The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-18 00:00:00

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SUPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

GIi.A.i'ESEND, Friday Morning.
Wind S., tide 2d hour's Hood.
Arrived, Sept. 17—Helena, steamer, from Dieppo ; Nep-
tunus, from Frederickstad ; Artistic, from hlinititlan.
Arrived, Sept. 18—Florence, steamer, from Rotterdam ;
Sado, steamer, from St. nes ; Vigilant and Leopard,
steamers, from Calais ; Triton, steamer, from Boulogne.
Sailed, Sept. 18.—May Queen, steamer, for Mogadore ;
Channel Queen, for Hongkong; Blanche and Neva, steam
ore, for Dunk irk.
Wind S. by W., moderate.

DEAL, Friday Morning.

The paraffin accident on the Queenstown Direct
Railway is described at length in the latest editions
of the Cork papers :---The Reporter says :—" The
injured men, whose names are Buckley, Hayes, and
Sullivan, were employed as lodgemen on the line.
They aro unmarried, and were from the neighbour-
hood of Carriglowhill, Glanmire, and Cork. They
were at work on timber piles, and for the purpose, it
being then a dark night, were provided with large
tin lamps, which they were in the act of replenish-
ing from a large cask of naphtha, containing about
36 gallons, which was partly open, when a spark
from a torch carried by one of them flew into the
barrel and caused the explosion. The naphtha
blazed up in an instant, and enveloped the unfor-
tunate men in a sheet of flame before they had
time to retreat. They attempted to run away,
but were so burned and stunned that they
fell down before they had proceeded many steps.
Mr. O'Regan, the station-master, came out, and
seeing Hayes with his clothes still burning near the
lines opposite the platform, brought out a pitcher
of water and threw it over him for the purpose of
extinguishing the flames. The two other men were
lying near the finger-post. The station-master,
with the assistance of one of the porters, succeeded
in bringing them into the waiting-room, and with
all haste telegraphed to Mr. M'Ardle, the station-
master at Queenstown, who sent down Dr. Brick-
nell. Upon examination they were found to have
been most severely burnt all over the front of the
body, the skin being almost completely burned
off the hands and the hair singed, The
priests were sent for, and remained with them
until morning. Ali. Collard, district superin-
tendent, and Mr. Fennessy, traffic superinten-
dent, arrived by the twelve o'clock train from
Cork. Dr. Tanner and Dr. Townsend were also called
in, and the medical gentlemen and those left in charge
have been most attentive to the unfortunate suf-
ferers, whose condition was so critical that it was
not deemed advisable to permit them to be con-
veyed to the hospital indeed, very little hope is
entertained of their recovery. They are at present
lying in the waiting-room and one of the station
master's apartments. The barrel stood three or four
yards from the platform, and so large must have
beer. the flame from the ignited oil that about 15
large baulks of timber which lay near it were all
scorched from one end to the other. It appears to
us to have been an incautious thing to have placed
a large barrel containing a quantity of explosive
stuff, partly open, and thereby more likely to catch
fire, in such close proximity to a station-house, I
which was at the time inhabited, and near which
men were at work. We do not mean to attach
blame to any particular parties. The deplorable
occurrence was certainly mainly attributable to the
incautiousness of the man who held the torch, who
must have gone too near the barrel, or, perhaps,
stood with his back to the wind, so that the torch
was blown towtrda the aperture." • A