A FEARFUL ACCIDENT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8064, 13 December 1892, Page 3

A FEARFUL ACCIDENT.

Wreck of a Railroad Express.

A terrible iailroad wreck happened od the morning of November 2, near the town o! Think, in Yorkshire. The second section of the East Coast express from Edinburgh to London ran into a goods train at Manor House Station. The line at this point runs along an embankment. The engine of the express train, on striking the goods train, reared up, toppled over, and fell into the field at the side of the line, followed by all the passenger coaches. Passengers were in many instances pinned under the debris, and several were burned to death before help could reach them It is certain that thirteen persons were killed. Among the dead is Captain Duncan MeLeod, of the 42nd Highlanders, who was on hit way to Australia. The Marquis of Tweedale and the Marquis of Huntly, who were in a Pullman car, escaped with a severe shaking up. The 6te burned fiercely until noon, the flames then having devoured the entire wreckage. The occupants of one carriage Buffered horrible agonies of mind, as they were solidly imprisoned watching the flames approach them. They were rescued' just in the u ; ck of time. The tcoident was one of the worst in the history of English railroading, being apparently due entirely to bad management. The switchman, who was found asleep on hi* boy after the collision, wept bitterly as lie related his story. Ha admitted his reipomibility in failing to diaplay the proner lignala, but said it was impossible for him to keep awake, as he had been nursing his sick child by day, and working nights for »ome time b»ck. The ohild died on Tuesday, Ist Novemher. The father asked the local agent for two days' leave of absence, but was refused, thongh he protested his inability to perform his duties. The help from Thirsk and York was very tardy in arriving, though word of the disaster had been at once conveyed to both places. _ A passenger named MoKenzie went raving crazy while witnessing tho flames slowly rousting his wife to death. The dieasteria likely to result in a boom for the American style of couches and especially slerpei a. The ordinary carriages some ahead of the Pullman sleeper, and some behind it, were all 3maahed to piecei, while the Pullman though wrecked and twisted, rrsisted the shock in a manner marvellous to English eyes.

In the Bupreme Court, Wellington, today, in the case of Buxton v. Beetha. n, a nonsuit was entered. At 1.20 p.m., Captain Edwin wires :— " North to west and aouth-west gale with rain and heavy sea after twelve lours from sow ; glass fall soon." We hear that Mr .Tames O'Halloran, Jate of the Clarendon Hotel, Wavorley, has purchased Mr Moelinn's interest in hii hotel at Bulls, and enters into possession on Thursday next. We have no doubt but that Mr Q'Halloran will be a worthy successor of Mr Meehan, and that the hotel, under his charge, will maintain the good name it has always held by the travelling public.

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