The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-02 00:00:00

A RAILWAY TRAIN ON FIRE.

An alarmii.g fire broke out yesterday morning in the
,even o'clock train from Glaszow, on the Edinburgh and
Glasgow line. WWI the train had arrived about a mile
from the Castlecary station, dense smoke was obs,rved
G+ rise from a cattle-box, filled with household furniture,
which, together with a lugg,rge van, was hooked on be-
t a the engine and the open carriages containing pas-
scrigors. It at once beca-ne evidwnt that embers from
the grating of the engine had caught upon the furniture,
which was only covered by a sheet of coarse tarpaulin.
One of the passengers informs us, that so dr fective was
the grating, that he observed large pieces of red cinders
blowing out upon the cattle-box. The passengers in the
open carriages became alarmed, and the engineer was
hailed from all parts of the train. The guard
raised his flag and the passengers their hats and um-
brellas ; but whether these were imperceptible to the
engineer, on account of the dense columns of smoke
hick were now rising from the burning van, or whether
he imagined that the best course to adopt was to make
ill haste to arrive at Castlecary, where plenty of water
could he got to extinguish the flames, it is certain, at
l.asr, that the train was not stopped until it arrived at
that station. The fire soon reached a second van, in
which th, passengers' luggage was stowed, and a burn-
ing fragment of the cattle-box was blown into one of the
:•pea carriages, to the great alarm and danger of the
passengers in it. One of the passengers, though not in
h.- clmage nearest the fire, leaped out, and was very
:.uch brukeri abut the face. Luckily, the distance to
C,stleeary IT+s ry short, as the train arrived at that
before the tire had fully reached the passengers.
It was found, however, that the first van was completely
,fe,tioyei/, together with th,e furniture it contained, to
;he it is said, of 1501. or 2001.—Edinhurgh
Wit ees.

TERRIFIC RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
Geouce.smn, SUNDAY MORNING. —A most terrific
accident occurred yesterday evening, about ten o'clock,
on the Bi,eninghain and Gloucester Railway, near the
l)dl.rd station, which is situated within 33 miles of Bir-
mingham and 20 of Gloucester, by which Joseph Ward,
a fireman, lost his life, several persons were injured and
•cal,!ed, two carriages burnt, and two fire-engines very
needy destroyed. From the impossibility of extracting
int'orinetion from the men employed at the station, the
caue, of. the accident is nut satisfactorily stated, but the
followieg rests upoa pretty good authority.
A luggage train, in the charge of Joseph Ward, en-
eine- drier, left Gloucester at nine o'clock for Birming-
ham, and it is said that on arriving at Defferd he ran
into a heavy truck which had most culpably been left
in his way. The shock was so great as not only
to throw the truck on the opposite rails, but to cause
the tender to pr eject above the engine, and fall
upon it. Poor Ward was pressed against the engine
rails by the tender, and twenty minutes elapsed ere
he was extricated, and not till lite was extinct. He
was conscious for a good many minutes of the effort
which was making to save him. The truck, as already
not!ic .d, which caused the first accident, was thrown on
the opposite rails, and whilst in that position a train
trim Birmingham came dishing on. The driver jumped
elf and escaped, but the carri-ges were projected above
etieh ether, two of them caught fire, some of the passen-
gers were scalded, and all more or less injured. About
three o'clock this morning three of the CJinpany's ser-
e tilts arrived ; one of them was conveyed to the in-
' tirinery, but the others went home. A gentleman who
Birmingham !his morning by the 1 A.M. mail train,
states that when the pie sengers left the station nobody
ceased to have heard of the accident. As they ad-
vented, however, the pace slackened until it became a
walk. This led to an it quiry, end the passengers were
t-ld that tin accident bed occurred. On nearing the
fate) spa, the passengers were asked to leave the ear-
ring, s aed wale across a field and regain the rails at
an ether point, Our informant, however, went back, and
saw waggon piled upon waggon, and one of them with
the b atom burnt out and still on fire ; the tender was
lying upon the luggage engine. The passengers
h ali been removed by this time. Anther account is
that • he itecitient was occasioned by the meeting of the