An alarming accident, attended by the loss of six lives,
took place at the Dingle Station of the Liverpool Electrical Over- head Railway on Monday afternoon. As the train was in the tunnel between the Herculaneum Dock Station and the Dingle terminus—quite close to the latter—one of the motors fused, and set fire to the train, the platform, and a stock of creosoted sleepers, and a second train standing in the tunnel. Unluckily' a gale from the westward was blowing at the time through the tunnel, which converted it into a chimney, and though
all the passengers but two got safely out of the station, four of the station staff lost their lives while attempting to put out the flames. The gale undoubtedly aggravated the disaster, but none the leas the catastrophe has revealed the possibility of a serious danger in connection with railways worked by electricity,—a danger, be it noted, inherent in the mode of propulsion, and not due, as in the case of the Abergele disaster, to collision with extraneous inflammable matter,
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