The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-15 00:00:00

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS'

On Thursday morning, about a quarter to nine o'clock,
a sad fatality occurred on the Western South Coast '
Branch of the Brighton Railway. Mr: Robert Bayly, a
gentleman residing at 3, Denmark-terrace, Brighton, went
out for a walk, and was in the act of crossing the line near
the bridge between Hove and Cliftonville, when the B'l6
a.m. train from Worthing came up. Before Mr. Bayly
could do anything to avert the calamity, the engine
caught the unfortunate gentleman and knocked him down.
The guard-iron in front of the engine struck the back of
his head, and inflicted a frightful injury, which must have
caused immediate death. The lifeless body was taken to
the Hove Station, where it was soon afterwards identified,
and the necessary steps were taken for holding a coroner's
inquest.
A very serious accident occurred on Wednesday evening
at the Gloucester and Cromwell-roads cutting, Kensington,
where an extension line of the Metropolitan Railway is in
course of construction. It appears that a steam excavating
engine, together w ith the necessary implements and tackle,
were fixed at the mouth of a pit, and the process of
delving and bringing up the soil to the surface was
being carried on, when from some cause or other the
engine, &c., with its weighty accompaniments, fell over into
the pit. There were three men on the engine at the time
of its fall—the engineer, the stoker, and an attendant (who
were severely injured)--and several labourers or miners
were at work below. As the engines descended the shorings
were torn away, and the whole mass of mould and debris
fell to the bottom. Providentially, the men at work
below received the al Irm by the crashing of the timber
shoring, and the roaring and hissing of the steam and
water and the sudden blocking out of the light. They all
escaped with the exception of one man. The half-buried
men were recovered as speedily as possible, and conveyed
to St. George's Hospital, where three of them were found
by Mr. Holderness, the house surgeon, to have sustained
very serious injuries. The names of the sufferers are as
follows :—Thomas Parker, aged 43, of 14, Balford-street,
Battersea; he was the engineer; he has sustained fractured
skull, fractured ribs, together with internal injuries—case
serious. Thomas Grey, stoker, of 26, Warwick-road,
Kensington, fractured ribs and severe contusions about
head and face. Thomas Gerard, aged 20, attendant on the
engine, of James-street, Kensington, most severely in-
jured on head and body—an almost hopeless case. The
fotirth man, a miner, received various injuries and wounds,
but on being surgically attended to he was sent home at
his own request, leaving no record of his name or place of
abode. Neither of the injured men can as yet give an ac•
count of the occurrence.

A shocking accident is reported to have occurred at the
goods station of the London and North-Western Railway,
in Park-lane, Liverpool: A young man, Leigh Parry,
who was employed as an engine-fitter there, was engaged
in oiling the machinery of a crane worked by steam whilst
it was in motion. A loose slop he was wearing was caught
by the revolving shaft, and he was dragged in and whirled
round with fearful rapidity. Before the engine could be
stopped both his legs were severed at the knee by being
dashed against the platform upon which he had been
standing, and nearly every bone in his body was broken.
In order to release the shapeless corpse from the shaft it
was necessary to use a knife.