A. bad accident happened.on Tuesday to a train on the
South- Western Railway returning from Ascot. A very heavy train left Ascot about seven p.m.,.and ran safely to Egham. There it was delayed, some gentlemen- objeoting, to travel with card-sharpers, when another train came up, smashed the guard's van, crushed the next second-class- carriage, and nearly crushed the next, killing five persons, mortally wounding a sixth, and injuring from 'twenty to twenty-five more. One unhappy lad, an apprentice of Fran- catelli, the Prince of Wales's chef, had both legs cut off. The inquest upon the accident has not terminated, and the cause is still unknown, but there can be little doubt that the second train was travelling too fast for its position. It is stated that the telegraph clerk of the station refused for some time to report the accident to London. because he had "so many other messages to send." Could.not that gentleman be given up for an hour, or say twenty minutes, to the relatives of the passengers killed. He would have a different appreciation of his own capacity for the rest of his life.
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