RAILWAY ACCIDENTS / MANCHESTER MANCHESTER. A collision has occurred on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, between Victoria and Salford Stations, Manchester. The 10.45 train from Salford to Bury was about due to leave the former station, and pending its being sent away, a goods train was kept outside the station. The goods train was covered by the distance signal from the box at Salford being placed at danger, and the accident resulted in consequence of the non-observance of this signal. When the quarter to eleven train left Victoria Station for Bolton, the engine driver found that the injector of his engine was out of order. He began to remedy the disarrangement, and,while he was so engaged, he overlooked the Salford distance-signal, and, before he could pull up, the train ran into the end of the goods train. The engine and two carriages of the passenger train were much damaged, and the fourth waggon from the end of the goods train was thrown partially off the rails. The passengers sustained severe shock. Three gentlemen and four ladies, who were in various parts of the train, were severely cut about the head and face,and the guard, BOLTON, who was in the van at the rear, was also much hurt. MR. COOPER, the station master at Salford, with a large staff of officials, was immediately on the spot; and, as the line was blocked by the goods waggon leaving the rails, the train conveying the passengers was sent back to Victoria Station. The wounds of the injured persons were there dressed, and most of them were able to proceed to their destinations by succeeding trains. The line was cleared in about half an hour, and the traffic was then resumed. the passenger train having just left Victoria was running about ten or fifteen miles an hour when the collision occurred, or the result might have been much more serious. The railway is carried through the city to Salford on a high viaduct, and a very little impetus would precipitate a train leaving the rails into the street below. _______________ Another accident, though happily not of a fatal nature, has occurred at Carlisle Citadel Station. Before the arrival of the limited mail from London for the north, a post-office van containing three officials, was detached and moved on to another line of rails, upon the traversing car. The limited mail then left the station and proceeded on its journey north. As soon as it had gone, six porters began to push the post-office van on to the main line again. While they were so engaged, and when the van was half way across the six-foot, an engine shunting an empty carriage ran into the van and dashed it against one of the iron pillars which supported the roof of the station. The pillar was broken and knocked down, and about twenty yards of the wood, slate, and iron roof came down with a great crash. The porters, warned of the impending fall by the cracking of the glass and timber, were enabled to get out of the way before the roof fell. Part of the ironwork smashed through the roof of the post-office van, but the three clerks in it escaped without injury. __________________ An accident has occurred at the Sheffield Station of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, the victim being SAMUEL WALKER, aged eighteen. WALKER was employed as lampman, and was engaged on the roof of one of the carriages forming the latest arrived London express in removing the lamps. It was necessary to move the train back a few yards, which was done slowly, but WALKER lost his balance, and fell between two carriages. His neck fell across one of the rails, and the engine and several carriages passed over him, severing his head from his body. ____________________ CAPTAIN TYLER has reported to the Board of Trade the result of his inquiry into the circumstances attending the accident that occurred on the 22nd of August at the Elstree Station on the Midland Railway. In this case an excursion train of school children, due to leave Elstree for Haverstock-hill at 9 p.m. was starting from a siding instead of going out on to the main line. Four adult passengers and 16 children have complained of injury. None of the company’s servants were injured. CAPTAIN TYLER says: “This collision occurred in consequence of the forgetfulness of the station porter, who ought to have opened the points near the south end of the siding to allow the train to run on to the main line, but who forgot the necessity for doing so, and left them open for the dead end of the siding; and this man appears fully to have admitted his forgetfulness. With a view to the prevention of a similar accident in future, it is desirable that the points near the end of the siding should be interlocked with the siding signals so that the siding signal cannot then be altered, after the lowering of the siding signal, until that signal has been returned to danger. It is another instance of the necessity of providing, by properly-arranged locking apparatus, against the risk of those mistakes which, in the hurry of their work, the best of men are otherwise liable to commit”. ================================================================== barb, ontario, canada.