Two fatal railway accidents are reported this morning; one of
them as terrible as those that have lately shocked the public.
A short train, which left Brighton fur Lewes at five minutes past twelve yesterday, ran off the line at about two miles from Lewes, dragged two car- riages with it through the side of a bridge-wall, and fell down an embank- ment on to a turnpike road. Mrs. Chatfield, an aged lady—her daugh- ter, thirty years of age—a young gentleman, whose linen bore the mark "5. '49. Lawrence"—with the stoker of the train—were killed on the spot; and a fifth person was taken to the hospital in such a state that he must suffer amputation of both legs. It is thought that there was an obstruction on the rails.
The other accident occurred at the Burscough station, near Ormakirk, on the East Lancashire Railway, and is not described. A man was " cut to pieces," and several other men were injured : all the sufferers were servants of the Railway Company.
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