible for a (j-rfderable time. It was under these circumstances not fer-n advisable that he should see the body. When he be covered, however, he was shown the articles found upon and at once identified them, but on the following morn- Ceaa ,e was seized with a fresh succession of fits. The de- rjweaMrs. Cocking is said to be the widow of a late eminent On Manchester. At the time of the accident she was Doow way to Birmingham, and a subpoena was found in her givp from which it was discovered that she was to have of xl evidence this week in some will case before the Court "robate, in London. .Monday afternoon an inquest upon four of the bodies hellf ^ad been carried to the Norton Arms, Latchfleld, was in that hous% before the coroner, Mr. W. Dunstan. names of the deceased were James Gill, James Partridge, Gibson, and Mary Elizabeth Adcock. loiln • a few preliminary remarks from the Coroner, the Rowing witnesses were called :— 8tr«i ^dwin Roberts, commission agent, residing in King- to] T? Warrington, who identified the body of James Gill, of 1, Pershore-road, Birmingham, commission agent: thfiv.' Reynolds, tanner, of Latchford, who identified livo y of his ccmsin, James Partridge, of Kirkdaie, near -¡verpool Dorrt Adcock, of 7, Canton-street, Everton, Liver- 5"% commission agent, who identified the body of his Livg ter, Elizabeth, aged 27, schoolmistress, residing at Ar^001 > an<* id^t'-c"rll02?aSv.'kjinbf °l 01d Swan, Liverpool, who citified the body of his brother-in-law, Edmund Gibson, g^lantressant, in the county of Glamorgan, mining en- j0^the completion of this evidence, the inquest was ad- t04 searching inquiry into all the circumstances which led rn„he accident has been instituted by the managers of the and North Western Railway Company, but nothing "nportance has been elicited beyond the main facts Bhtfady published. It is clear that the coal train was duly tho • to permit the passenger train to proceed, that thfi Slgnal "all right" was given by the pointsman; that that Passenger train went on at full speed; and thpiL when it reached the junction points it found f. m open instead of being closed, and so followed and Oj/ii*nto the coal train before a break could be put on, Wer i team shut off. The question as to how the points Tvj],6 left open and with whom the blame rests is one which *ndi ktless be clearly answered at the coroner's inquest, tioriitlle meanwhile, the pointsman in charge at the junc- thn » as been suspended, and remains in town awaiting B fesult of the inquiry.

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