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Accidents And Sudden Deaths. A Ditkadi'u...
ont this precaution , tho latter train ought not to have paLed th ^ vious station until telegraphed that the Set train had cleared Lewishan ,. All , however was tot purpose . The half-past nine tra ^ hundered on Srithout a pause , and crashed into the carriages of the one which was standing at the Lesvisham station . I he eneine of the advancing train struck the break-van of the other with a force so great that it lifted the machine off the rails to a level with the body of the next carriage —an open third-class , filled with passengers—along which it swept , crushing to death almost all the occupants , and seriously injuring those who escaped with their lives . Mr . Eborall , the manager of the railway , who resides at Lee Park , was soon on the spot , directing the labourers who were at ones pat in requisition ; nnd several medical men , living for miles round , were brought to the spot . Many of the injured were sent to St . Thomas ' s Hospital . The wounded number six-andtwenty , some of whom are in a very dangerous state ; the dead amount to eleven . The amount of agony endured by the victims of this catastrophe must have been frightful . One man , who is said to have been nearly cut in two , sustained existence for three hours . Among the wounded are some very bad cases of broken limbs and ribs , combined with contusions and lacerations . It is believed that all the deaths , and all the cases of serious injury , occurred in the last carriage of the quarter-past nine train . Mr . Knight , the superintendent of the railway , and Mr . Eborall , held an inquiry into the eauses of the accident the same night ; and the result was that they felt it their duty to give the driver and the stoker of the half-past nine train into custody for negleet of duty in passing the danger signal . They were examined before the Greenwich magistrate on Monday and were remanded . Other inquiries are being made by the directors of the railway , by Captain Wyane , Inspector of Railways , and by the coroner . Another alarming , railway accident has occurred . Shortly after seven o ' clock " last Saturday night , at Kirkby , ten miles from Liverpool , a luggage train ran into an excursion trainof thirty carriages , containing fourteen hundred persons , and more than one hundred were injured . Several of the carriages were smashed . The train proceeded to Wigan , were medical assistance was speedily afforded . The injuries , fortunately , consisted chiefly of bruises , and co-ntusions on- the faces , heads , "bodies , and legs of the passengers . The driver of the luggage . train is in cas ' . ody at Wigan . The driver of the Toton and Rugby coal train was standing erect on his tender a few days ago , when , in passing Wigston-bridge , about four miles from Leicester , his head struck against the obstruction , and he was thrown on the rails . The whole of tho waggons went over him , and cut off his legs ; and he was then taken to the infirmary , where he died , lie was a single man , about eight-and-twenty j-ears old . lvir j ^ ujjjjii vi 6 ^ "
A . . onn jsurcon , nvxng m ; o-xu »» , mwell , has died from the effects of fright at the great thunderstorm on the 19 th ult . He was always much alarmed at thunderstorms , and , on the occasion mentioned , he took to his bed , became seriously ill , and died Ia 3 t Sunday ; & . post-mortem examination was made , when it ; was found that all the vital organs were quite healthy . * A young lady has been burnt to death at Colchester . She was the daughter of Mr . James Sperling , solicitor , and was about twenty years of age . The accident was caused in a way which has resulted in many similar catastrophes . Misa Sperling was sealing a letter by a lighted taper , whon the top flounce of her muslin dresa caught the flame . She called out to her maid , " Oh , Susan , I am on fire ! smother mo up V At the same moment , she rushed out of tho backdopr into the yard , and pumped some water on her dress , but without subduing tho fire . She then rushed back into the house , tore up the dining-room carpe t , and wrapped it round her , but it was consumed withou t extinguishing the flames . Two neighbours then ruahed in , and , a hearthrug being brought , it was wrapped round the young lady , tho flro and smoko at that time being intense and Buffocating . Tho hands of one of tho uurnt iuu ia
gentlemen wore severely m yuiiu « » a *» o «««»• Mlsa Sperling ' s clothes wore then found to bo entirely consumed , and her body frightfully burnt and bluckonod from head to foot . Sho lingered in great agony for a few hours , and then died . A woman hnB been killed , and another severely injured , on tho Horoford , Ross , and Gloucester Railway . Tho two were standing on tho lino on Sunday evening , when . an engine approached . Ono is said to have been _ 1 _ . . fit _ . _ 1 1 1 _ M . A ^ . _ ¦ >~ . . « . . ¦ . 1 _ _^ . a . - ^\ - — ~~ ^ m ^ h ¦ aak f ^ t a ¦>> ^ X aim wui ouui vuuuuvvui
^ ^ * uwu uumu ; nor [ juinuu vu m drag her off . The engine , howev-or , approached too rapidly ; and the result waa that one of the women was killed , And the other shockingly injured . Mr . George Ranking , a student of Cambridge , lias accidentally shot his ovru brother , also a student nt the same University . They had boon practising at a target , when tho revolver of Mr . George Ranking exploded . A footman who waa attending said to Mr . Ernest Ranking , " You are allot ; " to which ho replied , " Am I ? " Ilia brother then went up to him , and said , 44 Dear Ernest , are you shot ? " A severe wound in tho abdomen was afterwards discovered , and tho wounded man died in about fourteen hours . Tho coroner ' s jury has returned a verdict of Accidental Death .
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INSURRECTION IN . A very alarming * revolt has broken out in India , For some time past , as our readers are aware , some of the native regiments have committed various acts of mutiny ; and a great deal of , smouldering discontent has been exhibited . This has now burst out into open flame , and the last advices from our Eastern Empire show a state of tilings very lamentable in its immediate consequences , and somewhat ominous for the future . . Tho details of these transactions we derive from the letters of the Times Bombay and Calcutta correspondents , and from other sources : — " Toward * the evening of the 10 th of May , while many of the Europeans were at church—for it was Sundav—the men of the two native infantry regiments , the 11 th and 20 th , as if by previous concert , assembled tocether in armed and tumultuous bodies upon the parade cround . Several officers hurried from their quarters to endeavour to pacify them . Colonel Finnis , ot the 11 th , was one of the first to arrive , and was the first victim of the outbreak . He was shot down while addressing a nartv of the 20 th , which is said to have been the foremost regiment in the mutiny . Other officers fell with the Colonel , or in the terrible moments that ensued ; for the troopers of tli-tf 3 rd Cavalry poured out of their quarters to join the insurgent infantry , and the whole bodv now thoroughly committed to the wildest excesses , rushed through the native lines of the cantonment , slaying , burning , and destroying . Every house , was fired , and every English man , woman , or child , that fell in the wav of the mutineers , was pitilessly massacred- Happily however , many of the officers and their families—¦ The great majority , I hope and believe—had already escaped to the European lines , where they took refuge iu the Artillerv School of Instruction . Mr . Greathed , the Commissioner , anil hU wife , were saved , it is said , by the fidelity of their servants , who assured the assassins that their master and mistwsss had left their house , though , they were at the time concealed ua it . The mutineers set lire to the bungalow , and passed on . " While the main body of the mutineers were thu 3 destroying the houses in the native lines , some of their number proceeded to the gaol , broke it open , and released the prisoners of the 3 rd Cavalry . Meanwhile the European portion of the brigade was called out and marched down to the native lines . It consisted of the : Carabiniers , the 1 st battalion of the 60 th Rifles , and Artillery , horse and foot . But they were too late to save life or property , and , night falling fast , they were 1 unable , we are told , to inflict any serious loss on the in-; surgents , who abandoned the station and betook themselves to the open country . Some of them—how many ™ tmnvv nnt . hut urobablv a larse body—made the best
, of their way down to Delhi , distant some forty miles . The garrison of this citry was entirely native . It consisted of three regiments of infantry—the 3 & th , 54 th , and 74 th—and a company of one of the native battalions of artillery . On the arrival of the mutineers from Meerut , they called on tfee regiments to join them in rcsistin" - the design of tho Government to convert them to Christianity . Tlio whole of the infantry force ran to arms and forced , as we are told , the reluctant artillery to join them . The lnttrar stipulated for the safety of their officers , all of whom , accordingly , have reached Meerut . The infantry showed no uuch good feeling , but attacked their officers , though with different degrees ol inveteracy , tho 88 th being the worst . Then the insurgents ran riot through the city , which was entirely at their mercy , and the bloody scenes of Meerut were reproduced in the streets of this ancient Mogul capital How many English lives have here been lost will in all probability not be fully known till tho day of retribution has arrived and tho place is again in our possession , Many are already known to have oscapod ; but Mr . Frasor , the Commissioner , has fnllon , as well as Captain Douglas , Commandant of the Palace Guard , and Mr , Jennings , chaplain of tho station , with his daughter an < J many others of all degrees , including Sir Tkoophilus Motculfo . Li . rpt . n n » . ^ vtn 1 n iwl mnrrnvinA wni'A ftfLVflfl IVoin fil l 111 ! »¦ —i - -- ¦
A . IIU WlOWUUJI «*!** . * ***•* £ , )******* w -v * w — - . — . w into tho hands of tho rebels by tho gallantry of Liontenant Willoughby of the Artillery , who blew thoua botli up , and , it is uunposed , fell a victim to his own a « t oJ devotion . * Tho mutineers presented themselves at the palace , and woro received by the King , acting , no doubt , under sovoro oompulaion . A letter from him to the Lieutenant-Govoraor of Agra was tho first intimation tho Govornment received of what had happened ; for th < mutiny at Moerut was the signal for all the rogues , ii tho vicinity of that station , including tho prisoners in tho gaol , who woro liberated by tho mutineers , to tuk < possession of tho roud and plunder all passengers , so thai all communication between Meomt and Allygurh wai entirely out off for throo or four days . It does noi appear that tho mutineers ever loft Delhi , but tho communioationa between Dolhi and Agra , wore stopped it tho same way . 11 Having got rid of all tho English in Delhi , tho insurgents yroooedetl to proclaim soiao oflfchoot of tho ole Royal House Sovereign of India . * It iuflinco reported that ho Is aavod .
occurred the murder of Captain Fraeer . r WO . s Commandant of the Bengal ( Native ) Sappers and Miueis . He was marching down from the headquarters of hb corps at Roorkee to Meerut , with a body , of h . n men . On reaching , their destination the' Sappers feU out among themselves , probably in discussing the propriety of following the- mutinous example that had been set them , and , when their commanding officer attempted to compose their quarrel , one of their number shot lnoi uToug h the head . They then broke and fled but were pursued by parties of the CarabUiiers and 60 th , and for the most part killed or captured . Since this occurrence Meorat has been tranquil , tfears benig entertained , that the Convent at Sudhttna with its-children sschool aught bo attacked and devastated , a party was sent out from Meerut , which brought in all the nuns and children to a safe asylum at the station . " It remains to mention how the intelligence of tho mutbiv was received at other stations i » the North , west and what steps have been taken towards the pu-Snent of the offenders . At Agra as from its proximity to Delhi rnitfht be expected , public excitementat first / ran hitrh But , great as was the emergency , Mr . S-rthe ^ leuLanf-Governor proved ""^ . ^ to meet it . On the morning of Thursday , the 14 th of May , when the popular ferment was at . to height anil the wildest rumours were abroad , Mr . Colvin harangued the whole brigade of the station , the Lure-pea * i soldiers as well as the native , on the parade-ground . By allno less by the two native regiments , the 44 th and G , th , than by the European artillery-liU address was received with loud applause . Even after he bad left the grouad , the cheering of the Sepoys conturned long and loud . The effect of this happy speech was shortly feW throughout the whole of the city , which settled dowu into Estate of quiescence that has not again been disturbed . At Etawali , a station further down , the Jumna , half a dozen of the mutinous 3 rd Cavalry were-cut to . pieces by the police and a small party of the 9 th Native Infantry . At AUyghur , the 9 th Native . Infantry arrested a mutinous agent whom they found in their baes , and handed him over to the commanding officer . At Benares , and throughout Bengal , all was and has remained quiet . At Lucknow , the mutiny of the , tk Oude-Infantry preceded by some days the emeuU a £ Meerut , but it was checked by the firmness of Sir H « nry Lawrenee and the loyalty of the rest of the brigade , and the regiment dispersed at the flash of a lighted port-hje , and has ceased to exist . Since then , the city and district have been tranquil . _ . „ .. .
. " Thirteen English fugitives who escaped the Ueim massacre arc now ( May 19 th ) protected by Zemindars at a village near 13 agput : on the left bank ot the Jumna . The mutineers at Delhi have plundered six villages ui the Yicinity for subsistence , and sent out advanced posts to Shahdera and Dudrco . The Maharajah Smdia ot Gwalior has assured the Lieutenant-Governor of tho North-Western Provinces of his cordial support , and has made good his word by placing hi * own Body Cxuard at tlio disposal of the Government and cheerfully assenting to the movement of as large a force of the contiacent as can be spared . Similar assurances have been received from the Hajah of Bhurtpore and other chiefs and the Lieutenant-Governor speaks with great conn' denceof the temper of the people , and the absouoe ot all sympathy with the criminal insurgents at Dexliu ; Martial law has been declared in the Meerut and Delhi : districts . A commissioner has been uppoiuted ta endeavour to open a communication with the rebels , and ; induce them to surrender before the troops ( which , are pouring down from all quarters ) can reach them . " At Ferozopore , likewise , disturbances havo arisen , 1 and there are rumours alao of the existence of disafteci tion among the regiments cantoned at Meenn Meer , tho . military station at Lahore . In both cases , the offenders . are neither Bengal Regulars nor Punjab Irregulars . "
' Two . Proclamations have been issued by theL-iea-• tenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces ; 1 one decreeing summary vengeance against the rebels j 1 tho other suspending tho functions of tho ordinary criminal courts of judicature -within the districts ot "> Meerut , Moojsnflfernuggor , Boolumlshuhur , ana the Delhi territory east < f the river Jumna , and estn-1 bUshing martial law . An Agi'a Gazette Kxtraonlinary f proclaims that any owner of land who shall join tho ! rebellion will have his property confiscated and < transferred in perpetuity to those who remain ftuth-> ful . Tho Governor-General lias also issued n pro-1 ckwuvtion , in which he denounces « s malicious fcvlse-5 hoods the assertion that the British Government him 1 endoavourod to tamper with tho religion of the native 1 soldiers . The Government , ho adds , has always bw
withheld , and always will witunoia nrom any » t course . kX 5 Some rumours of further disturbances are tnus 1 reported by the Central Star of May 2 Oih : — "A roport hue reached us , but for the truth of which 1 we cannot vouch , that ft disturbance hos taken place at Fyssabad , and that two oontpanlos of hor Mnjosty h fl 2 ml , : Hoglmont have been ordered off to quell it . Wo also 1 hoar that the King ' s brother nnd uncle havo boon arrested on the charge of tampering with tho native " troops in cantonments . Of thia wo bellevo thwo » a
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Leader (1850-1860), July 4, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04071857/page/6/
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