THE SCOTCH EXPRESS IN COLLISION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8763, 26 April 1890, Page 2

THE SCOTCH EXPRESS IN COLLISION.

Ar half-past three on the moi.iiug of March 4th a fearful collision occurred at the north end of Citadel station, Carlisle, betwean the Scotch express, which left London at eight o'clock the previous night, and a Caledonian Compjny's engine. On reaching Carlisle the train was half ati hour late, and owing, it is presumed, to the slippery state of the metals, the brakes failed to act, aud the train rushed through the station at the rats oE twenty miles an hour. A short distance beyond the platform it came into violent eoflision with a Calodouian Company's

engine, which was coining up to the plat--lorurto take a train on to Scotland. Such was the force of the collision that the Caledonian Company's engine was driven back a considerable distance down the incline, but the express engine maintained its position on the line. The tirst two carriages — a third-class and a composite tirst and third-class — were telescoped. From the tirst coach the bodies of two men and a woman were taken, and from the second that of another woman. The officials at Carlisle station camo at once upon the scene, having, indeed, witnessed the accident. Dr Lediard, the nearest medical man, was promptly at hand, and astisted the station master and others in the work of rescuing the occupants of the train, many of whom were injured. The most remarkable part of the disastrous occurrence waa that the destruction of rolling stock and the loss of life and injury to passengers were confined to the two coaches next to the tender, which telescoped so completely. No van separated the coaches from the tender, which was immediately followed by the first coach, consisting exclusively of thirdclass compartments, with a luggage locker in the centre. Through this vehicle the next coach for Aberdeen was projected with fearful momentum, stripping it nearly from end to end. A heavy sleeping saloon behind the Aberdeen carriage probably saved the remainder of the tram. The four deceased persons had evidently been killed instantaneously. Their names aro William Lowles, valet to Colonel llambro, M.P. ; Miss Lowson, of (38 Wells street, Oxford street, London ; Walter Ford, 1 Yew Tree Cottages, Croydon road, Beckenham; and Mary Huxter, a servant (as was Walter Ford) of Colonel Eyre, of Middleton Tiab, Kichmond, Yorks. There were fifteen injured, one of whom was Colonel Hambro, M.P. for South Dorset, who was much shaken.