Later accounts from the scene of the terrible railway disaster
in the Fred- sham tunnel communicate very few additional particulars. All appears to be still in confusion. Even the number of dead is not known, still teas that of the wounded. The death of Mrs. Ridgway is contradicted ; it is her sis- ter, who was clasping her hand at the moment of the catastrophe, who has perished,—Mrs. Withnall, widow of the late Major Withnall, of the Indian service. The deaths known are those of Mr. Davidson, salesman, of Man- chester; Henry Anderson, paperhanger, of Ilulme ; Newell, a youth, of Whitley ; and two others not identified. The bodily injuries are innumerable. Captain Purley Leatham has a compound fracture of the left leg, and other fractures. It is understood that a Government Inspector is on his way to the spot.
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