The Welsh Coast Pioneer and Review for North Cambria

PERSONAL. k Lord Harleoh returned to Brogyntyn from Bcotfand on .Saturday. The estate of Mr S. J. Waring, of Liverpool, fatner of the High-She.iff of Denbighshire, has Leen valued for probate at £78,785 gross. Captain F. A. K. White, Royal Engineers, has bow; apixjinted adjutant of the Royal Anglesey Royal Engineer?, vice Captain F. S. S. GeneTS; Royal E ngmeers, whose tenure of that appoint- I ment has expired. The Rev. E. II. Davies, who recently returned heme to Machynlleth from Calcutta, where he had laboured as a missionary under the auspices of the London Missionary Society, has, owing to the state of his health, sent in his resignation. Dr. Roberts, the senior missionary in tho Welsh mission lield in Khassia, and Principal of the Native College at Cherra-Poonjee, with his wifo and daughter, left London on Saturday on their way to India, to resume their duties there after a holiday of eighteen months in this country and America. An engagement is announced between Captain W. M. Kington, D.S.O., 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, eldest son of the late Lieut.-Colonel W. M. N. Kington, 4th Hussars, late of Charlton Lodge, Wraxall, Somerset, and Edith Mary, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Frederic W. Soames, of Bryn Estyn, Wrexham.

LORD COCHRANE3 MAJORITY CELEBRATIONS. INTERESTING PRESENTATIONS TO HIS LORDSHIP. The first cf tho many presentations to be made to Lord Cochrane on the attainment of his ma- jority, took phce at Gwrych Castle, Abergele, on Tuesday, in the presence of the Countess of Dun- donald and Lady Jean Cochrane, when the ser- vants tnd emplcyees of the Gwrych Estate pre- fented his lordship with a solid silver cigarette cote. Mr Herring, who has been in the service of the Counters for many years, and was also in the servije of tho late Mn Hesketh, of Gwrych, made the presentation on behalf of the servants. He said:—"We, the servants of Gwrych Castle and London, and employees, would ask your lordship to accept from us a small memento of our best wishes for your lordship's welfare.* We wish your lordship a long and happy life, not only to be a good and generous neighbour, but to be a good citizen of the British Empire, whom the country will expect to represent in politics or war, when we are sure the fighting capabilities of the Coch- ranes will find in your lordship a noble represen- tative." His Lordship, in reply, said:—"I do not know how to express my feelings for the kindness you have shown in presenting me with 1;}¡is beautiful cigarette box. I shall always treasure it, and con- eider it one of the most valuable of the pre- sents I shall receive, and not only on account of its intrinsic value, which is considerable, but also for its value as showing your kindness to- wards me. I do not know how to express my thanks, as the present is so unexpected. I thank you very much for your kindness" (applause). The cigarette case bore the inscription:—"To Lord Cochrane, from the servants of Gwrych Castle, on his coming-of-age, February 21st, 1907." Mr Herring then made a presentation on be- half of himself and Mrs Herring, of a silver cigarette lighter and ash tray, which was suitably inscribed. These also his lordship accepted with many thanks. TOWYN PARISHIONERS' GIFT. In addition to the presentations already re- ported, the parishioners of Towyn intend to present to his lordship a pair of field glasses. In connection with the forthcoming festivities, the Countess of Dundonald is negotiating for the engagement of a Welsh choir, conducted by Mr Edward Parry, of Abergele, with view to ob- taining their assistance in entertaining the guests at the Castle on Wednesday evening, 30th inat. The Llanddulas Silver Band have also been engaged for Thursday, October 31st.

DEATH OF AN ANGLESEY CENTENARIAN. There passed away on Sunday morning a noted Welshman, in the person "of the Rev. Hugh Prichard, who expired at his residence, Dinam Mall, Gaerwen, Anglesey, in his rOlst year On the 25th of February last Mr Prichard 5 100th birthday was celebrated and the, old gentleman drove in an open carnage to the Tillage (Llangaffo) to receive an address of con- gratuiatic-n, the day being given to general re- joicing by the inhabitants. On that occasion Mr Prichard was the recipient of a message from the King, who congratulated him upon the at- tainment of his 100th birthday. Of late Mr Prichard had been failing, and La gradually passed away ac stated.

"ALONG THE COAST." (By a Travelling: Correspondent). I was pleased to see In the Pioneer" last week Round Peg's" proposition that an amateur bowling league should be formed to be composed of the clubs in Chester and North Wales. It was a timely recommendation, coming at the end of a season when bowlers wiU have the leisure to make such prospective arrangements as the formation of a league would entail. Bowls is a game for busy men, and for leisured men, for vigorous, energetic men, and for feeble men. It will entertain young men as pleasurably as old men, and while the cleverest players always win in the long run, there is a spice of luck about it which gives it the distinction of being a true sport and not merely a scientific performance in which all the spoils go to the men of cold- blooded, calculating precision 1 < Well do I remember the time when along the coast there was not a solitary green. In my occasional travels in the county of Lancaster, I have noted the surprising num- ber of greens to be found in that county, and I have been reading in the papers late- ly glowing reports of the famous Blackpool bowling tournament, in which the exeat men of Lancashire have been disclosing to admiring throngs of lookers-on their style and knack" of winning renown and prizes. Something of the kind oueht to be held on this coast every year for our North Wales players, with open" competitions, which would attract noted players from other parts of the country. Rhyl was the first Welsh coast resort to lay down a modern crown green, and now Rhyl has ob- tained that lead in bowls which Llandiudno has gained in tennis and biHiards. Colwyn Bay has followed, and Llandudno, after several years of make-shift with a bit of sward in Mostyn-street, is having a very fine green indeed provided for its growing club on land adjoining the cricket ground. II The Denbigh green is one of the most picturesque in the country, on a kind of terrace just below the Castle, and the club at Denbigh is of very old standing and it has always been considered a mark of gentility to belong to it. If you were elected a member of the Denbigh Bowling Club, you might consider yourself admitted to the haut ton of the town Ruthin has a god green, belonging to the Conservative Club, I believe, and a race of fine bowlers is rising up in that little town among the artizan population. Round Peg" mentions a green at Llanrwst that is not now in use. Wc must arouse the Roosters" to greater interest in bowls, a game which has one virtue which docs not belong to many of our modern pastimes- it is inexpensive to the player. That dis- used green in Llanrwst must be restored to its proper, legitimate status. I concur with Round Peg" in thinking that many very desirable Lancashire visitors. who are fond of bowling would make this coast a holiday ground if they knew there were public greens here, and a bowling community who would take a good deal of beating. it An important meeting of the Cowlyd Board seems to have been held last Friday. Time was when the Cowlyd Board were celebrated throughout North Wales for their liveliness at the meetings. They were almost as famous as the Abcrystwyth Town Council! All sorts of situations arose calling for vigorous and picturesque debates in the presence of the reporters, who, of course, hastened to present their spicy nar- ratives to curious readers. But, now, the moment everything hum-drum at the meet- ings has been disposed of, and anything it would be worth while to hear begins to happen, the pressmen—so they tell us in their reports—are asked to withdraw. The result is, naturally, a growing curiosity to know what the Board are up to. But I think we may safely assume that the mem- bers are earnestly doing their best for the authorities they represent. < < They arc faced with a difficult business, for they have to undo, to some extent, the mistakes of their predecessors. The mis- takes were not those of commission, but of omission. On the whole that original Board did a fine for Colwyn Bay and Conway, obtaining property and rights of great value. But they left loopholes which they might have stopped up at the time for a few pounds, but which it will, possibly, now take an Act of Parliament and con- siderable sums in compensation to make proof against attack. The Board may only take water from the lake in a twelve inch pipe. The twelve inch pipe is laid from the lake down the valley to above Dolgarrog. Here it enters an iron pipe which conducts it down to the ball valve chamber, 500 feet above sea level, close to the Dolgarrog Fall. We get our water at Colwyn Bay and Con- way from that ball valve chamber, and the pressure which drives it up to the pumping station in the Pwllycrochan Woodr, (for Upper Colwyn Bay), and to the pumping station near Penmaenrhos (for Llysfaen) is obtained from this 590 feet "head" at Dolgarrog. If the ball valve chamber at Dolgarrog were higher than 500 feet, we would get a correspondingly greater pres- sure, and with it more water, but the lia- bility to burst pipes would be all the greater. < » Now, the next twelve inch pipe (of earthenware), leading from the guage chamber near Lake Cowlyd to the top of the precipice at Dolgarrog will deliver water enough to fill two twelve inch pipes from the ball valve chamber to Colwyn Bay and Conway, and the present scheme, which the Local Government Board appear to have sanctioned, is to lav a second twelve inch main from that chamber to Sarn Mynach. The easement the Board obtained from Lord Newborough only gave them the right to take water in one twelve inch main from the lake, and the language used in describing this right is being read to mean that, if the second pipe line is laid down, that will be taking water from the lake through two twelve flfch mains instead of one only, which is all that the Board have at present legal authority to do. » » ft' » The Board themselves have always held that they were entitled to have the earthen- ware pipe filled to its utmost capacity, and to carry away from Dolgarrog all the water that it would bring down, no matter how many mains it would take to do it. From the first, the engineer, Mr Farrington, has contemplated duplicating the mains from the foot o-f the Dolgarrog precipice to the constituent districts, and the suggestion that this would be taking water from the lake in greater quantity than is authorised by the easement is, by the Board, scouted as absurd. It now appears that the Cowlyd Board have granted to the Aluminium' Corpora- tion, whose works near Llanrwst arc being built, permission to lay a transmission line along the water-shed of the lake, which is the property of the Board. It appears, from the letter of the Aluminium Corporation, dated September 19th, which was before the Board, that the transmission line is to be laid along the north-west bank of the lake, and that it is to convey electrical current from the North Wales Power Co.'s station in Nant Gwynant to the Aluminium Co.'s Works in the Vale of Conway. Evidently the Corporation do not intend to wait until their great dam across the elevated Cwm Eigian is completed before they commence the strange process of extracting from the argilaceous ore the refractory aluminium metal. They mean to buy electrical power for this process from the North Wrales Power Co. Aluminium is a valuable metal, and good profits arc made by the companies which arc engaged in its produeti in, though a great decrease in the price cl the metal has recently taken place.

It is announced that Mr John D. Rockefeller has given a further sum of £120,000 for the de- velopment of Chicago University, which has benefited by his generosity to the exteai « £ AO •lets than

HIGH SPEED CAUSE OF THE DISASTER. One of the most appalling railway disasters of recent years occurred at an early hour on Tues- day morning just outside Shrewsbury Station, and the number of killed is stated at 19, while 34 people were seriously injured. The train, an express made up of London and North-Western, Great Western, and Caledonian Railway Companies' rolling stock, was running from the North to South WaJes, and it carried a large number of excursionists returning home. It left Crewe at 1.20, and was due at Shrewsbury at 2.5 a.m., but a short distance outside the north end of the station the locomotive jumped the track at a curve, cleared a number of parallel lines, and turned turtle, tearing up the permanent way for a considerable distance, The carriages were pi:ed one upon another, and the wreckage was terribie, many of the carnag<p being rcduced to matchwood, and then* occupants buried underneath. The train involved was the London and North- western mail train from Crewe to the West of England, due at Shrewsbury shortly after two o'clock. Although the ipignals were at danger, and there is an awkward curve from the Crewe line into Shrewsbury Station, the train, accord- ing to official testimony, approached the junction at a high rate of speed. When the engine reached the points, about fifty yards from the station, it jumped the line, turned over on its side, and in an instant was a complete wreck. Only one carriage kept the rails, while the rest were piled up, one on top of another, against t-he engine. There were about a hundred people on the train and of these sixteen were killed out-right (including the driver, fireman, and front guard). Three have since died in the inhrmary, and thirty-four were injured. Of the nineteen killed only eight at the time of writing had been identified. This appalling list of casualties explains the ex- tent of the disaster, but scarcely indicates the dramatic completeness of the catastrophe. The whole terrible business, was confined to an area of not more than fifty square yards, and a more tragic scene than that presented by the wrecked express could scarcely be conceived. It was raining heavily at the time of the accident, and the untoward weather made the work of rescue more difficult. The engine, in falling dead across the rails, made an absolute block for the heavy line of coaches which it was hauling. As the train was travelling at from fifty to sixty miles an hour, the impetus of the compact was terrific, and something had to give. The 100-ton engine lay like a rock, immovable, and the carriages were telescoped, jammed to- gether, and piled up in an almost unrecognisable mass of wreckage and ruin. A GHASTLY SPECTACLE. Few railway disasters have presented a more ghastly spectacle. The engine and tender lay athwart the metals, battered into fantastic shapes. The remainder of the train lay in one chaotic mass, with passenger-coaches mail-vans, and fish-truoks inextricably commingled. Rails were torn up and girders wrenched away, wh'ne broken glass, shatterred doors, lamps, and cush- ions torn from their place, turbot and brill fMm the fish-trucks, jagged refreshment baskets, and gaping mail-bags, were strewn about in every direction. ^t One carriage had climbed right on top of four or five others, and rested upon the wreck at right angles to the line. Two ladies were in this coach at the time of the disaster, and after the first paralyzing shock they were actually able to ciimb diown from their dangerous position without a scratch. This perilously poised coach was the central feature in the picture presented by the catas- trophe. Around it was grouped the wbole ghastly paraphernalia of death and destruction. The more one gazed at the Gccne, the more one marvelled that the death-roll had not Lw-en still higher. The smash was, so centra.ised that the various carriages seemed to be the several parts of an unwieldy and grotesquely-shaped What actually happened at the moment of the disaster was very graphically portrayed by a. porter at Shrews-bury Station, who was on duty at the time. These are the eimply-phrased but extraordinarily dramatic impressions which he gave a reporter. "We were waiting on the platform, he said, "just after two o'clock for the on-coming express, and, looking down the line, I noticed her rush- ing along at a very high rate of speed. I knew there was a dangerous, curve in front of her. although not so bad a curve as at Salisbury, but before I had time to speculate on what was like- ly to happen, I heard a tremendous crash, and ..saw a great sheet of flame flare up from the funnel of the engine. i "I knew what had happened, and wir-n my mates I rushed up to the spot. When ive got t'here a heartrending spectacle met our gaze. The train was a complete wreck, and nom amongst the wreckage there were ud shrieks and groans and ories for help. You may guess what it was like. The .foremost carriages were badly smashed up, being toppled one en the top of the other, while the mail-van seemed to have its interior torn right out. But the rear portion of the train had not suffered nearly go much. All the people in the fore part of the j train seemed to be either dead or dying, and I noticed that the majority of 1-hcm were men. "We immediately set to work to get them out by breaking open the doore and emashmg the windows. The platelayers lit a fire of all the available debris, for it was dark and rain- ing hard; in fact, the rain was so bad that it put the fire out at once, and we had to jight it again. ESCAPED THROUGH THE WINDOWS. "The passengers in the rear portion of the train were able to get out pretty well by them- selves, for their injuries seemed to be slight shock, knocks-, and cuts from the broken glaes. In Borne cases they forocd doors, and got out through the windows. Many of .the injured in the other portion of the train had broken limbs, while those who were killed emed to have been terribly hurt about the head. "Hour after hour we worked, getting them out. and as they were released the dead were taken to the station mortuary, for-which one of tho waiting-rooms had been utilized; and tho injured were conveyed on ambulances to the infirmary, after being seen by doctors. Those who were slightly hurt, however, or only badly shaken, after having been attended to, went their way, many of them returning to Crewe by tho early train. Breakdown gangs, both Lon- don and N.-Western and Great Western, were soon on the scene, and it was only with the aid of their jacks that we were able to get out somo of the dead. In fact they are not all out yet." The closing sentence of this vivid impres- sionistic sketch is a reminder of tho more dis- tressing features of the work of rescue. The front guard, who, along, with the driver and fireman, was instantaneously killed, was found head downward in a fish truck some distance away from his van. The fireman was pinned under the tender, and it was not until half-past four in the afternoon that the breakdown gang were abi-e to release him. Still another body, that of a young woman, was known to be under the dobris at the time, but it was hoped to re- cover the corpse during the night. Amid tI}¡!e frightful scenes of suffering and sonriow whic'h were enacted' at unrewr-lwiry more than one hiercfio action was performed. The local d;oc-.torf, fraud railway officials who weira summoned to the scene worked with tremond- or courage a,nd energy throughout the night, and a wotmam showed1 heroic courage in the hour of crisis. TORE OFF HER PETTICOAT. Mra Maybee, of Exmouth. one of the passen- gers by ill-fated express, immediately she had satisfied hersolif tHiat her infant daTKrhtrr was set to work to do what she could to help those wfho weme in worse "light. She as- eieted five or BIlX of the injured to a waiting- room, and in the abswnoe -of doctors and dres- sings she tore off ihe-r petticoat and ripped it up into bam|lag(l«. Cua-ioueiy enough Mrs Maybee's mother 'had implored her not to make the jour- ney, as cfie !had a presentiment that something was going to happen. <> DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT'S STORY. ACCIDENT CAUSED THROUGH EXCES- SIVE SPEED. The London and North-Western Railway Company's officials at Shrewsbury freely ad- mitted that the cause of the disaster was tho den-ailment of the engine, consequent upen the curve being taken atari excessive rate of speed. The tc-s+imony of botlh tiho signalmen and tho rear guard is to liho effect that the train was travelling unusually fast, a.nd their reports were nindo known in a semi-official state- ment by Mr Hariris, the deputy superin- tenement of the G.W. and L.N.W. joint lime on -which the accident occurred. ''1be train*" eaid Mir Harrig, "Nvaa one (If the Bristol expresses. It waa due to Crewe at 1.20 and to arrive at Stirewsfcury, where it stops, at 2.5. It had the Scotch mails on board, and joins at Shrewsbury a portion ilrom the North. The composition ti the train was ais follows: — London and No run- w estern engine 2052 (one of the large new class)- Lonc^n and North-Western eight-wheel brake-van* Tniree Great Western eight-wheel brake com- posite carriages- Two London and North-Western eight-wheel brake-vane. Two mail carnages and a parcel sorting van. Land on and North Western eight-wheel com- posite carriage. London and North-Western six-wheel van. Caledoniam eigfot-wheel composite carriage. Caledonian eight-wheel van. Caledonian four-wheel fisih-truck. West Coast Joint fish van. "In our calculation, that made up a train equal to 19 vehicles, making a nretty heavy train- Tlietre were a number of returning ex- curEiion .passengers on it, chiefly to Soutli Wales. Of tihe wihole lot there was only one vehicle which stuck to the rails, and that was tho last. The vehicle in front of that has two wheels- 0:1 tlhe rails, but the whole of the pas- senger coaches leift the metals. "Tho train should arrive at 2.7 opposite the signal-box at fine junction. It had passed th-c eigiial-box in the rear, according to the signal- mam'p statement, at a speed of about fifty or sixty miles an lbour, and alii his signals wero at danger; in fact, signals at both boxes were at damger. Tho regulation speed round the curve is about ten mitea an hour. "There was a train (Standing at the platform, but not at tlio one to which the Bristol express have come in 1 Hie train standing at t'ho platform was the portion which would have joined the wrecked express- The lino was not absolutely clear into the station, and in accord- ance with our -regulations the drivef was warn- ed at the outside section. "The signatltman can say northing about the disaster except that the train approached at am unusual speed, and aid that he c-otilcl see was the mnrtfh. It was training heavil" at the time. Night-Inspector Griffiths was in charge of the station, and at the time of the accident the staff on duty were atte-ad,ing to the train al- ready on tiho platform. There is a lot of work with this group etf trains early in the morning, for they a-r-O mail trains,, and there is also a very largo trammer of fish traffic, and all that sort of thing. "There are usually four guards on this train, and Guard II. Birch,, who worked' tlhe rear por- tion, states in his report to us that the train was running faster than usual- He went to a.pply tlhe vacuum brakes on realising that fact, but found it had already beon done- All the signals wore against the train;, and the guard supposed tihat the driver, noticing that he was running past tihe signals, put the brakes on. They aire on now, in fact." MR TURNBULL'S THEORY. Mr lliirie's theory of the accident is now borne out by Mr it. Tuirnbull, toe superinten- dent ttf tne ij.N-W.R-, who was on the line directing the removal ot the debris- "We can aw-ign no cause for the accident,Mr Tu.ntbmU r,.a,ld. "except by looking at re- sults- 1'iie driver, fireman, and guard Me kiiiled, and our experience is tlhat this would not have happened il the train ,ad not been travelling at too high a rate of speed. We cannot teli now wihat the poor fellow was thinking- -of or doing. Thip is by far the most sorious accident tho L. and N• -YV. bave had since the Chelford diwaeter of 1893. and this is a wonse wreck than that." Mr Turrtbull wvaa asked if be could reoon- r/iruet the catastrophe. "It muøt have hap- pened in tftiie waj," he repliedt "The engine leiit the rails, tuirned over on ita side, and there- fore became a dead buffer for everything tnat came against it-a solid and immovable weight- The carriages oame up against it. and on ac- count of their heavy momentum rushed up in the air, in one case, as you see, five or six piled on top of one another. "The curve here firom the Crewe line to the Great Western main line from Birkenhead to Londbn is to the left, and some of the carriages fell to the right-hand side on to tho Great Weetern metals. The tender was cocked up in tOO air like a solid wall of rook. The engine was one of our latest type, the 6-wiheel coupled experini-e-At eilass- I may add imat the driver of tho oxprepg was a man who had been many years in our service. We had every confidence in him, and' he had an excellent reputation. SCENE OF THE DISASTER. To understand thoroughly the geography of the scene of the <faster, it should Lo expiained that Shrewsbury Station is in the foam of an X. The four points are made by the roads to London and Hereford, on the south side, and to Birkcn- head and Crewe on the north. The Great Wes- tern main line to Birkenhead goes on practically straight from the station, but the Crewe line describes a semi-circlo immediately on leaving the platform. It was in the middlo of this semi- circle that the disaster occurred, and both the London and North-Western and Great Western lines to the north were completely blocked. The Great Western main line was cleared in the course of a few hours, and a single line was cleared on the Crewe branch in the course of the after- noon, the first train arriving from the Cheshil Junction at two o'clock. In the meantime the Crewe-Shrewsbury traffic had been worked via Stafford. The Great Wes- tern main line traffic was slightly but not ap- preciably delayed. GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCIDENT BY A LADY EYE-WITNESS. A vivid description of the terrible scene jn Shrewsbury Station was given to a "Western Mail" reporter by a Cardiff ady, who was ai> eye-wit litvis of the accident. She is Mrs Fox, of Maricn-street, "Who was travelling from Ell- kenhead to Cardiff. She had to change at Shrewsbury, and was waiting on the plat.form for the arrival of the mail when he smash occurred. "I had my back to the direction from which the train came," she said, "but suddenly I heard a t-erribl-e crash-a noise that I cannot deeciibc. I jumped round, and in the darkness beyond the platform I could eee carriages and parts of carriages being pushed up (so it seemed) into a pile in the air, while some would topple away on their Rides. The carriages were piled up to a height which was equal to that of the platform roof. It was a horrible scene, and one which I can't seem to get out of my tight. Once a great black thing seemed to fly away from the side of the pile and fall on the rails seme distance from the rest of the wreck. They told me afterwards it was a. whole carriage that had fallen clear of the others. The noiso was so great that it completely drowned the ehoute and screams of t'ho passengers, and it was not till the debris had become settled and stationary that we could hear the groans of the injured beneath the wreck. STOOD STILL IN HORROR. "The.re were several railway men and acme passengers in the station when it happened, but for a moment or two they all seemed to be too horror-struck to be able to move. They just stood still and stared at the broken carriages. Then wo could see three men stumbling across the rails towards the platform. This seemed to break the spell, and they then all suddenly rushed to the line. The three passenger^ we had seen came across, to the plat-forom and raised themselves to it without assistance. The first two were young men, both with their faore covered with blood, which was Bowing from cuts on their heads. The third was a tall Welsh- man. He was c.arryin,g a rug over his shoulder, and simply walked round and round in a circle on the platform muttering, "My God! Oh, my God!' He seemed to be too frightened to know what he was doing. Someone touched him and asked if he were much hurt. Then ho turned and said he seemed to have had a b{)w on the back. "Meanwhile the rescuers had got to work amongst the debris, but it was so dark we could hardly see from tho platform what they were doing. They lit a wood fire on the line, which made it rather lighter, but, still one could only eee tha.t objects, which seemed to be human beings, were being lifted from the carriages'. The first that reached the platform was that of the guard, and he was carried on a stretcher to a waiting-room. I followed to ask if I CQu:d give any help. They laid him on the table, for he was unconscious, and then one of the men who had carried him suddenly re- cognised him. "MY GOD, IT'S TEW!" 'My God, it's Tew!' he shouted, convulsively working hia arms, and for a moment or two the poor fellow was too overcome to do anything. 'I am afraid he is gone too far,' I eaid; but they asked me to bathe his head, and left me. A few minutes after two men brought in a gen- tleman in their arms, and left me again bj

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BOARD OF TRADE* INQUIRY. SIGNALMAN'S EVIDENCE. TRAIN SAJD TO BE TRAVELLING 60 MILES AN HOUR. Colonel Yorke conducted the public Board of Trade inquiry, whioh was opened at the Raven Hotel, Shrewsbury, yesterday aiternoon. Mr Llcyd George attended, and at the outset rose to express his deepest sympathy on behalf of the Board of Trade, the Government, and the public generally with the relations of thoe who had died by this terrible accident, which had sent a thrill of horror throughout the whole country; also sympathy with those who had been injured EO seriously. It waa a matter of grati- fica.tioll to learn that most of the injured are doing well, and he sincerely hoped that the ghastly roll of dead would not be added to. Mr Waiters, solicitor for the companies con- cerned, re-echoed the words of the President of rc the Board of Trade, and was followed by Mr Thomas, representing the employees, who aeeo- ciated himself with what had been said, and olfered every assistance possible. John Beedleston, signalman at Crewe Bank box, gave some very remarkable and important evidence. Ho said, .replying to the inspector, that he went on duty at ten p.m. He had been in the service of the company thirty-five years, and at Shrewsbury thirty years. He described what was done before the approach of the ill-fated train, the regulations being on the block system. "When the train pafz6ed my box," said the witness, "all the eigna's were at danger. The train was running away. The epecd was very great." The Ins-pec tor: I want you to be very care- ful in your statement about this. Witness: The speed was sixty miles an hour. I had never &ecn anything like it in all my ex- perience. The standing instruction is ten miles an hour at the approaches to the station and eight ni Iles' limit on the joint section within the station. Edwin Ward, t.ho signalman at the Crewe junc- tion. Shrewsbury, deposed that he had been in the service of the company sixteen years. He was in his box on Monday night on duty at the time the up express was due. He had a warn- ing signal acknowledged at 2.6. When he first raw the train approaching it was passing his home signal. Was your home signal against it?—Yes, all the home and all the distance. Was it travelling at a high speed —Yes, at a terrific epeci--clxty miles an hour. Are you sure it was sixty miles an hour?— Yes. What sort of a night was it?—It was quite cr. ar. Did you see the train perfectly distinctly'— Yes. You see that this is a serious matter, and you feel sure it was sixty miles an hour?—Yes, sir. Part of the train came close to the signal- box. Some of the splinters came on to the steps and round the windows. Some portions of the coaches came right under the signal-box. What was your act-ion as soon as the accident occurred?—I set all danger signals in all directions on all I You know the time limit within the station?— Yes, ten mite". I did not notice whether the regulator of the engine was open. GUARD'S EVIDENCE. Henry Birch, guard, who worked the down train from Bristol to Crewe, and then rejoined for the journey to South Wales, said he knew Martin as a driver. "I had no anxiety as to its safety." They ieft Crewe eight minutes late, and made up three minutes between that p'ace and Shrewsbury. The train was fitted with an automatic continuous brake, and the witness began to think that Martin was travelling too fast when they got to Crewe Bank, Shrewsbury. At that moment ho found the brake had been put on to full force, and it remained eon until the accident occurred. The speed as they ap- proached Shrewsbury had been between fifty and sixty miles an hour. It i6 usual to reduce speed approaching the junction. Can you account for the driver not doing ro?- Ne. Mr Lloyd George: Have you no theory at all? —No, ti.r. The inquiry is proceeding. THE INQUEST OPENED. Yesterday afternoon the inquest on the victims of the terrible disaster was opened. AH the bodies were identified with tho ex- ception of three.

I A feature of the Dairy Show last week was a mechanical milker, which was exhibited in operation on eeveir-al oows at onioa.

MR LLOYD GEORGE AND TEMPERANCE. GOVERNMENT'S PLAN INDICATED. PLEDGE FOR COMING SESSION. The annual meetings of the United Kingdom Alliance were held at Mw-Wheater, on Tuesday, Mr Leif Jones, M.P., the president, took the chair at the general council. Mr Lloyd George, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, in the evening presided over a great public meeting held under the auspices of the Alliance in the Free Trade Hail. He said he could not tell them much about the ooaning Licensing Bill that night. In the first place, it was not in his Department (laughter). It was true that he was President of the Board of Trade, but that bad nothing to do with "the trade" (laughter). That was under another Department which had the control of the po\ce (loud and prolonged laughter). They of the Board of Trade had to watch the movements of trade, how JI was going, why it was going, and why it was not going—(hear, hear)—and that brought them straight to the liquor traffic. In the course of the inquiry, more especially during the last two years, into the trade and industry of this country and other countries, they had discovered that the liquor traffic in this country was a greater handicap to our trade and com- merce and industry than all the tariffs of the world put together (cheers). A further thing he found as the result of in- quiry was the effect that drink had upon the problem of the unemployed. Employers of labour attributed at least 30 per cent, of the permanent unemployment of the country to 1 efc drink. Germany had not got this hopeless mass to deal with. The first step in settling the pro- blem of une-mployed was to c'ear out this agency drink. He was told that the habit of drunkenness was decreasing amongst men. There was a gr -.iter sense, he was told, amongst workmen of the disgrace of being In drunk. A real ev,, ution had taken place very largely amongst the middle classes. They were now sober, and the upper classes were ccmparatively sober. But whilst drunkenness was decreasing amongst men, he was sorry to say that what he heard from a good many parts of the country proved to him that drink was on the increase amongst women (cries of "Shame"). He hoped that the Government would do sometiiing next year (loud cheers). "Nay more," he declared, "we are going to do something (more cheer- ing). It is the great Bill upon which the Government iC-- going to concentrate all its energy (cheers). "The Bill must be aimed at the excessive drinking, and before it commends itself to Eng- lish public opinion I believe that the moderate drinker, who is in the majority, must feel that he is safeguarded. That is my opinion of what Englishmen will support, and, after all, you must get a Bill that will carry the country witli you. Lay the foundation firm and deep for action, for resolution, radical constant action, something that will broaden the area of sobriety, and eventually make this land a land of ec-ber people" (cheers). The trade, he went on, imagined that the Government contemplated a great attack upon their business. The Government wished to at- tack no legitimate business. It was respon. sible for good government and good order. and anything that interfered with that it was the business oflbe Government to ruthlessly put an end to (cheers). This Government had made up it-3 mind to devote the prime of its strength to dealing firmly, thoroughly, and, he hoped, once and for ail with the greatest eviJ and the greatest wrong that existed to-day Coud cheering).

STEAMBOATS ASHORE AT LLANDDULAS. A GLASGOW BOAT COLLIDES WITH A LANDING STAGE. During the north-easterly gale blowing on Tuesday afternoon, two steamboats en- gaged in conveying stones from Llanddulas quarries ran ashore at Llanddulas. They were the "Carrick Lee," of Londonderry, and the "Cameo," of Glasgow. The wind rose somewhat suddenly and I efforts were apparently made to steer the boats for shelter, but as they failed to make headway against wind and tide it was deemed advisable to beach" them. This was successfully accomplished in the case of the Carrick Lee," which was eventually floated, little, if any, the worse for the in- cident. I he "Cameo," would no doubt have got out of her difficulties with equal ease but for the fact that, in steering round, she was washed against Messrs- Kneeshaw and Lupton's landing stage. In the impact two of the stage supports were smashed, while the crossbeams collid- ed with the boat, carrying away her funnel, portions of the bwhvarks and the casing. For some time the vessel was pinned in this position, but the crew eventuallv got her off, and she was promptly run ashore. On examination it was found that the blade of her propeller had been broken and that her steering gear was badly damaged. The helm had also been smashed clean off at the top, while one of her anchors was also damaged, and she leaked very badly. The exact extent of the damage is not known at present, but that she is in a bad condition is evident. The Cameo" will be unloaded and afterwards patched up so as to be refloated. On Wednesday morning the tug Blazer" arrived on the scene, but sailed away again about noon, her services not being required. The" Cameo" is owned by Mr William Robertson, Glasgow, who is also owner of the Onyx," a boat which was driven ashore last winter. When first built, the ^'as known as the "Strath Adder, and took her first cargo from the quarries of Messrs Raynes and Co. The s.s. Eleinor," of Glasgow, which was on her way to the landing stage, hap- pily escaped damage, thanks to a warning signal from Captain Murray, manager of Messrs Raynes' quarries.

SCHOOL SPORTS AT OLD COLWYN. TANLLWYFAN SCHOLARS IN COMPETI- TION. The annual sports wmcn usually take place in the summer term at the Tanllwytan ."School, Old Colwyn, had been postponed from the last term, and were held on. Friday in the school held. The day was unfortunately rather wet., and for that reason many of the friends invited were -prevented from being present to witness the pro- ceedings. After the sports were over the visitors and boys sat down to a sumptuous tea, kindly pro- vided for them by Miss Francis. Subsequently the prizes were distributed by the Rev. Ll. A. Richards, who, previous to doing so, &ddressed the boys on true sportsmanship, and heartily con- gratulated the successful boys on the good form exhibited that day. THE PRIZE-WINNERS. The following is a list of events and the prize- winners :— 100 yards (over 12j): 1, Dawson; 2, N. Shelley. 100 yards (between 9 and 12j): 1, Orme; 2, Howson. jOO yards (under 9 £ ): 1, H. Guest; 2, Radcliffe. Long jump (over 12): 1, Irwin; 2, Cayley. Long jump (under 1): 1, Howson; 2, Crrnp. Sack race (open): Dibbs. Throwing the cricket ball (open): Dawson, 53-yds. 1-ft. High jump (over 121): Irwin, 3-ft. 7-in. High jump (under 125) Roborti-cn, 2-ft. 11^-in. Three-Ieggsd race (cpen): J, Dawson and Robinson. Quarter mile handicap: N. Shelley; 2, H. Guest; 3, Ir- v in; 4, Davids. Obstacle race (over 12!): 1, Irwin; 2. Rrtb'nson. Obstacle race (between 9 and 12); 1, Orme; 2, Howson. Obstacle race (under 9j) r 1, H Guest; 2, Dibbs. Consolation race, 220-yds. handicap: B. Shelley. The were:—Rev. LI. A. Richirds. Messrs W. W. Hunbley :ind H. J. Wright, while Mr Matson acted as starter,

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Births, Marriages, and Deaths. BIRTHS. BICE—October 14th, a.t Haven House, Conway, to Mr and ldre Alfred Rice, a daughter. MARRIAGES. BURRELL—COULTEK.—On the 12tli inct., at the Presbyterian Church, Colyyn Bay, by the Rev. John Edwards, aj-sisted bv the Rev. Robert Roberto, Lewis M. Burrell, of the North Wales District Auda Staff, to Amy Isabel, daugliter of the late John Coulter, of Manchester and Colwyn Bay. At home. Oheiford, Prince's Drive, November 6th and 7th. EDWARDS—THOMAS.—October 9th, at Manor Road Wesleyan Church, Liscard, by the Rev. H. Maldwy* Hughes, M.A Pierce Lloyd, only son of Morris Edwards, FJrydd-y-Uog, Corwen, to Louisa, fourth daughter of Mr David Thomas, 17, Liscar4 Crescent, Liscard. GRIPYlTH,-IJO,NES. -October 7th, 1907, at the Eng. lish Baptist Church, Grosvenor Park Road, Chester, by the Rev. J. J. Hargreaves, Mr Julin Griffiths, l'wll Melyn Farm, and 22, New Street, Mold, to Miss Annie Jones, third daughter of the late Mr Robert Jones and Mrs Junes, Pentre Mills, Riiuddian. GRIFFITH—CHARLES.—October loth, at the Taber- nacle Chapel, Bangor, by the Rev. T. Charlet Williams, M.A., Menai Bridge, in the presence 01 Mr D. Griffith Davies, Registrar. Mr Evan Griffith, of 3, Akew Street, Menai Bridge, and MIB« Myfanwy Charles, of 12, Lower Street, Caellepa, Bangor. Hl'GHEvJONES—LLOYD.—On the 16th inst., at the Welsh O ligrfgational "Chapel, Old Colwyn, by tb« Rev. W. E. Jcnes tPenllyn), T. Hughes-Jones, Th« {'n:!l: runway Road, Colwyn Bay, to Miss Mattie Lloyd, only daughter of Mr Owen Lloyd, lYndi'-rlan, Colwyn Bay. LEWIS—LVANS.—October 12ih, at the Congregational Chapel, Lane, Denbigh, by the ltev. D. D. Richards, Mr Robert Lewis, Grueor Uchaf, to Misi Janet Evans, Rhos, both of Llansannun. DEATHS- GILLETT.—At No. J, Station Road, Bethesda, on October 5th, 1907, Grace, the beloved wife of Charles Edmund Gillett, aged 53 years. HUGHES.—October 14tb, Elizabeth, widow of the late Mr John Hughes, Ty Capel y Pare, Balo, ag-ni 86 years. JONES.—October 12th (her birthday), at Brighten, oi heart failure, Sarah Eugenie, second daughter of the late John Jones, of Bank Place, sujd Bodlonfa, Denbigh. NEWTON.—On October 11th, at 16, Segontium Terrace. Carnarvon, Richard Wilian Newton, aged 50 yearf (of R. Newton and Co., slate merchant^ Carnarvon. PECK.-At Edinburgh, on October 7th. Gladys Maud, youngest daughter of the late Bertram Constant* Peck, aged 21, The Haven, Old Colwyn. PHILLIPS.—October 12th, suddenly, Mr Thomat Phillips, gardener, Bryn E!wy Cottages, St. Aaaplv aged 69 years. WILLIAMS.—At 23, High Street, Conway, Hugg Williams, of 7, Arundel Street, Liverpool. IN MEMORIAM. In loving memory ol my dear husband, Robert Parry., who died at his residence, 14, Newry Street Holyhead, October 15th, 1906. Yet again I hope too meet thee, When the day. of life are fled; Then in Heaven I hope toO greet thee, Where De farewell tears are shed. --4

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CATTLE. LIVERPOOL, Monday.—The supply of cattle wac larger than last week. Demand good, and prices fo< best qualities rather better; middling and interiog sorts unchanged. Slierp supply aisu larger, and foi finished quality trade started better at a shade inort money, though the demand was not ¡;uta.llled. Lao; week's prices, however, governed most transactions Rough classes no better. Quotations: Beef, 6d U iid; mutton, 9d to 6Ad per lb. At market: 1,.111 cattle and 8,492 sheep. WREXHAM, Monday.—There was a moderate supply of stock at this market to-day, and business waA brisk. Some good dairy cows made from 1:17 to E2 each. Sheep also eold well. Beef made from 6Jd t* 7Jd per lb. mutton, 7d to Sd lamb, 8d to 9d' veal, 6Jd to 7d; and pigs from 9s to 10s per scorf lbs. BIRMINGHAM, Tuesday.—Short supply and buei. net-, dull. Prices Best Herefords C,id; shorthjrni tijd to 6td; bulls and cows 4id to 5Jd wether ehtep Sid to í-N; ewes and rams tijd to GJd lambs bid tit HJd per lb; bacon pigs 90 2d porkets i&t foj to Ire lUd sows 7e 6d to 7g 9d per score. WOOL. BRADFORD. Monday.—Holders are exceedingly firm, and for immediate delivery the highest prices must be j aid for fine wools. There is a great hesitancy about forward selling in croewbreds; business is of a very retail character, and there is no weakness. FijrUes are Is 4!d. Mcrinoes sixties tops are 2f5 5d. Englisb wools are stil, and some makes are inclined to harden* prices in the country being certainly dearer. BUTTER. EGGS, MEAT, Etc. BANGOR, Friday.Fresh butter. Is 2d pel. lb fres-h eggs, 10 or Is: Insh. Daiiikh und Canadian butters. Is and Is 3d per lb.; beef. 7d to lOd per lb. mutton. 8d to 10a'; Jamb, 8d te lOd; veal, 7d to lOd; pork. 8d to IOd; jars, 7d to lOd; bacon, 7gd to 9d; fat pigs, 3,3,1; potatoes. 18100. for Ie; carrots. Id per lb.; 1 ur- rill)is, 1(\ parsnips. Id; peas, Is per quart; cabbages. Id to 3d each; caulalawers 2d to 4d rhubarb, Id per lb-; celery, 3d per stick;, lettuce, Id each; leeks. Id; cucumbers. 2d to 6d each; vegetable marrows, 2d to 6d; grapes (English), le to 23 6d per lb. grapes (foreign), 4d to 8d'; melJons, 4d to 5a each; tomatoes, 4d to 6d per lb. plums. Id to bd apples. 2d to 4d; pears 3d to 6d; cluckene, 4s 6d to 5s f ex couple; lowls. 2s to 2s 3d each; duckijnge. ie; harefs 3s to 3s 6d; rabbits, sul to Is; pigefast- Is 6d per brace; pheasants, be 6d per brace; partridges, 5s 6d; ducks, 3s each; gee6e, dd per lb.; smoked salmon. Is 6d per lb.; -olest le 6d; turbot, le 2d; brilL Is; halibut, 9i, lemon soles, 9d; plaice, 4d to 6d; whiting, 44 to W- dabs, 4d; gurnets. 3d; bake, 4<1: skate, 3d; cod, 3d to 6d inaddocke. 5d lobsters, Is 2d per lb.; white bait, 6d per -irt; prawne. li per lb-; sh-mii-ps, 5d per pint. LLANGEFNI. Thursday.-Butter, le Id pe* lb.; eggs, 12 for Is; beef, 6d to 8d; muttoci, 7ci to 9d; lamb. lOd to lid; veal, 7d to 8d; pork, 6d to 8d; fat pigs, 32<1 per lb. little "pig> to 16s each; fowls, Ls 3d to Is oJ each.: dtanks, le 9d to 2s each oats (new), 165 per quarter. PWLLHELI, Wednesday.-Biitter 11 per lb eggs 8t per 120; ducke 3s to 4s per couple; chickens aø t 3s 6d per couple; fowls 3s per couple; potatoes 4» per llzlbs; beef 7d to 9d per lb; mutton and lamb 8d to lOd pork 7d to 9d veal 7<J to 9d per lb pigi (suckers) 14» to 19s each fat pigs <d per lb. 8d to lOd pork 7d to 9d; veal 7d to 9d per lb pigi (suckers) 148 to 19s each fat pigs <d per lb.

MERIONETHSHIRE JOINT POLICR COMMITTEE. This committee met at Bala on Tuesday, Ma O. Slaney Wynne in the chair. The Chief -Constable (Mr Thomas Jan re- ported that the number of off-licences dealt with summarily was 170, against 188 last years. There wat: a great decrease in the number of tramps re. le vtd-976, ae compared with 1364, a decrease of 388. Superintendent Morgans, cf BaJa, applied for travelling allowance, and the committee resolved to allow an annual sum of E8, plus travelling: expenses. A similar sum was granted to In- spector Roberts, of Blaenau Festiniog. A discussion took p:ace on the retaining of a soiicit-or for the county. Mr Guthrie Jones, of Dolgeliev, has usually conducted the prosecu- tions on be half of the police. The committee decided to divide the county into the following d -Bala,. Doigeiiey, and Blaenau Fes- tiniog, and to vest the power of retaining & faolicit-or in the Chief-Constable.

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myself witb two patients to look after. The second one was not unconscious, but he had a tremendous lump on hia forehead, nearly as big. as my net. Two or three times I ran out to the platform to say that if a doctor did not see him quickly death would won intervene. THE ILL-FATED DRIVER. DROVE MONDAY NIGHT'S MAIL FROM HOLYHEAD. The driver, Martin, Wa6 an o'cl and popular eervant of the company. He was well-known a-s Sam Martin, and was described by one of the North-Western officials as a reliable and-trusted man. He was spoken of by a friend ae one of the best of chaps, and the accident by which he met his death is believed to be the first he had experienced. He had been in charge of ex- presses to London, Carlisle, and Birmingham, and on the night, in qufjfepn he worked the eight o'clock train from IiT?yhead to Crewe. There he transferred to what is known as the North and West tra.in, or the Tamworth mail. His duty was to work this train to Shrewsbury and return to Crewe with the train from Bristol. GRUESOME DISCOVERIES. At intervals throughout the day bodies were extricated from the wreckage, but the task of the men was a gigantic one. Several powerful cranes wero employed, but the work was difficult and not without danger. Indeed, in the after- noon one man had a narrow eccape of eerious injury.. He was struck on the head by a corner of a masftive portion of the wrecked tender, which was being hauled up by crane. He was stunned, but the injury was not serious. During the morning the engine was raited from its side. The driver's body was discovered; but it was not until late in the afternoon that the fireman's crushed body was removed from beneath the heavy ironwork. At about five o'clock the body of the guard of the fish truck was released, and the workers soon afterwards found the body of a lady, aged twenty, pinned beneath the wreckage. It was in a terribly mutilated etate, and a Tug was piaced over the exposed portion while the opera- tion of extrication was completed. This was the nineteenth corpse recovered. A MOLD VICTIM. SON OF THE LATE MR T. T. KELLY. CONFUSION OF IDENTITY. A correspondent wires: Another man is identified as Cecil Tudor Kelly, bank clerk, 43, Kip.ing-avenue, Wells-road, Bath, aged twenty- four. Curiously, this man was first identified by Driver Martin's eon as his father. After- wards the son identified another body as that of his father. Kelly was in tie front coach ana. was covered with debris from the engine, which caused the confusion of identity. Mr Cecil E. G. Kelly, who was returning to Bath after summer holidays, fpent with his mother at Rhyl and Mold, was the fifth eon of the late Mr Thomas Thelwell Kelly, clerk 01 the peace for Flintshire, and was a brother of Mr R. Stuart Kelly, a principal in the tirw. of Keene and Kelly, solicitors, Mold. MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY FROM THE KING. The following telegram has been received by Lord Stalbridge, chairman of the London and North-Western Railway, from the Kiiig- "The King offers his deepest sympathy in the terrible accident which has just ooourred, and trusts that the injured are doing well." Lord Stalbridge, in reply, said:— "Lord Stalbridge begs that you will express to the King his sincere thanks for the very sympathetic telegram which Hie Majesty has been good enough to send. Lord St a-bridge need hardly assure His Majesty of the feeling of sorrow that is felt by himself and the board at the terrible disaster. The last accounts are that the injured are doing as well as can be expected."