TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT MANCHESTER.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 420, 16 November 1889, Page 4

TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT MANCHESTER.

LIST OF KILLED AND INJURED. About ten minutes past seven on the night of October sth an appalling accident; occuired on the main line of the London and North Western Etuihvay between Manchester and Stockport. A heavilyladen passenger train lett the Londonroad Station, at Manche-tor, at seven o'clock for Stockpovt, and had not proceeded beyond the confines of the city when it came into collision with a pilot good* train, consisting of two engines and a break van. The latter, owing to a mistake on the part of a signalman, had been ."hunted from the Longsight goods yard along the goods loop lino on to the up main road, the intention of the signals being to place the tiain on the down main lino. In mistake, however, the goods pilot train was placed as stated immediately in fumt of the passenger train to Stockpjrt. The latter had been stopped by .signal near the Hyde-road cabin, and on being allowed to piocced, dashed witlY' great violence into tho goods engines and van. The passenger train conc-isted ot twelve composite carnages, tlneo of which were wrecked That next to the engine, which contained a full complement of passengers, was shattered into splinters, and the majority of ths occupants were badly injured. The greatest consternation pievailcd and the shucks of Ute wounded and other passengers wore of a hearti ending character. Thcaccident occurring in a populous neighbourhood, abundant help was forthcoming-. The stall at the Longsighfc station immediately proceeded to the scene of the disaster and rendered necessary assistance. The injured were quickly conveyed from the carriages to the adjoining station, and sent on by another train to Manchester, whore they were removed to the lloyal Iniirmary. On bringing out the occupants of the first carriage, the sad tact was revealed that two ot them had been killed. The bodies of the deceased showed no outward sijjns of injury, and it is believed that death was attributable to the severe shock which they had sustained. Very few of the remaining passengers escaped without severe bruises and contusions, and several of them had their limbs broken. Tho second vehicle was a guard's van, which happily was not in use at the time. This was telescoped tvith the third carriage, and the framework partially destroyed. The thiid coach, which contained its full number of passengers, was bodly wrecked, but tho bulk of the travellers escaped with only a severe shaking. The remnining carriages were .slightly damaged, and the passengers, although extremely alarmed at the shock, received no material injuries, and were able to assist their less fortunate fellow traveller. A break-down gan« from Longsight wa«? quickly on the spot, and the line was sufficiently cleaied in a short time to allow ot traflic being resumed on the down main lino. The accident happened about m«dway between Ardwick and Longsight stations. The following is a list of killed and injured :

KILLED. W. H. \\ arburton, about thirty years of age, of 9, Limefield -terrace, Kus-hfoid Park. He lies at the Fairfield Policestation. Joseph Jodrell, a warehouseman, married, and with thvec children ; lived in Med way-street, Levenshulme. A man, name not known, lying at the Manchester Infiimary. His cuff bears the name of J, Kellam.

INJURED. H. J. Bamev, Levenshulme. Henry Garner, fortj'-five years of age, packer, of 27, Herbert-street, Stockport, injury to leg. Eli Robinson, 144, Park Avenue, Longsight. J. Wood, Mile End Road, Manchester. Robert Jones, Everton Road, Longbight. J. H. Winterbottom, Ducio Grove, Le\on&hulme. F. Hughe" 1 , St. Asaph Terrace, Broom Lane, Levenshulme. .). F. Moore, Richmond Terrace, Heaton Chapel. In nearly every case the injui'ies are confined to broken legs. The guard of the train --William Harpstead, of Longsight — says it was travelling at not more than ten miles an hour when near the Hyde Road Bridge, and the crash came so suddenly that ho was thrown violently against the end of the van and fell. He never saw the obstruction on the line, and was sorting parcels when the collision occurred. A gentleman who was riding in a fiistclass cariiage in the centre of the train .states that it had gone about a mile when it stopped suddenly with a violent shock. Although he was in the centre of the train, and in a first-class carriage, he ielt the concussion severely, and was quite da/.ed for a few minutes. "I co:ild not at the time decide in my own mind whether the «toppage was a collision. One glance out of the window, however, soon settled the point for me. The line was covered with wreckage, and I saw the passengers jumping from the carriages. I noticed no olKcials about. 1 jumped out of tho carriage and proceeded to give such help as I could to the women and children. With the assistance of some other passengers we got thorn out of the carriages and placed them near the signal-box. It seemed to me that the persons in the first two carriages must have been A r ery badly hint, tor those carriages were smashed all to pieces. The framework of them had mounted on to the engine, and 1 saw the engine draw from beneath the wreck, and allow it to fall on to the line. There was intense excitement among the passengers, and this was increased by the fact that there seemed no way of getting off the line The fear was that another train raight come up and add to the disaster. A call was made for ladders. Some were procured, and we placed them over the embankment, so that the people could get down to Cireystreet. After I had helped a number of women and children down I determined to go off in search of doctors, and I advised some other men to do the same. The first doctor on whom I called did not seem to be inclined to render any assistance, and I went on until I saw a policeman. I met one at the corner of Grey-street, at about twenty minutes to eight o'clock. I spoke to him, told him what had happened, and asked him to go in search of a few doctor?. He gave me an inpolent answer, and when I looked for his number he covered it with his beard, but at the same time said, 'Oh, you can take my number.' "--" Daily telegraph."

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