11 JANUARY 1868, Page 2

A horrible railway accident, and one of an almost unique

kind, is reported from America. On 18th December a railway train running from Buffalo to Cleveland, Ohio, passed over a broken rail. Two cars were thrown off the track, the stoves upset, the woodwork took fire, the doors were locked, and sixty persons— the Times says forty, but the Tribune gives a later report—were literally roasted to death. A number of them are reported when found to have been "mere sackfuls of charred flesh," and quite beyond the possibility of identification. Let us hope the cata- strophe will cure American railway officials of their insane custom of locking the carriages.