The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-09-26 00:00:00

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haling uodetheath the Main, both legs were cut °I. lu
addition to terrible injuries sustained from the census
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Mon with the girder. The train was at rem stopped,
but the poor fellow was dead. His age was shout 30.
11. is • wave of Boutkuunbton, and, sad to relate, he
had only been married about two years. Bs leaves •
widow but no family.
The inquest wee held at the Black Bear, Wool,
before hir. Henry Symonds (Deputy Coroner), when
the following evidence was adduced :
Thomas Banks, engine driver, said be was driving
the train the previous 'Bruning, doe at Wool at 9.50.
Deceased wee his stoker. At the Wool dietaries
sigma he shut oil steam, and &eased went to his
brake, and put it on just r 3 they were aPPrusichlug
Wool station. After he had pat on the brake,
deceased got on to the step of tne tender to Meet.
the mad pipe, ..it was choked, and it being a slippery
night. Witness mid " vs you there Wail.? and
readying no answer, he feared something had happened,
and stopped the train at °nom The 21:g wee very
dark, and there was no moon. On stop the train,
he and both guards ran back about ' yards, and
found deceased lying on his face with hie hands under
his head and both feet mums the rails, lie was quite
dead, and both hie test were cut off. They then
brought him to Wool station. They had been work-
ing together eight months, and dammed wee just 30
years old. He had been married about two years,
his borne being at Southampton. lie wee steady,
and was perfectly sober when the accident happened.
it woe a very dangerous thing that the
was ,ittempung. Wituese thought • bridge they
were paring over at the time struck him me be was
bending, and hit him off the amine. Otherisive witness
thought he would have WW2 clear of the engine.
Allan Gale, guard, corroborated. They found
demurred about half • mile from Wool station. One
leg wee lying on the metals and the other by the aide
of the line, he being quite dead. lie knew the
deceased well ea • steady man. if. had known him
a. busman on the line for five or six yams.
A verdict of "Accidental Death' was return**
TOO FONILLAL

Took place at the cemetery on Sunday afternoon
found every token of respect. The so.tprooession left
the madame of the dammed in Li mat Western bream
in the following order :
About 160 ollculle and employee of the London and
SouniNtestern Railway Oompeoy, headed by
Supt. Holliday and Mx. Banks, superintendent of
the Locomotive Department at Dorchester.
Among them being represeatativea
Feom Southampton—Thome v Chimes and John
Hyd engimmen ; Thomas Samuels, boiler inspector;
John Bauer, copper smith; and many others.
From Weymouth—Charles Jonas, Joseph Bright,
Thomas Baker, and Thome' Day, linesmen
From llamworthy Junction (Norge Hayter,
Zdward Lsngridge, and Charlie (Jarboe, enginemen.
From Dominator—J. C. liollidey, district superintendent; T. Banks, superinteedent of locomotive
department; 1010 T. Banks (mate of deceased), IL
Pitta, Sydney, Frith, and atltchsP. enelaemen ;
lospectors Wills and Burden; Guards Fall, Fry,
Young, Pitcher, Jackals., ;W. Wills, booking
clerk, and A. Wolff and F. O. °lark, goods clerks.
Nearly the whois of the officials from Dorchester
station, both locomotive and %radio dap: -townie,
attended.