Railway accidents

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.— On the Liverpool and Manchester railway, the engines are employed during the night, as well as throughout the day, in conveying goods to and from Liverpool. An engine arrived at three o’clock on Tuesday morning with a train of waggons loaded with merchandise, and after conducting the train to the depot at the termination of the line, the engine was returning to the engine-house, which is about a quarter of a mile from Manchester. While doing so, one of the guards, who had accompanied the train from Liverpool, leaped carelessly upon the step of the tender (which carries a supply of water for the engine), where he stood for a few seconds, but his foot slipping he fell upon the ground across one of the rails, and five of the wheels of the engine and tender passed over his body, at the pit of the stomach. The engine was immediately stopped, but the young man had already expired, his body being nearly severed in two.

Another fatal accident took place on the Bolton and Leigh railway on Sunday, the 30th of January last. Some children were playing upon the railroad, when one of the carriages, which they were pushing forward in sport, passed over one of their number, a little boy about six years of age, and crushed him so dreadfully, that he expired the same night.