A serious accident occurred last night on the London and
South-western Rail- way. The tip train, which left Southampton at six o'clock, came to a standstill at Frimley, in consequence of some disarrangement in the machinery of the en- gine. While the engine-driver repaired the defect, a guard was sent hack with a red light to stay the progress of the usual night luggage-train from Southampton; in twenty minutes a train was heard approaching, and another person was sent back with a red lamp; but the approaching luggage-train continued its career, running into the helpless passenger-train with a tremendous crash. Martland, the engine-driver of the passenger-train, was killed; and a number of the passen- gers, as well as the breaksman and stoker of the luggage-train, were seriously hurt. No explanation has been given of the cause of failure in the first signal which the guard was sent back to make.
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