TERRIBLE RAILWAY COLLISION NEAR SHEFFIELD. TWO PERSONS FRIGHTFULLY INJURED.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 428, 13 February 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)

TERRIBLE RAILWAY COLLISION NEAR SHEFFIELD. TWO PERSONS FRIGHTFULLY INJURED.

About ten on Wednesday morning a collision of the most teirible natuie took place at the Ciawden Station of the Manchester Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, a place between Sheffield snd Manchester Some t nick >, filled with pigiion and otbei heavy materials ueic being shunted at Woodhead, the next station higher on the stieet incline vJiich terminated at the Woolhead Tunnel, when a number of them broke Joose, owing to the faihue of a coupling train. They ran back with increasing momentum, and at Crawden they met a goods tiain which was proceeding fiom Liverpool and Manchester to Sheffield. As may be imagined the collision was tiuly terufic, so gieat in fact that the pondeious goods engine was smashed up and bodily lifted on Us tender end, the waggons being destioyed in a great measuie. The shock they would give may be computed fiom the solid ' immovable natuie of theii contents. Unluckily the guard, George Jackson, in the van attached to the letrograding waggon- had not had time to escape, and he therefore sustained dreadful injuries, both his legs being broken, and his skull smashed. A platelayer, who had jumped on in the vain cffoit to stop the piogress of the waggons, also had his leg bioken, and sustained other injuiies. Both lines weie completely blocked by the great mass of upheaved debris. The t\'\o suffeieis weie e\ti acted as quickly as possible, and irmo\ed to the Sheffield Gencial Infumaiy. Jackson's case is veiy seiious Bicakdoun gangs were obtained from Gorton and Sheffield, but their effoits weie not of piactical effect until thiee p.m., when the line was paitially cleared, aftei being blocked five houis. The Hams to London, &c, due at Sheffield at eleven a in., auived at that station about fom p.m., and others in piopomon. The officials give an unsatisfactory account of the occunence.