The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-12 00:00:00

4 RAILWAY GAIRLIOR ON FIRE.

The following amount of a dangerous acci-
dent whiok tweened en the Greet Western Railway cm
Friday afternoon is supplied yea aw-wlinas :
"I wee • mama ha the up train which is due at Pad-
dington at 5.20 pd. ; waft Sough about 6 p.m., and a short
time after, kc to look out of the window, I maw
severe' peopleout of de windows of a rado some
distance from me, wLs wed asking signals and evidently
trying to attract the enmities of the widae-driver. I soon
perceived that the dray was on Ere, sa the smoke began
to curl out between the beads of the affrighted perendtm
We imitiedistely undo each signals from oar own cadge
as we could with a handierabisf feetened on to en umbrella,
hoping that as we were woad to the engine, we might
mowed in attracting the atentka of the driver; all them
signal., however, proved rain /ore beet twenty minutes,
and the train whirled along the hoprieweed and suffocated pee-
mangers at the rate of forty miles as boor, until, es it ap-
proached London, the speed diminished to about ten mid
an hour, as it wee preparing to stop at the ticket-platform;
we were about 460 yards distant from the part of the ;plat-
form where we should have stopped, when we saw a police-
man en the line; we made signal to him with bonito
energy, and were overjoyed to find the speed slacken and the
train at loot stop, after going about 200 yards. We naked
inetentip to rescue the pidagen some of whom bad feinted,
and bad bean cut by the glass which the heat had sent fig
in splinters about the carriage ; in one minute more dame
wee darting out of the windows, and in two or three more the
whole compartment wee full of dame. The carriage burnt
furiously for half ea hour, end three out of the four compact-
data were entirely destroyed. Now, bad the train
• stopped till it bad reached the platform, the
=itere, of when several were ladies, would have
their burning prism for at least one minute,
and probably one and a bait, longer, by which time the
dame meat have enveloped them ; so that I have no hesita-
tion in saying that had not the polloecom attracted by our
frantic agnZs, stopped the train when he did, some of the
unfortunate pauengers must have been burnt alive, a fate
the mere contemplation of which is so horrible that we may
be sure that no one of the imprisoned will ever
forget the fearful agony which he endured d the half-
hour which elapsed from the time of his discovering the
danger to the time when he was placed in safety, and which
was endured solely became he could not communicate with
the driver."

A oorrespondemt, who was an occupant of the burning
carriage, writes Smoke was perceived rising from the
seat on which a lady was sitting, opponle to me, whom I
immediately handed to the other end of the carriage, and
never more fully approved the broad gauge. By piling
cloaks and costa over the burning seat, the names were for
some time kept from rising, but the smoke wu suffocating.
In the meanwhile I set the same lady to scream out of the
window, thinking she would do it much better than myself,
and she performed to admiration I For miles we want on
blazingand smoking, for no guard could hear; but Moslem
at lenc_ll spread along the trUn, and It was stopped just near
IL=W-green, only (I believe) because they take tickets
there. Three carriages were completely burnt."