IGO COACHING. 



to mount the box, some noise in the street 

 caused the horses to move down the hill. 

 The coachman used every effort to stop them, 

 till he was knocked down. They proceeded 

 to the bottom of the hill, and in turning a 

 corner the coach upset. Of three outside 

 passengers two were thrown with great vio- 

 lence over a wall, one of them receiving 

 a severe contusion in the head, and the 

 latter having an arm broken. The third 

 was killed. An inside passenger had an arm 

 fractured. 



In March, 1830, as the Manchester and 

 Huddersfield Mail w^as returning from the 

 former to the latter place, the horses broke 

 out into a gallop in coming down the hill near 

 Thornton Lodo-e, and became uumanao^eable. 

 On arriving at Longroyd Bridge, the mail 

 came violently in contact watli the curbstone 

 and the parapet, and the coachman and three 

 outside passengers were precipitated over the 

 parapet on the rocks and gravel below, a fall 

 of eight or nine yards. The horses then broke 

 the pole and proceeded with it at a furious 

 rate to Huddersfield, in the streets of which 

 two of them fell from exhaustion, and, being 

 entangled in the harness, a stop was put to 



