On this day in Yorkshire: Most dreadful accident

From some unknown cause, the horses had taken fright and galloped off with such fury that all the efforts of the coachman to stop them were unavailing, the reins having broken.

There were seven outside passengers, all of whom, except two boys, received some injury. The coachman was so dreadfully hurt that he died four hours after the accident.

Mr Wm Nicholson, of Wistow, near Selby, who was on his way from London to this place, intending to take two of his sisters home from school here, was dreadfully mangled and died on Wednesday evening. He had taken an inside place in the coach and had gone outside being unwell, only about two miles from the fatal spot.