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, fra.ctured 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 W. Fowler, broken collar-bone, and large
scalp wound ; 'Walter Redden, 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 he
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 itk elf 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
exeited 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
line, 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 aide 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 his
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:the
traffic to be reopened ; and at the present time labourers
are engaged in clearing away the rest of the obstruotions
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, but 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 way,
and a great deal of debris from the shattered trucks re-
mained upon the embankments, though nearly 100 men
have been at work all the morning.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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NEWARK--WEDNESDAY.

Pastures are suffering very much through want of rain,
indeed all vegetation would derive great bole& from
moisture.

White wheat new, 475 to 53s
Red do. 44s to 48s
Old white 55s to 60s
Red do, 50s to 54s
Barley, malting 38s to 41s
Peas

Barley, grinding 29s to 32s
Oats, old, .. 2Bs to
~,31°
New do 22s to 71;
Beans. 38s to 4r
Beans, new 37s to 40$
,Os to 445.

LYNN-.

A middling show of wheat
demand for the best sample
week. Barley dull. Oats 8(
White ..50s to 52s
Red .. 458 to 47s
Beaus _s to —s
New 36s to 38s