first accident of its kind in england causes horror liverpool july 27 an electric express train on the lancashire and yorkshire railroad bound from liverpool to south port collide this evening with an empty stationary train at tho hall road station causing th death of twenty three persons and the injury of many the first car of the express which was crowded was smashed to places and six of its occupants escaped the road was recently given an electric equipment this la the first serious accident that has occurred on an electric railway in england and it filled with horror the numerous waiting passengers standing at the railroad station who were spectators of the disaster the collision lifted the first car ot the express completely oft the steel frame and crashed it down again on the unfortunate passengers twenty of whom were killed outright more ol 01 them would have been hilled but for the presence of mind of a liverpool architect who seeing that a collision was inevitable shouted to his fallow passengers themselves upon the floor of the car almost immediately after the crash the wreckage burst into flames the man ald bodies of tha dead and the cries of the injured vainly beseeching that they be extricated from the burning wreckage formed a terrible scene and many women on the platform fainted the victims included several women and children fortunately number of fatally injured is comparatively few the cause at the Is unknown