The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-23 00:00:00

ACCINBRIIi ON RAILWAY&

During the half-pier sided Jose 30, 1869, 9 per-
eons were killed and It lejured en all the entracte o
United Kingdom, open for treills, by accidents the mama 01 .
which were beyond their own control, while 61 were
and 22 injured from rent of mutton or misconduct. Them
were killed 4 enithu ,drleem. 813tointo wirs% 44., 7 ;
porters, no polioseser ~ 4 gatennd lapel men, seritoliers, 7
Platotafava, end 7ls mums. Them flgneesveirt enclusively
to servants of comp mite wroostroctoes, *ovoid total being
60 killed and 33 ineurod. The Intel number el collidons and
other amidents to trains in Misdeed, Weiss, fleatlind. and
Ireland to the half -year ended Jane 30, emseutted to IM (26
pawner and 2 to goods calm), and by them accidents
nine persons • r toted, and 159 (Maid. No pmersigree
appear to have been killed, bat 149 were injured. Twelve
of the accidents were doe to collisions, amen to trains getting
of the rolls, D.irr to fracture of sties, wheels, or machinery,
one to ennuis g too feet into • stades, and two to testes
sticking gm Against this last most Ittihad contingency
these appears to be bat little security. Together with
tie Mena. there ham ban prmentod to toe Board of
Trade reports of engineers on certain accidents which ors-
starred in the months at February Amy, and May, 1869
(Pert Itl.) • soli sion on the Gnat Northern Railway at
(Pert
en the 13th of April, wee due to the improper or
irregular removal of some waggons bye man not in the ern-
p.:lof aka aountany. A firemen was kMed on the Brighton
Soeth Conic line on the 11th of May by coming into
ocatsot with the poet of • pie at a level orosaing near the
city of Chichester. The poste were to to shifted in conse-
quence. An accident on the Narth-Western line,
on the 26th of February, when the engine went
of the Miami the outside of an 8 curve about three-fourths
of a mkt redine, snd about one-fburth_ aptie beyond the
hot M the Incline about • mile teem limuftghen, Wm due
to deterienstiou of the strength of the machinery. " This
kunentaNe aoddent," soya GpteM Ross, R. 8., " affords
another imbenes of the smell *m4enes that ma be placed
cm the reeletenee of treneile outside • carve to a bursting
pressure, when way ceanidty Interferes with the regular
action Man elegise, sad 1 would urge that no time should be
Met in remedying skim debut on all the curves of the line. In
other respects the line seems to me in good order." The
engin*, 2fo. d, wee ore of Sharp's 22-ton engines. It
was reggived in 1847, and he mileage is returned se having
kmaait,ooo miles to the date of the accident. Two
seibbele boa In she occurred on the same (North-
Woo* Ike da the 11th and 21.1 of April. Both were
dieleisw oewellbylta from the engine, and the proper
peraiika is MWow the practice of earn ing loggsp on
Ile maid assiger, Wiwi of in covered vans. The barn-
Viziel mei M iegbk rwsover, has Increased the liability
he Iping, and endangers wooden viaducts
end 41=6nd adelosialy protected. A bottioy me
Idled at • hid waft of the Midland (Nngham
litseabge Rifling se the bib of lbw Ned rho
motion of a Id* Ina base newwwwill by the
Word. The Melina ltiakter own keel bh to a way
nit eawilika far de eievoyek• o.frLiii=es wit dm
=Me si.Vwstibmiaire.A. wink= ca the 4ritedilirei
and larrkik lire sew Bestake,ke 6th of April, wee eels
• nabs swim of working.' The telsoondut of *et.
rectum is than 'evenly etigumneed by the Board of Trade :
"My Ids," writes Captain Galton, "direct ma to state
that it appears from this report that the directors, apparently
with the objets of effecting the petty enonomy of not
haring • summate wire and proper Instruments, servants,
and regulations for the telegraphic train merrier, have
adopted a mole of working the single line which appear, to
plain reap '"hilly upon no one, and to be so fraught with
danger, that it tin providentiel that acme series' eaddent has
not happened hag 'ago uppoon th line. My lords trust that
the warning whim the ftwftoe have received will induce
them to alter se owe so reckless a system of working; for,
ahould any other saddest sent antler Itairethltra trnelbility
of having ocomiceed will met upon the