The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-19 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

The weights of the respective vehicles, exclusive of luggage
and passengers, were as follows :—The engine, 16 tons, tender, 10
tons; luggage van, 3 tons 10 cwt. ; second. class carriages, each
7 tons ; and the first-class carriages, each 7 tons 10 cwt.
Amongst those who were in the carriages, officially connected
with the railway, were Mr. Brunel, the engineer in chief, Mr.
Jones, in Mr. Brunet's establishment, and Mr. Seymour Clarke,
the chief superintendent of the locomotive department. accompanied
by Mrs. Clarke, All these parties providentially escaped with but
trifling bruises. After the accident,
messengers were dispatched
up and down the line, to Drayton and Slough, to prevent the ap-
proach of any train. A special messenger was also sent to Mr.
Howell, the superintendent at the Slough station, for an engine
and carriages, to be sent on to the spot wt.ere the accident occurred,
to convey the passengers from the disabled train. By this time the
down train, which left Paddington at a quarter.past ten o'clock,
had arrived at the Langley station, and a'so at atmut the same mo.
ment the train which had been dispatched by Mr. Howell from
dough. The passengers, who had fortunately entirely or partially
escaped injury, proceeded on their route to Bristol, &c., in the
train sent from Slough, while several returned to London in the
train which had arrived from Paddington the other passengers
(as the trains could not pass by the spot where the accident took
place) having been shifted and forwarded to their several places of
destination. Upwards of forty persons, who were more or less in.
jured, were taken to the Royal Hotel, at the Slough station, where
they received due attention.
Several medical men of the neighbourhood were in attendance.
Amongst those who were injured were Dr.Strosig, of Rose Cottage,
Hereford (accompanied by Mrs, Strong, :two children, and nurse.
maid, who escaped with slight injuries), dislocated knee; the Rev.
Collingwood Hughes, of Avishays-house, near Chard, and the
family governess, the latter of whom received severe internal in-
juries ; Mr. Bristow, from Haversfordwest, dislocated shoulder;
and Mr. C. Robertson, late of Honiton, who was proceeding to
Plymouth as the newly-appointed manager of the National Pro-
vincial Bank of England at that port, severe contusion under
the eye.
Mrs. Davy, of Honiton, lace-maker to the Queen, was amongst
the passengers who providentially escaped unhurt. The carriage in
which she was seated was turned over partially on its side, but
leaving a sufficient space to enable her to creep out of the window,
which was but slightly raised from the ground, on to the bank
against which the side of the carriage rested.
The up and down trains will have to use the same line of rails
between Drayton and Slough, until the transverse sleepers, which
were damaged, can be replaced. The presumed cause of this un-
fortunate accident is thus explained by Mr. Seymour Clarke :
" The cause of the accident appears to have been that the lug.
gage van, which was a four.wheeled vehicle and the lightest in the
train, was, from some cause which cannot at present be ascertained,
thrown off the line; the engine and the other carriages remaining
in their proper position on the rails. It proceeded thus until it