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one side, and they dashed Avith appalling force 

 into a hlank wall. He was killed on the spot. 

 All the passengers who had jumped off were more 

 or less seriously injured ; but a woman and a boy, 

 who had remained quietly in their seats on the 

 roof, Avere unhurt. 



184<2. January 17^/?.— The " Nettle," Welsh- 

 pool and Liverpool coach, overturned by a stone 

 near NewtoAvn. Mr. Jones, of Grorward, Denbigh- 

 shire, a Dissenting minister, going to live at 

 Kerry, Montgomeryshire, was thrown oft' the 

 roof. He died tAvo days later of his injuries, in 

 o-reat aajonA^ 



December 2Sth. — The Mail, coming south from 

 Caithness-shire, broke an axle at LatherouAvheel 

 Bridge, and Donald Ross, the coachman, AA^as 

 dashed from his box over the bridge into the rocky 

 burn, thirty feet beloAV, and killed. The guard 

 had a narroAV escape. Fortunately, there Avere 

 no passengers. 



1813. February ISi^A.— The Cheltenham and 

 AberystAvith Mail left the " Green Dragon," at 

 Hereford, on its Avay, and proceeded as usual to St. 

 OAven's turnpike-gate. The gate was open, as a 

 matter of course, for the Mail, but the boisterous 

 AAind bloAving at the time sent it SAvinging back 

 across the road as the Mail passed. It hit the near 

 AA'heeler a violent bloAV and broke the trace and the 

 reins. Then rebounding, it struck the body of 

 the coach with such force that Eyles, the coach- 

 man, Avas throAvn oft' the box and killed. The 

 horses, thoroughly terrified, then ran aAvay, and, 



