The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-04 00:00:00

The Late Fatal Railway Accident.

We have been favoured by the officials at the Grenadiers'
Hospital, Westminster, with the following list of the
soldiers who are suffering most severely from the effects of
the accident on the Brighton Railway. There are alto-
gether 27 men at present in hospital, besides the two un-
fortunate men who died of their injuries, and some 10 or
12 who are temporarily confined to barracks with bad con-
tusions :—Obadiah Prime, fractured ribs, going on well;
William Lewis, compound fracture of wrist joint, dislocated
elbow, and bad scalp wound, going on well; John Chap-
man, compound fracture of wrist, and severe contusions;
Colour-sergeant NV. Fowler, broken collar-bone, and large
scalp wound; Waiter Reddell, fractured collar-bone, and
severe contusions; William Sadler, broken leg; William
Anderson, badly cut head. The others are suffering chiefly
from sprains in the back and bruises more or less severe.
The worst case of them all was that of Prime, whose ribs
were badly fractured. At first he was given over, but ho
rallied under the skill and attention bestowed on him, and
is now well on the road to recovery. The poor fellows felt
most deeply the sympathy felt for them by all classes, from
Royalty itself down to their own comrades. Had it been
Sydney Smith's famous bishop who had been maimed in
this sad accident, greater interest could hardly have been
exalted in the minds of the public. Her Majesty and the
Prince of Wales have made continual inquiries after the
condition of the sufferers, and a special report is made
daily to the Commander-in-Chief by the General in com-
mand of the district, Lieutenant-General Craufurd.

Yesterday afternoon Colonel Yolland, Government In-
spector of Railways, held an examination of the guard,
Walker, who was in charge of the train, He also examined
the driver of the 6 p.m. train from the Victoria station. It.
had passed over the down line a few minutes before the ac-
cident took place, and also passed the train to which the ac-
cident happened. The driver did not notice any oscillation.
and everything seemed right. At 4 o'clock Colonel Yolland
was conveyed by a special train from Victoria-station to
Streatham-common, accompanied by the following officials
—Mr. J. C. Craven,locomotive superintendent, Mr. Francis,
superintendent of Victoria station, Mr. Hield, Chief inspec-
tor ; Mr. Rigby, inspector of the permanent way ; and Mr •
Joseph Craven, locomotive superintendent at New-cross.
After a minute and careful examination of every part of the
lino, the old rails that had been torn up, the signals sleepers,
chairs,&c., the party returned about 10 minutes to 7 o'clock.
The investigation into the cause of the accident is still
being proceeded with.

Fearful Accident on the North Union
Railway.

PRESTON, Wednesday Morning.

An accident happened this morning in the deep cutting
near to the Farington Station on the North Union Rail-
way, which, though happily free from loss of human life,
has entailed extensive damage to the _train, goods, and a
considerable portion of the line in the vicinity of the acci-
dent. It seems that the general goods train, which left
Liverpool for Carlisle and the north at 10.50 last night, was
composed of 22 trucks and the guard's van. The train, a
heavy one, proceeded all right until nearing the " skew
bridge," a little way on this side of the deep cutting at
Farington. Here there is a decline in the railroad, and, on
coming near to the bottom of the gradient, the driver of the
engine perceived that the same weight of steam carried is
train along the level at a greatly increased speed. From
this circumstance he knew that a portion of his train must
have got loose in the couplings ; he therefore applied the
break, stopped the engine, and awaited the coming up of the
detached trucks. These latter, 18 in number, soon de-
scended the gradient at a fearful speed, dashed into the
forepart of the train, and upset about a dozen of the whole.
The rails were torn up for a considerable distance in the
cutting, merchandise scattered about in every conceivable
manner, and some 17 of the waggons broken to firewood by
the concussion. The ordinary night traffic was impeded
through the accident for about three hours, and every pre-
caution was taken to warn the approaching mail train which
leaves Liverpool for Preston at 1.15 a.m. By a little after
four o'clock the down line was so far cleared as to allow;tha
traffic to be reopened ; and at the present time labourers
are engaged in clearing away the rest of the obstructions
Fortunately no lives were lost. The driver of the engine,
Ireland, did not expect the detached waggons to be so soon
upon him, and therefore shut off steam ;and applied the
break, as he would have done ordinarily, previously to
pulling up on the Ribble Bank.
It is impossible at the present moment to estimate the
amount of damage, hut it must be between £5,000 and
£lO,OOO, the railway plant alone being almost worth the
former sum. A little before 12 at noon the whole of the
trucks which were upon the line had been removed, but a
vast quantity of produce was still upon the permanent volt
and a great deal of debris from the shattered trucks re-
mained upon the embankments, though nearly 100 MCP'
have been at work all the morning.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

NEWARK--WEDNESDAY.

Pastures aro suffering very much through want of rain,
indeed all vegetation would derive great benefit frum
moisture.

White wheat new, 47s to 53s
Red do. 44s to 488
Old white sss to 608
Red do sos to 54s
Barley, malting 388 to 418
Peas, ....

Barley, grinding Ns to 32s
Oats, old, .. 2Bs to 315
New do 22s to 259
Beans. 38s to 43s
Beans, new 37s to Os
Os to 445.

LYNN-TUESDAY.

A middling show of wheat at market to-day, with a firm
demand for the best samples at fully the prices of hat
week. Barley dull. Oats scarce.
White ..50s to 52s j 8ar1ey....... 3ss to 38
Red..
Beans .—s to —s 1 Oats .22s to 260
New ......368 to 38s j Peas --8 to --15

HULL—TUESDAY.
The wheat trade here during the week has been steady'
To-day there was a very small supply of English wheat,
which was taken off at rather over last week's rates. In
foreign less inquiry, at the late currency. Barley was not
quotably lower.

Wheat.... Old white per qr. 4Bs Od to 60s 03
Old red
7P
New white .. „
New red ....
Barley.... Enplish malting PP
Grinding
Saal and Oderbruck
Holstein and Danish
Grinding
Oats English, old
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Friesland and Dutch oBl3d to 05132 d
Swedish and Danish osl2ld to 05133
Beans ....English, old, per qr 4ss Od to 46s Od
New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od
New tick
Egyptian
Peas Foreign boilers ... 36s Od ti. 38s Od
Grinding
Tares ....Spring
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding
52s Od to 56s Ott

crushing • 4os Od to ni Od
Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 10 0 to £0 0 0
Foreign Bl5 oto 9 0 0
Rape cakes 6 5 oto 610 0
Bones

COAL A
Prim of Coal per Ton a

ARKET.
the close of the market.

IVylam . a. d.
16 0
Tam%ld M00r.... 13 0
I'anfield Moor Butea 13 0
Carway and Dnffryn
Malting l9 6
lllVoaivilkye,reirrimrose 12 6
15 6

Walls End.

s. d

Walls End.

Trimdon dartfepoOl...l6 0
Ships at marks

I Ha5we11......, 16 6
South Kelloe.. 15 6
Russel's Hetton 15 0
Hatton l6 6
Riddell..... 13 9
South Hetton
16 6
Caradoc l5 6
Trimdon Thornley l4 0
Hartlepool.. l6 0
At, 24 ; sold, 14.

Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur-
chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and
4s. " High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 42. Bd.), is the
strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every
town supply it in packets.