A most disastrous railway accident occurred at Byron, Cal., on the evening of December 20. The “Owl” train, standing on the track on account of a break in its engine, was struck by the Fresno Flyer, running at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The rear Pullman on the Owl was telescoped, the top of the car resting upon the engine, as in our illustration from a photograph, reproduced from the Examiner. See page 9. Twenty-seven deaths have resulted. Others were severely injured. It does not seem possible that one soul could come out of that telescoped car alive, yet some did. The accident was unaccountable, in a clear night, on a straight track, with rear lights and special signal, it is said. A few days later the Owl was in another wreck near Los Angeles, in which happily no lives were lost. Two freight trains collided at Trinidad, Col., on the 24th, and ten persons were killed. On the same day there were collisions at Rogers, Neb., and at Leetsdale, Pa., in which a number were seriously injured. On December 26 a terrible head-on collision occurred at Wanstead, Ontario, between a freight and a fast passenger, in which twenty-eight persons lost their lives, and about forty were injured. The following day a collision occurred between a passenger-train and a work-train in central Kentucky, in which three were killed and two injured. How near is death to life!