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the field and looked round me . I saw the cattle-train run right into the last carriage of the passenger-train—indeed , through it . In an instant all was a pile of ruin . I ran back and saw the driver of the cattle-train , who seemed horrified at the frightful calamity . I asked him , was he hurt ? He replied' No , but I'll never get over it , ' He then proceeded to assist the wounded passengers . I perceived that the steam was being generated , and that in a minute more we would all be blown away by the explosion of the engine , and I sang out for the engineer and bid him blow oil'the steam . He did so , and then we set to work . The first sight I came on was the bodies of two women quite dead . They lay on the bank as if they bad been shot out of the door . Near them was a priest , or friar , or monk . He was quite dead , lying close to the rails ,
as if he had been thrown against the embankment and had rebounded back . I next saw a man , both of whose thighs were broken across . Messrs . Kelly and Connor and I pulled him out from under the ruins of the carriages . He was living , and we laid him upon the bank . We were then attracted by thi cries of a lady , whose hand was jammed between the carriages . Her sister lay near her , either dead or insensible . Alter labouring very hard for some time we fniled to extricate them , and had to turn to others while more assistance was being procured . From a heap of ruins , where we saw shawls , hats , and handkerchiefs , we next got out a lady , greatly disfigured , but still alive . We then came to the body of Mr . Jelly ^ which could hardly be recognised , his head being torn and smashed oil "—his lejis both cut off '— his body
torn up , and his clothes torn all off him . I adjusted his clothes , and we put the body aside , and from near him we got out the bodies of the English gentleman ' s wife and sister . Poor fellow ! He threw himself madly upon the body of his wife , and kissed her frantically , and then we got the little baby , from under her and the aunt ' s clothes , alive . We then went to the first-class carriage that had been first struck by the engine , and there we saw the bodies of twt » ladies , apparently cut in two at the waist . They were so jammed in that we could not get at "them . Near them was the bodj' of another lady , whose dress only we could see , she was so bruised in the ruins . The cries of a . little boy then attracted me . He was about eight years old . He was lying under the axletree of a carriage , which had broken both his little legs , and was lying
across them . With great difficulty we got him out by raising the axle with a crowbar . 1 then returned . with more help , to the two ladies , one of whose hands was jammed , and ive got them out . I don't know whether the insensible lady was dead or not , but I think she was . We laid her o < rthel > aiik . The othi-r was not much hurt . We next discovered the body of a verv large man under the train . His head was cut off and gone . We found no trace-of it . Both his legs-were cut ofl " aL > o from the thighs down . We got out the remains and placed them on the bank . I was at this time a good deal exhausted , having worked very hard . Sir Edward Kennedy now came up . Hi ; had been a passenger in the carriage next the engine , which had been shot on by the collision past Strailan station . He had escaped unhurt , and had rendered
every assistance to tho passengers in those two carriages , which , with tht ! engine , hud been Rent on by the concussion . Tie then returnedtlowu the line to help there , and took the command from mo , to niv great rclii-l ' , for 1 was quite worn out . I cannot , tell you ) iow hard ho worked , as also did those gentlemen whoso names 1 have mentioned , and , indeed , every one , railway people , country people , and all . I broke on" piece of a carriage and helped to make a litter , of it , on which we placed a lady wlio had her two legs broken , and the . English gentleman's little child , and took them to a house convenient . Sir Kdwiird Kennedy . sent , for a doctor andj u priest at once . Seeing that some people were- picking up carpet-bugs , I suggested the necessity of the luggage being guarded , which was at once dune . Messrs . Kelly , Connor , Leia-h , and I then
walked on to StnuTau , thinking we had seen all tho damage , and not knowing about the two carriages that had been shot away . At the . station wo found u I \ 1 Y . Hoe , who had escaped in one of these carriages , , and who was very active in rendering assistance . In the . sliition-rooin eight or nine people were lving side by side . One of them seemed dead . I placed iny hand upon his forehead , and found that he was dead . He was a Mr . I ' jgiin , of llirr . I . said lie was dead , and his body was at < mco removed , and the gentleman died soon alter . A priest Was heaving the confession of another , who evidently hud very few moments left him in this world . The dead bodies were removed from tlm room . Mim . Harrington was lying in another room in the . station , verv badly hurt 1 heard . One of the Indies I suw at ihe Million bud her chest , broken in . I don ' t think nlio would live till moriihii * . Several bad their legs
broken . () a <; servant boy , who \ nw very badly hurt , had been . sent by Sir Kdward Kennedy , on his own ear , to some hospital in the neighbourhood . There wa . i n medical gentleman present who was doing nil in his power to alleviate tho . sufferings <> l' the wounded . I believe there wero . several medical gentlemen , but , I nut not sure of inure than one . The 1 Ion . K . 1-awlesn wns ( here working very html ; mid there wan ntiu . young man , a dealer , mimed John Jtooney , who wiih going down it ) the Kilkenny train when ho heard of tliouccidttiit at tin ; Million . l ( o at'once threw up his passage , quilled the down train , nnd set to work lo help I he . sinTuroivi in u mo . it exti ' aordinarv niiiiiner . Such vigour nnd kindue . sH and gentleness as hi ) exhibited could not be . surpassed . A train wa . s got ready about half-past 10 o ' clock , and by it 1 rauii ) lo town . W e arrived at . the King ' . ' < -bridgo terininus about 12 o ' clock . Neiihi-r tin * driver nor . stol . erof tho cattle-train was injured . "
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THK WORKING CLASHES . Tiiic nioHt , notable fact of tho week is tho eoimfViimtioii of tho L : inonnhiro millownci'H to roHiKt the denmiHln of the operatives . —At I 3 : lrii ]> , the iiHHOciatetl niillowuwvh havo entered into a bond for 5000 / ., to be forfi'iteil l > y eauih lirm that nlmll fail to carry out the agreement , of the majority in their resiHtuneo to the " tyranny" of tho operatives . Thin w tho tmmo jk :-n . Miy uh that imposed by the J ' reaton bond . A bond 1 ' ' 2000 / . in the obligation which a groat number of 1 'niiH j » t Burnley and tho neighbourhood havo imposed "P <>» theniHolvet ) for tho carrying out of that object in their quarter .
The men are for the most part still firm . Two hundred and twenty of the Manchester hands have returned to work , but eleven hundred are still out on strike . The Wigan Times states that 6000 operatives in that town and neighbourhood are out of work ; but we consider this estimate exaggerated . It also states the number of colliers out of work at 4000 ; a probably correct statement . AtDowlais , twelve furnaces are now . in blast , and 800 colliers have returned to work . These have turned out a supply of coal equal to the present consumption . All is now proceeding most satisfactorily , and a better feeling prevails . At Cyfarthfa no strike , as anticipated , has taken place ,
and all is in full activity . Some dissatisfaction appears to have existed between the colliers , who stated that , owing to the high price of provisions , their pay was inadequate to support them ; but matters have been amicably arranged . At Bolton , the bed-quilt weavers have turned out , asking an advance of one penny in the shilling . The Sunderland shipwrights , now paid 30 * . a week , demand 36 s . The masters refuse to give it , and threaten to reduce the wages to 27 s . A compromise is likely to 'be effected . The Wolverhampton carpenters and joiners demand Gd . a day advance , and are likely to get it . The tapemakers of Derby are resisting a reduction attempted by their employers .
Of distinct successes there are not many , this week . The Greenock police have obtained an advance of 2 s . per week . The iron foundryjmechanics of Blackburn have returned to work on increased wages . Several facts showing the general industrial advance of the nation come from different quarters . —In the course of last week , two Glasgow firms opened warehouses in Carlisle for the giving out of work to handloom weavers . In JLongtown there are five connected with Glasgow . Hand-loom weaving lias now obtained its full value in the market of labour , and has advanced within the last 12 or 15 months at least 50 per
cent . ; that is to say , what was paid at the rate of 9 ^ d . isnowMd . And this is not all—the quality of the material given out to work has been grently improved , and the operative , so far from having now to wait many days for work , it is so plentiful that for every weaver there are half a dozen masters . On the whole , therefore , taking price , quality , and full employment into account , the advance is " not 50 but 70 per cent . In Norfolk , , farm labourers are now paid twelve shillings a week ; and in Gal way , labourers have been so scarce that women have been extensively employed in the harvest-work . The emigration of the working
classes still goes on ; the numbers who left Liverpool for new homes last month was over twenty-four thousand , being one thousand more than the number who left in the September of last year . The Devonport dockyard labourers are combining to emigrate .
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DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE . Admiralty , Oct . 7 , 1833 . Commandkr Ingi . efiei . 1 ) , wlio , it will be rciuenibei-ed , was despatched in II . M . ' s steam-ship Phconix , in the spring- of the year , with supplies to Sir Kdward Belcher ' s squadron , arrived at the Admiralty to-day , having- left tho Phoenix at Thurso , N . B . Commander Inglefield brings no intelligence of Sir John Franklin ' s expedition ; ho has , however , succeeded in depositing the supplies as directed , and , we are happy to say , is accompanied by Lieut . Creswell , of the Investigator , with despatches from Commander M'Clure , thus enabling us to satisfy the public , and the friends of those embarked in the Investigator , concernin g which ship considerable anxiety had existed as to her safety . The Breadalbane transport , which accompanied the Phoenix , was totall y wrecked by u nip of tho ice—the crew saved and brought homo by tho Phoonix . It is concluded from Sir'Edward Belcher ' s despatches , that that officer would endeavour to retrace his sto ps this season to Beechy Island to winter . It in further to bo gathered from these despatches , that the Investigator had completed the pa ^ sa ^ o between tho two oceans , having passed into the Arctic Sea by Beliring ' s Straits , and rcturnin . » homo by Davis'Si mite . °
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OUR S . ANITAIiV CONDITION . In Bormondnoy thorn havo boon four fatal canon of cholera Thoro in a . black ditch in tho neighbourhood , and in a Into oloaiiHing- of It , moHt , oflonnivo effluvia woro nproad ovor tho neighbourhood . Tho deaths in Hormondnoy nro attributed to tho dofoet . ivo dmtnngo or noxioxm vnpoui-K aiining from tho ntugniinh wntorn in Homo of tho fnotorion whoro gluo nnd nizo nro principally nindo . In ono houno in Uonnondnoy , a mnn who worked in ono of tho loathor fnotoriwi win seized wit , )) oholora ami h « died noon after Llioattack . For Homo tlrno previous « vorv tmploiwnnt nmoll wm experienced in tho houao . but no ono could ( ell whence it , proceeded ; b ,, J , aflor 1 , 1 b . loath , upon a noaroh boirw nmdo , fc wan found that a drain ran under tho parlour flooring of tlmt and nlm > nmlm . ,,,, „ } wxt , MoMmiroi . arc now being adopted to carry tho dnu . mgu off in
another direction , so as to avoid poisoning- the occupants of both houses . Several other parts of the parish are beingcleansed and improved , so as to prevent , as far as possible , the spread of the cholera . ¦ " ¦ ¦ ' On Tuesday , a fatal case of cholera occurred in Park-street , Grosvenor-square . Another fatal case of cholera has occurred in Southwark , in Friar-street , Martin-street . A second fatal case of cholera occurred , on Friday in Lambeth , and a third case has occurred since . ' In Christchurch , Blackfriars , very few cases of cholera havo as yet taken place . The only decided case known was , a few days since , in Broadwall , where a female died in six ' hours after she was first attacked . During the last visitation this par t of the parish suffered to a most alarming extent
What local energy cannot do is pointed out to Lord Palmeraton in the following- letter , which , according to his promise at Perth , should be welcome , and acted on : "St . Saviour ' s Union , 79 , Blackfriars-road , Southwark , Oct . 1 . "My Lord , —At a meeting of the Sanitary Committee of this union , consisting of the whole of the guardians and the churchwardens of tho parishes which constitute the St . Saviour ' s Union , held on Friday evening , the 30 th ult ., it was resolved , — - " ' That the Secretary of State for the Home Department be written to , calling his attention to the general state of the sewers emptying into the Thames within this district , and requesting his interference with the Sewers Commissioners to abate the dangerous nuisances occasioned by them . '
" I am directed by the committee to represent to your Lordship , in the strongest manner , the necessity for immediate measures for the abatement or removal of these
. " Your Lordship will remember that in the year 1849 this district was visited by cholera almost as severely as any in the metropolis , and it was then considered that the severity of this frightful disease was attzibutable in a great measure to the imperfect state of the common sewere , which have not been improved since that period . " The Sanitary Committee sit three times a-week , at great personal inconvenience , and are adopting vigorous measures for the suppression of nuisances under their jurisdiction ; but all these efforts must prove unavailing while the dangerous nuisances to which I have called your Lord * hip ' a attention remain untouched . " - . ' " The committee , therefore , trust ycur Lordship will , as speedily as possible , direct some means for remedying those most fruitful sources of disease in the neighbourhood .
" I am , my Lord , your Lordship ' s most obedient servant , "James J . Blake , Clerk to the Guardians . The : following- case , tried bofore the Lambeth magistrate , on Wednesday , illustrates the general condition of many houses in the metropolis , and the general difficulties in the way of removing-nuisances . —Mr . George F . Cardcn , the barrister , and brother to Alderman Garden , appeared before Mr . Elliott , to answer to a summons , charging him with suffering to be kept on his premises a certain quantity of noxious matter highly injurious to health . —Dr . Bushcll , a inombcr of tho Board of Guardians of the parish of Lambeth , and alno one of tho committeo appointed for sanitary improvement , reminded his worship that on Tuesday week Mi . Carden , when summoned to this court on a charge fiimilar to the present , had to
promised abato tho nuisance by the following Thursday , and the summons stood over for him to perform his promise This , however , ho had neglected to do . —AVilliam Henry Markwick , the inspector of nuisances for tho parish of St . Mary , Lambeth , deposed that on that day ho visited tho houses Noh . 114 , 115 , and 110 , Vauxhall-walk , and found thorn in a very bad Htato . In tho corner of tho yard of ono of them ho found a foul privy , with tho soil halfway ovor tho seat , and a quantity of stagnant water over a largo portion of tho yard , as deep as from four to five inches , so that it was impossible to pans ovor it without tho planks that wero placed there . A large hole had been dug in a portion of tho yard into which tho liquid soil had beon baled . —In cross-examination by Mr . Carden , tho witnowa said ho had been at tho
promise * at twelve o'clock that day , and that ho had not observed any operation going on thqn to removo tho evil or nuisance . A pumping-rnaehinu had been at work to pump out fiomo matter from another Iiouho . —Mr . Carden : Will you inform tho magistrate and tho court how thin nuisance complained of could be romoved ? - —WitneHH : ft could bo removed by making a eowor from tho promises into tho common Howor . —Mr . Garden : Vory good ; and don't you know that , hoforo Huoh HHowor could bo nmdo , you niUHt have tho junction and authority of tho couniii . SHionoiH of kowoih , and that if you do mako Buoh a drain without the sanction of Uuwo gentlemen .
you would bo liable to heavy poimltiow ?—WifcnoHs : It , in nocoHsary to havo the nanction of the comniitiHiouorN of Hewera , I bolievo , boforo you can nmko a drain running into nny of thoHO howoi-h . —Mr . Carden : Oh ! to bo mire it , in ; nnd from thonco nriHOH tho greater part of tho evil , thin « ibnoluto sanction , which Rcarcoly ovor enn ho got at . —Dr . Hunholl horo called Dixon , ono of tho Huiniuoningofflcorn of tho court , who Hiiid ho had viewed t , ho promtHoH of which tho dnfondant . wan tho landlord , nnd had no homfcafcion . in Haying fclmt thonfonch uriHing from tho overflowing privy , and fclio accumulation of night-soil nnd Htagnant water , and other matter in tho hole
recently dug , wuh a mont ollt'iimvo iniiHiineo ; indeed , ho Hhooking wan tho tttoncli from l . lio promimiH , that . Home momborn of tho family of lh \ Thompson , and a young liuly living oIcho by , coniplnintjd to him about , it .- — . Mr . Cardoivm reply to tho charge , nHHiirod hi , i worship that tho real aggrcHHorH in tho matter woro tho coiii ) ni « nionor < i of wnvom , wIioho nmtiBfciinco and lieoneo to remedy tho ovil ho had nought for wmio wooIch , but nought in vain . The loarnud gentleman horo wont ovor a lengthened hint . ory of ln ' ii coiTospondonco with tho commiHflionorH of unworn , nnd his lntorviow wit . h Mr . Jobb thoir chnirmau , nnd nuvoral of l . hoir ofllcors , on tho subjoct of tho drninngo , but wnn nl . ill loft , without , rodronn . Mi \ Cardon himnolf wan most willing to do ovoryt . hing- in hi « power to romovo all cimiho of comj > lninfc , b \ tt , wnn loft without any romody i , u do «<> .- —Dr . liuoUoU nsvid thoi-o wan a nhort ; and a ohonp romody oponod to tint leui-ued goiitlomnn , iuxl t . hut wnn , ( , o pBy Hto . for thi > uso of tho puinplng -nuu ^ hino homontlojiod , tmd it would at onco romovo tho uuitumco . —Mr . Car-
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October 8 , 1853 . ] THE L BADE B . 967
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 8, 1853, page 967, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2007/page/7/
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