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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 330, 27 July 1889, Page 4

Whitworth Holland, Dobbin Street; Mar- . garet Gibson, Annaghcramp; Mary Orr, Jane Orr, Ballynick, sisters; Minnie Murdoch, English Street; Henry Jenkinson, Abbey Street; Mary Jenkinson, his wife ; Margaret Anderson, Tulharn ; Sarah Conoll, Tullylougbr-n ; Annie Edgar, Scotch Street; Margaret M’Ve.gli, Edward Street; Ellen Watt, Mi ’dleton, Tnllycline ; Mary Johnston, Market Street; Isabella M'Farland, Bethenia M Farland, Barrack Hill, sisters ; John Mallaghan, Charters’ School Lane; Ann Bell, English Street; Robert John Irwin, Lunatic Asylum ; Bertie Robinson, Charles Robinson, Scotch Street, brothers ; William Bourke, Market Street; Eugenia Simpson, Scotch Street; Ernest Logue, Police Row ; Lizzie Sloan, Barrack Hill; William Scott, Drumanone j William Parks, Newry Road, Agnes Parks, his sister; Robert Warnock, Newry Road; William Latimer, Lnuatio Asylum ; Minnie Roundtree, Bellatree, sisters j Hettie Wolff, Abbev Street; James Orr; a little girl named Mason; two children named Warnock ; a man named Simpson. This is a very incomplete list of the dead, but I have given the names of all who had been indent.fled by their freinds. The following is

4 U3T Of THE ISJCSED who were taken to the itfirmary and there detained, James Connolly, J. Vallelly, David M’ Kinley, James Hawthorne, Ed Harrison, W. Greer, W. Twynam, Kobt. Boyd, Thos. Maun, Wm. Gallagher, Margaret Huston, Wm. M’Clean, Henry Hillock, Isaac Johnston, W. Hooks, Thomas Edwards, Moses Christie, Charles Cleland, Mary Henderson, Mary Walker, Mary E. Steel, Ann Bleakley, Rebecca Macartney, Martha Barklie, Maggie Robinson, Sarah Mason, Evra M’Master, Mary Hamill, Mary Vallelly (Manchester), Maggie Boyd, Matilda Bobinson, Margaret Macartney. The terrible occurrence cast a gloom over the whole city, and the streets were filled by crowds who, distributed here and there in knots, discussed the sad events of the dav. BUSINESS Was ENIIBELY SUSPENDED and shutters were put up, while blinds were drawn, in respect to the dead. In the meantime the scene of the disaster was visited by large numbers, who watched with anxious interest the removal of the wreckage from the line and the search for further bodies. The place Where the aocident occurred is about two miles from the Armagh railway statics, upon an enbankment fully 100 feet high, apd it is a miracle that the carriages were not precipitated over it, which would have had the result of making the occurrence even more terrible than it was. From Armagh to Hamiltonabawn there is an ascent of 1 in 60, and it was along this incline that the carriages, with thsir heavy burden, rushed tu destruction. The immense engine had been entirely upset, and lay embedded in tb.i side of the embankment, the massive ironworks being turned and twisted into the most fantastic shapes, whietj shows h6w terrible must have bsen the force of tb.e concussion. The timber of the carriages was shattered and crushed like so much match-wood, and pieces were sent to great distances on each Mde Pf the hats, caps, and pieces of doting being scattered here and t“ ere .among the deferfr, Subsequently the following railway servants were taken into custody, on the charge of having caused the t??. WWfiept by culpable negligence Joseph glhot| olcib j n the traffic manager’s office; Moorhead, assistant guard ; Thomae Magrath, engine driver; qnd Henry Parkinson, fireman,

BOMB THBILLISQ INCIDENTS are mentioned in connection with the trophe. A soldier of the 37th Royal Irish Fusiliers while the train was in J own the declivity threw a number of oriil- JtaQ out of the carriage in which he was se 4 fed unto the embankment, and finally 1 O mped out himself. All escaped with tr : .^ w g injuries. But this story, thrilling and r ’ iW ing as it may appear, is cast somewhat in' the a hade when contrasted with the actio’j,j r 8 Hamilton, wife of a sergeant of \ na R.l.c. She had gone, with a number r j her children, with the excursion, and wher sbe , aw t h a t the carriage in which they w r „ was moving backwards, suspeoting that something was wrong, before the carriages I begun to move very rapidly, threw out b tt own ohildren, and afterwards a number o f others who were along with them, ghe then leaped out of the window herse’,/, These are only two of several insts’uoes of the kind which took place. An old man named John Hughes, who had driven a bus with a number of persons in it to the scene of the occurrence, dropped dead when he reached the place, owing to the great shock produced by the appalling sight. It seems that the deceased had some children with the excursion, THE SCENE Is one which almost baffles description. The line is a single one, worked on the block system, and for hundreds of yards along the embankment the ground is littered with splints of wood, pieces of ironwork, cloth, and other relics of the catastrophe. Here and there one may pick up a small glove, umbrella handle, straw hat, and other articles of weariog apparel. The engine, which bad to be moved slightly to extricate the unhappy victims who were buried underneath, had no tender, and is now lying on the edge of the embankment, the wheels on the right hand side being high in the air. The fire is still burning in the firebox, and steam is issuing from the boiler. The wheels are twisted and turned into most extraordinary shapes.