Each year, as the tourist season comes round, we seem to have some terrible railident to record. This summer, unis the past week, we is to prove no exception,
ad two. It is to be hoped they suffice, as unluckily in both cases they appear to hare been the result of gross carelessness on some one's part. In the first, which occurred at Slough last Saturday, five lives were lost and about. a hundred ud thirty unfortunate people injured. It Windsor race day, and a special train which was conveying the pleasure seekers to their destination was stopped at Slough for the purpose of collecting. the tickets. Whilst it was in the station, the Plymouth express dashed along the line, regardless of four signals which are all said to have been set at "danger," and ran into the excursion train with the aforesaid ghastly result. Two carriages were lifted up bodily by the force of the impact and placed on the top of the colliding engine; two more wore telescoped and several considerably broken. The gas holder of the engine burst, the gas ignited and at once set light to the broken carriages, the boiler emitted clouds of steam and scalded many of the otherwise uninjured victims. Altogether the scene must have been heartrending, and there must be many who will never care to hear of Windsor races again. Among the injured is Mrs. Bernard Beere, the actress. Fortunately, she escaped with little more than cuts and bruises, but the shock to her system has proved so severe that she has been compelled to cane-1 all her immediate engagements.
THE SECOND ACCIDENT, luckily of a lighter nature, occurred on Wednesday at Hampton Court which, as is knows terminus. An excursion train from Hastings, carrying between 500 and 600 members of the "Pleasint Sunda Afternoon Association, bound for an afternoon on the river, orer-ran its distance, and instead of pulling up in the station, ran on into the butlers. Most of the passengers, d_got up in their seats preparatory to sighting, and the impact was so great that they were forcibly thrown down and punters received bad cuts and bruises. The total number of the-e hurt is said to be between 30 and 40.
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