9 AUGUST 1856, Page 6

Ireland, not usually prolific in railway "accidents," has contributed its

quota to the crop of the week. Near Newry, on the Belfast Junction Railway—a single line—a luggage-train ran into a truck propelled by a ballast-engine ; in the truck were four labourers ; one was killed, and the others badly hurt. The disaster appears to have been caused by the people in charge of the ballast-engine : they were picking up workmen on the line at a time when the rails should have been clear of all obstruction—when the engine and truck should have been in a siding.