The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-21 00:00:00

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE

BRUSSELS AND ANTWERP RAILWAY.

ANTWERP, MAY 18.—A dreadful accident has occurred on
the railroad from Brussels to Antwerp, at a station four miles
from the latter town, named Bad Goed. The train which
arrived at this station about five o'clock was, while in full
progress, thrown off the line, and brought in contest with a
luggage train. The concussion was fearful in the extreme ;
three persons were brought in dead last night, fifteen
grievously wounded, and about forty with contusions more
or less serious. The accident is said to have been occasioned
by the carelessness of the railway servants in attending to the
points, so that at the junction with the Ostend line the car-
riages were thrown off the line, and came into collision with
the baggage-train. Strange to say the engine, the tender
and one carriage continued upon the proper lino, but were
violently separated by the concussion from the remain-
ing carriages. Another account states that the rail was
under repair, and that one rail, which had been replaced,
was imperfectly bolted and fastened at the extremity to-
wards Brussels. As the train passed over it the fastening
was loosened, and after the passage of the first carriage the
end tilted up, caught the wheel of the next carriage, which
was thrown off the line,: and thus occasioned the accident.
The carriages were crowded with passengers, and among
them several English people. One Englishman was carried
to the hospital of St. Elizabeth, but after having his wounds
dressed was able to be removed to a private residence. I
could not learn his name at the hospital, as his st v•was
short, and no record made. Another had his facesg:filr.:d—ly;
cut and contused, so that his features could not be recognised
and a third, who had left his own carriage and was tra
was severely wounded
ta
veiling with his courier,
but not, it is to be hoped, to require am in, the legs,.
P An Eng-
lish lady is also named as having been al, but I will not
repeat the name, as it is a common one, until I can ascertain
if the report is correct. Four Ge anbakers who had been
in England, and were returning to their emPloyment, got
into a carriage which had been recently painted, but left it
for another in consequence of the strong smell of the paint.
It was a providential removal, for the newly painted car-
riage was literally crushed to atoms. A Belgian advocate
'had both
his legs so frightfully jammed, that
appears inevitable.

dome accounts say that there are-already ten persons dead,
but I hope it is exaggerated. The numbers I have reported
were given me at the hospital.

Sir James Duke still continues unable to attend
to his Parliamentary dutiei from severe indisposition,
which confines him to his room at Brighton.
HOT BLAST CASES.--We understand that the expe-
rienced ironmasters to whose arbitration was submitted the
disputes between the hot-blast patentees and the proprietors
of the extensive iron-works at Penydarvan, Aberdare, and
Trodegar, as to the amount payable -by the latter for in-
fringing,the patent, have, after a careful investigation, issued
a final award, finding the patentees entitled to nothing, and
ordering each party to pay their own expenses. We are in-
formed that the proprietors of the above works had previously
offered, far their use of the patent, one shilling per ton upon
4 the Iron made by them; but that this offer was refuel