The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-15 00:00:00

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that Had there it.
It appeared quit* cafe to par over. Had it been other.
(azursa's mimosa's.) wise I should not has reported It, but at mice set to work t
repairing it. About nine o'clock that months' I saw the
ITALY. permanent way had been very much torn up, and I found
NAPLES, MAY 13. that the rails baked out on the down line. I est the men
Ambassador and the English and to work to repair them. I could not account for their ape
de have gone on board the Imperial flame& I ally go over the hue to samba It yaw • day
1 de not know thee a previous train to the ma train had
lair ease t• to Prince NaPoleou- passed by that meeting after my inspeetiou. No one goes
LEGHORN, Mar 14. over the Ike with me.
I Said Pacha boa left for Toulon. By the Causer-A rail might be out of order without I
r ney sotiekag it ; bee I think if such had bees the esse I
h. demobilises seem
FRANCE. Iles Oarener--Belenelog to Simpson's evidence, be says 1
PAIII4 NAT IA that "Ye gisiag at the speed of 30 miles an hour he saw the
DMZ hag been appointed to report right rail of the down line was out of order. Was that
and extraordinary budgets, and so or not? 1 , ,1
report on the huh for lemma actswittier-I walked up one line sod down the other, bat
there were no keys out where the accident hammed, but
there were some eleswhars, which were put is hy me that
pen publish a degpotcb froth Caen,
w from Athens to the 10th instant, anßeloroser-What help have you! .
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doh the mimistry had resigned, and Witness-1 have seven men beside myself.
Witamot. -I did . Th ere were woe out at the time of the
sad been prorogued. Tbe der-Did-Did you supply all the keys?
had deelinedjon account of ill health, aoadis
ninistry. Tbef.kironer- What portions of the rail were torn up?
Liad was disturbed and trupstienL Witotem-The right-hand side was bulged oat-the left
---- - . tare up.
SPAM, TbsOmbeer-What is the extent of the line under your
SEVILLE, Mae 12, meson. lvr—irboltem,,,,,..-brayes ".. to look arts?b that
i of Montpensier has just been morning I only viewed about • mile and a quarter.
.of a son. By anel Yolland--Lolly view it in the monies. i 1
CADIZ, MAT IS. By the Jury--When I viewed the line that morning I
• h lieu_ thought it Iran perfect. I walked wp one mil and looked at .
&aim, states that a 8 the other, modularized is the same way.
lea assassinated upon the road Camel Yid-Do you think then that the rails were
MOWS op to the dens that the Ma twain peened ever 7
MADRID, MAT 12. Witmer-,I au pf that opilien.
:slera)lo.rtienhir deafer that spot where the
sgissi paper are of opinion that Mr. Marsden wishedto ask the witown Baden if there
win proceed to Mexico, although the = pe ated
Had eay engem spew Shelia, there ?
trimhas announced the contrary. The Coroner had no objection to she question' being put.
apex of the 15th ult. contain news Ramedea, in reply, said-Within the last three years I
t, stating that the conferences of the know of no each occurrence.
iblado at Orizaba had not had a Mr• Joseph Cubit', Siva *newer, of Grua Oserge-street,
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ult. It was expected that General Westmbille" 'laid the "a of the London, Chatham,
asd Dover Railwa as far as now opened. I should I
march upon Mexico, while Gene- AMA shout 95 y
>iles. Every part and depart.
d claim the execution of the COQ- meat has best coustructed, asd is the •
dad. General Almonte was said to very best style. aline on this spot Is • curve of
chains ladies, and • radios of 1 is 132. As an
circular to the Mexican authorities TO
it to treat with the Allies as dictator e&.r alleged ja. the °°"truelia• of tie liar, Ig" •441,M3
, with the exception of the spat tors sin to Os objected to.
an assembly charged to decide upon I have not before this time „an A
. lb. f,.. the last
government most suitable to the four you, lex m Med the materiel ef the Bee at the &s-
-nidest on Saturday morning last. I fetid some of the
trensils broken, but the sleeps' were all right,
By the Coroner-I 'udder the woods' Sessile better
PAL OF THE SPANISH AND than the iron spikes, and four-fif tha of them ace mid on
I FORCES FROM MEXICO. thEastern. e Great Northern. I cannot speak fee the South
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la is the statement of the Jamaica By Colonel Tolland-I am adopting the weed's treenail
with the Woe spike, ea I °midi° them ester, t eikieg rate
tie subject : l
cossideratios •the numerous oxidise; which have lately k-
ern steamer Bertha" intelligence of caned.
log sad most important character has bun John Matthew Gokifiach-About nine o'clock on Friday
xico. The allid expedition to that cone• morning last I raa to the spot with others. After looking
, owing to the sedation taken by the for some few aisles at the effect of the accident I went a
eh themselves in the city of Meeks, and Mile beyond to as if I could ascertain the canoe. I woot
port to what is called the moderate party to the -peat and looked along the lino of mils, and
lish and Spanish authorities in the .ir I noticed that the curves was bulged about thirty or forty
this step as a violation of both the t yards bearer Faversham, between the signal-post sad the •
he treaty between the Allied Powers, vs telegraph. I then walked to that spot and
ded upon withdrawing altogether, laving scraped the gravel away, and noticed the second
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low the course they have marked out for or third chair from the joint had moved
urge camber et Spanish troops had already towards the six-foot way. I masa outwards. There wee
D Savannah t the remainder were embark. no mark on the gravel. I noticed the trend' el that chair
ish vessels of war and a oonsidsrable body was staling up-had started a quarter of an inch. I took
es were deo to leas Vera Cros inane- it with my Seger from the socket of the elide I now
rtes Wyke, the English minister so Mexico, produce it. It is • sound Salad, but it bad been previously
i quitting the country. He and Commie broken. It is of sound wood. 1 noticed that the second
C. 8., the British commissioner under the chair was still further out of dam and three parts of two
to leave shortly after the 21st nee for rails were out of the right curve about two locks Three
Admiral Sir Alexander Milos at that place. or four feet from where I took out this theta was the
was to leave Vera CM for the any of mark of a wheel in the gravel inside the off nil. I cannot •1 .
iy, the list inst. It was expected that tell what produced it.
pond by the Mexicans on their march to By Colonel Yolland-I am experienced in driving tu-
n had been great mortality among the sells in her Majesty's dockyards, and with an experienced
edition at Vera Crun, &tieing from yellow workman is driving they will frequently break. I saw
Ch saris' have also suffered severely several limas on the spot, and they were all of good and •
i. Several of the amdisal sees and allows mead weed.
ito the fever. William. Mills, dell sagliseer, of Canterbery-I am the
resident engineer to the company of the London, Chatham,
weiamaaod Dovsr.iimeaudAbout aibequarlitsrapattlon the morning
ig of the .
TRL 40CIDENT ON THE LONDON.
IN, AZAD ROY'S!! RAILWAY. the bulging eat of the deem limo spoken of to the extent of
---.7 two rails, and it agpsmei 10 sae that the whole of the
port left Faversham yesterday, chairs had did along the dos* feint some great pressure • • .
ion, the engine driver of the train to which from the Inside of Mill silk. I saw the line very much torn
irreg, wmaxatataaa at some length. Be tareandtubedsonad tti,o.VAliint....lt.dwasitoveixfothildhee fourin days. t
it good
bin g °springs I saw the off rail of the order, and wpm* ..f-e-T-
-at. I was 30 yards distant, and called oat By the Commear-1 should think the weight of the engine
it on the break. I cannot amount for the that passed over those rails was 25 tons. I do not think
L out, although I have had 20 yaws. sip, that too heavy for travelling
_on the line with safety.
By Wesel Yolland-I believe the usual weight of an
eagles is 28 rasal had had reports by the platelayer that
'-I ma • stoker in tire metier of the "5" certain engines shake the road out of line. There were
d Dover Railway. I was with the train on two chain 'woken in the length. After the accident I found
cwation, and dig not notice Anything peen. that two of the Maras of the intermediate chain next the
Ached °springs bank. Just se I was put-of rails were broke and the two next
inwardmood slightly from the rails.
joist of the off line u,
on I felt • terrible Id* sad the engine "areal Y 011011 d -Now tell the jury of the stele of the ti
proceeded about 120 yards before it was sera&
• first clue carriages and a asoond slow ear. Witnees-The trawls of the joint chair next Faversham
„ the sadasniunant. The brash yen also were brakes, and the coiner of the chair itself was
broken off. .
no,'"ll„.whLthLengine went of the sails, Colooel Yalta-Will you tell the state of the trenaila
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°' by ''''. ""'" ""tne" is entirely cacratt• between the fetermediate chairs beyond Faysesham !
rurther. I saw nothing, as 1 was putting Witees-There were six trenails broken. They were I
he engine driver, when near the place then sound spin for a little distance. The line was thee i .1
an went over the embankment, warned tan SP. '
eau danger. There was only an instant By the Coroner-I examined the line before the luggage , .
K 1 the accident occurring. About half tax same down.
di I saw the left hand rail had been tern Colonel Ye/hind-Had you done anything to the line
yards, It warn torn up by the cenieges within a few days previous to cause you to hoist a red flag !
ad passed over. Whams-We had been lifting the bank on the Thursday,
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Vhen the engine was stopped it was upon and about a quarter of • mile from Female= a red Beg
gine having previously left the rails was is was hoisted. I 1.1
lain got upon them, but I must say at The Coroner-An you ordered to hoist a red flag wham ,
rem the state of the road I cannot my you arerePaittad the line as • signal of dealer, end do you
tette dropped. The toads: which loft the as.' it?
as did not recover the line. There had Wititeni-We invariably do so. i
layers repairing the line-I can't tell the The Cereuee-fiew lowa have you been employed as •
and after the accident. About half an Ildatelayta!
I saw Plumb lying on the embankment. Witmer-1 have been 15 /ears in that 'ty as • plate-
DO repairing the bun. The engine-driver, layer, and I examined the 800 ever, morfing es I do sow t I
as near the embankment, warned me Of on the EOM LSO. = 8008 a ally.
Colonel Yarned- he has been five years in the pre-
How so? sent company. • '
poki, sharply, but I did not know what be Mr. Mandela end Mr. Phillips wished to know why the 1
witless was discharged by the South Eastern Company ! •
When warned of danger, what do you The Coroner stopped the answer. He mid-1 should pre.
some, after fifteen years servitude, be had left of Lis owe
4 the break. I did not do eo on this ce. accord. i i
uno time. We were over the embank. Simpson, the engine driver, recalled-I slackened speed tl.
that morning on account of the greasy state of the rails, and
Barhan -I am head guard to the ma in order that I might see the auxiliary signal.
on, Chatham, and Dover Railway. On Colonel Tolland, we of the inspectors of the Board of ,
guard to the train which left London at Trade, in the corps of Engineers, said-I inspected this . ,
og particular occurred until I observed portion of the line in 1858, prior to authority bciog given for .
f, which took place about half a mile be its opening. I visited the spot on Sctorday last where the
went off the hoe. I was in the hind break deemed met their dale, and received irJormation from
resented of first and second -class oarriys, the dicers and servants of the company to the effect of that
We travelled from London at our usual given is evidence before the jury this day. From such In-
an hour, which had bun lessened 04 fermatme I have arrived at the cooclusicia that the occur.
i 0•Prioll• to ten miles an hour. The rose took place by the fracturing or breaking of the Seoul&
I taken during the journey. 1 felt the on the of side or south rail of the down line, such fracturing
iately after the minuet seat over I went being decidedly produced by the pressure from the inside of
:meat. the south rail, ceased by the pawed engines and trains. '
n-I am not aware that a train ever west The line being on • curs, the centrifugal force pro-
ud particular spot where the present oocui• clued by strain at a considerable speed round this curve
would have the tendeney at all times to posh the south rail
We started a minute late from Sitting- outwards, That is partly counteracted in the aoastruotios
°stead of 8.26, but whether that time *Rho outer nil by • cant or super-elevation of the outside
• not I cannot say. rail I a cerWnedwhat the cent was on Saturday lasli and
uitinued--So 8000 as the accident had found it to be about two inches. At the same sue the
mined the carriages, and found one of the gauge ni the rail was 4 feet 8,1, inches, which is the usual
on its side on the top of the embeakment gauge of the line, so 'difference being made for the curve.
images-a first and second cisme -were The trenail produced here to-day, I take it almost for certain •
on the embankment, and their wheels proves theism° of them were broken before the 7.10 train
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ands. The unit was a first-class carriage reached that spot, and I have no doubt that engine finished
they were at the bottom of the embank- taws, and, in feet, burst the line. 11 is a matter of opinion
wall. I saw the two deceased on the em. whether the platelayer in making his inspection should •
as lying down and the other was in a sit- have sees that the rails had bulged out before the second
thought the first man was dead. train had pared over it, but my opinion is that such might i
loving examined the line after the accident have °averred as the man walked up viewing the rad&
bad been torn up to the diesels of twenty I have asked the engineniao, the fireman, and the driver d
nee from Victors station to Dover is from the goods train which had previously passed over that pore
dwe perform it in two hours and tea ties of the line, with the view of ascertaining whether they •
p three times on the journey, and the time felt any pork, or had any knowledge of something Wag
dbe sheet eine minutes. On the day of wrest with the rails as they passed over at the time in
about or sear the spot I saw so men at queWa, but received • aegative answer. It, however, is
1 see a red fiag indiertmg auger, quite possible that the goods train might have done same •
w-BWeetlY after the accident I was too cif the mischief one that oommoo, and yet sot have bees ob- ,
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Miss whether the workmen were esseyed served by the platelayer.
g the reds. The 0810008 having summed up,
-We have seven sr eight level unolullea The jury retuned the following verdict:-" That the de.
iver darks= speed at those plows, hat we eased persons were accidentally killed by the tallies of straia
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or so tima, over as antaninnent. The Jury wish fun/sorbs add that the
land-1f an a dry day they would shaken accident was oesmioned by the improper elate of the
we the Maas, mew the spot id the mei- permeAmit way at that particular spot, wad that it was per-
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°maids when the platelayer passed that way, al
n-I am a plate layer ie the amine of elhe perhaps sot Noticed by him. The jury believe idle that the i l
to, and Dewar lialiway. I have hem la 'agape driver woe correct ia hie statement that as he
the hat be yawn. lly datv is is gamin ' travelled aloog the rails he saw the bale, bat sot in tins .
y from Faversham' to Blesoirkill eat to stop the arab. Cosammatly, we, the jury, attach so
odes the spot where the accidost occurred. blame to him. They would, however,' recommend in any
og last I impeded the line as anal a lathe future accident that Delhi*g should be replaced if the
iocepleted my survey a little after Neva government inspector could be pretest within 24 hours."
it oath • day-is the morning. That is The proceedings then terminated.
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