THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Evening Star, Issue 5608, 28 February 1881, Page 4

THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

TO THE EDITOR.

Si ßi —The statement made by Mr C. C. Armstrong regarding the Kensington railway accident, published in your issue of the 24*h iast., is very unjust boat least a few of those who witnessed the accident. While we c»n allow for the feelings of a man who had come out of a serious accident bat slightly hurt, and who says he saw the greater part of the crowd around him doing nothleg, yet, Mr Editor, I think he might have thought twice before ho called them all "idiots."

I was within eighty yards of the place where the accident occurred, and immediately ran to the opot. Mya&lf and some more who arrived at the eame time began to remove the debris ef the beneath which we found two of the sufferers. Shortly afterwards we found Mr Mayo at the end of the platform, and conveyed him to where we had laid the others. A boy had, meantime, been Bent for the ohemist, and I wai in. formed that a doctor had also been sent for. The chemist soon arrived, and all that could be was done to relieve the pain of the poor sufferers. I don't know what Mr Johnson, the storekeeper, thought when he read th* statement referred to. He certainly deserved bettor treatment than to be called "an idiot." He rot only exerted himself to the utmost, but must also have suffered some loss from supplying candles and bags of stuff to serve as pillows. These latter were all saturated with blood and water, which rend&red thorn He alio left his business, and conveyed two of the sufferers to the Hospi *1 in his cart. So much fcr one cf Mr Armstrong's " idiofra." But, Mr Editor, I do not wish yen to infer that Mr Jjhmon waa the o-ly one deserving of praise. Those of the crowd around whose services were needed did all they possibly could to relievo the These are a few of the facts &s I saw them. —I am, etc., TItUTIIFCL.

[We think it has now been sufficiently demonstrated that a portion at least of the bystanders on Wtdnesday night did what lay in thfir power to alleviate tho Bufferings of the injured.—Ed. E.S.]