The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-19 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER. 19, 1859.

THE GRILIT E 111171.104

• ADJOURNED INQUIET.
WEYMOUTH, &yummy !Corr.
The adjourned inquest ea the bodiesolJohn Boyd,
!Whorl Mahon, MANI ll`Droy, Robert Edson, sal
Missed Edwards, sla' sod tressayttliskot tbsir lives by
ties explosion ce board hie OraM EsMAra. vas ronuoed this
sorbing Was Mr. Remy Locks, caraws Is. the meaty of
Dorset.

There were present Mr. Scott Roma end his legal ad-
visor, Mr. Newman, of the firm of Treated,ld and Co. ; Mr.
Totes, son., the secretory of the old sompony ; Captain
Holeebon.
Holes;rtion. of Ma Bawd of Trade; Mr. thdieway, of
the Bead of Trade; Mr. Lenses, the solicitor of the cora-
may ; Mr. Lows" espraspetiag • committee of shore.
holders; Copts's' Harrison, Ike captain; Mr. 311..erinon.
chili animal of the ship; Mr. Moons, one of the directors.
end others.

The public era not reprobated by more than WI a dam
?MOMS prank at any time daring the preeeediama
Yr. Larva aid he me preeent an behalf of the CJa-
mime of shareholder% and had no wish nneaceeesriiy topes-
tract the inquiry. _ .

Mr. Rol;rt eelloway, C.B yam arse examined by the
dormer, sald I em tat:;:asering innveyor to the Board of
Trade. I came from London to Poetiaad to the Orme
Eastern steamship, nudes the direction@ of the Berveyes•
General of the Board of Tads. We left the Nets es the
rooming of the 9tb, about nine o'clock, and all went well
until we arrived off Meetings, where ea explosion took plass
to the water main of the knead peddle boiler, which se-
stonily scalded several of the themes, sad @lightly injured
two of the passengers, end every minas wee used
to get the poor men front the slairs-hols, sad
Hanisca est a very good ussople is this respect, which
I believe was followed not only by the crew, but by wend
et the pawners.
Tea Comna--What in your opiaten wee the came of
the accident P

..7Wilma;—After the explosion I emminell the brollies
ratan, mad I found a cock on thentilde of the water cern
was Moved, which shut off Mc pipe. This beteg
dosed prevented the stern trap g which would be gene-
rale& la the water corm and the water casing being shat
of he. the helm revere& all oak for the steer
It them berme • realm of lime how long the
water *Wag word kat, r the steam increased la
premere. I biter ihmi dm Means mad have been decant-
peril, end trod the lira Ilea ialtuncrbie gee, and that
the inner awiagailVdesaliwwki We oxygen, of the air to
mix with It, aid es Imediatety occurred. Kr.
Dint ins with as, see Otitis Robortaan. what I ex-
amined the wok and trinA !Wend.
Inetaineby Ompleis ealinsta-1 attribute the accident
tors Nees Wag Illakeed k the eastag at the time. Mks
as* bad net bat dial tee the beir td, the accidiat
coed tat have Intigesitd, talent could it have Unmet U
the melt bed ben spin nod the hod" that ae. The
" cock" came Iwo bus el at en Wanner In the wren

of7M-segiwit—e or-heilms-711-;;;MTillet7t-hecoa bed hen
sorted fir the peeper of lsMlag timesphon tubs by bydniulic
=.lprenneleitte beam seal. The roily potables um Mtn
'6 woonematedangew. I dean lisownew bag the "hod"
bad bees duet atheist On winks took place. If One
bed heat a hots sum in the syphon at the top, status woad
home herd his Seem ; if tt etre not °pet tee steam would
have noised late then** hole; but as it issued neither his
the ter air the bottom, the infereace might have bees drain
thud Me oak was An. Them was • °sting round the
frank ceseistieg of leak etesschicals sail pmforstal Moe
patching. I lam se doubt whatnot is to the came of the
enfant. Do set knew who was in charge of the venal.
Xi. DllOll arpomal to ban the enrol of the paddle snidest
Mt I am sot antis.
By Mr. Lesions-II the standpipe had beet eluted, and
the °eateries bonus theraang and the boilers net kept
apes, the might haveworked lot TA yaws
without sty
Defer* ezathe pat witness the coroner enticed
the ,pine eta of the vessel that they were not
c npw
dkd to answer ram question which might crialitste
themseine.
. .

Alawnin li'Lensan was then examined by Capin Re-
twine, and in hie endow, he raid—l am acting as abler
ingiseer on board the Great Eastern etratentip. I have
Des attacked to the ship twenty-three menthe. If y deity
up to the time of the ship leaving Deptford wee to make
repel( acquatneed with all the information relative to the
be.ilers mid engines of the ship. It wee no part of my
duty to report to the dinerres of the cowpony anything
tbst I d Wept roved of. Mr. Dien the represented's of Mr.
Been Roswell took entire control of thermion I rendered
him say eminence I could. If he wanted • pall at the
wheel I gave It him, or if he wanted • msmsgr tooveyed I
mat it. I was s the Great *anon at elms fiat tine

7eservi.airsgrth7 errateraToon-dtio;itinnW Were tiled by Mr.
a.ar. people. Mr. Dixon wee superintending the work.
1 was not there when the boilers were tested. Previous to
leaving Deptfaed I wee not aware that the ox ka were on the
pipe, but on one wad= during the construction of the
wetter Mater, or juke, the cock wee sticking in the hole,
Imaging without any pipe attached to it. Mr. Dixon and
myself WOO walking along the deck on the port side, and he
mad What is that doing hers?" pointing to the oak. My
answer wee, "1 do not know." He made no further re.
mark, and went away; that is all I knee about the cock.
Previous to the explosion I did not know that the cooks
were on the pips. I knew there wee a standpipe. Ido sot
know of what urn they were.
By Mr. Leverson—l would not now ac opt the donkey
engines as Iniellard on the part of the company. I do not
welder the meant which were working on Friday were
esflafeeteey seginee.
Examination menmed—Oa the voyage from Landau Mr.
Reetrell gun a general superintendence to the engines, and
was frequently about the engine room.
=as Coronet-77e four engineers who bad signed the
were the merman of the company, bookie, Into the
Womb el Mr. Reset Russell. They were paid by the rom-
pers,. My duties se engineer in chief would commence
when th. engines won eocepted. 1 her! Mr. Patrick tell
Mr. Dixon that the donkeys were very troublesome, end that
he bad turned the feed off from the casing and turned it
the boiler in the old way. That wee after the accident. I
did not think that that circumstance showed a dangerous
slats of the machinery. My oploionon that subject would
sot have been altered, even if I bad known of the existence
of the "cock." I think the "cock" ought never to have been
*ad there. Neither of the donkey engines broke down,
but they worked very imperfectly. To what extant I cannot
may they were doing the beet they could.
By Capt. Robertson—The instruction. given to the men to
take the orders of Mr. Dixon cad Mr. Roman's men were
"Ile;before leeviog the Non.
i Mr. Lawton—l did not approve of the toiling of the
vessel in the state of the machinery, but it was not my busi-
ness to mode any report on the subject to the diteclors. I told
Mr. Brunel what a dreadful state of things there was onboard,
sot • eingle job dabbed. There was nothing substantially
wrong In the machinery at the time of starting; my opinions
referred merely to matters of detail. Had I been sake I my
°piston I should have advised the directors not to have /sled
the ehip at the time.
Mr. John Dixon, engrafted by Captain Robertson-1 am
mthseriog newer to Mr. Brett Respell. The paddle-wheel
machinery was oonducted under my superintendence, in-
cluding the water casing of the tunnel. The caring was
commenced by the company end completed by Mr. Suit
Hessen. • part of it was done during the time of the old
mammy. and a part under Mr Rummell, and I was employed
by Mr. Russell, as well as by Mr. Bennet ander the astern
amain Navigation Company. The water beater was con-
structed by me for the old company, and not by Mr. Russell,
who had nothing to do with it. I ordered the cock to be put
is the pipe for the purpose of testing the water casing.
Why was it net taken off after the testing P
Baena I think there ought always to be a cock upon all
heaters. Most likely I pie direction. for pottier; up the
syphon pips in enesszles with the casing. If the pipe had
been brain, and there had been no cock at the top, the warm
water passing out at the tap would spoil the e.bins. The
eypbon pipe would also be labiate be injured by ropes.
Would you think of putting a cock in a waste steam pipe?
• warte steam pipe Is sot like a water pipe. I sow the
waver coming out of the steam pipe is the stoke hole, and
seem going out of the top, at ell the trials at Deptford.
The cock wee in sli that time. The syphon was lengthened
after the lest trial, when Mr. Brunel was present, but after
the leingibtaing no further trill took place until the ship left
Deptford, end I did act observe eberwards that there wee
either means or water escaping from the syphon. I saw no
steam or watts escaping from the pipe after the addition to
its kegth. I did not look for It. I was very ranch engaged
in other ports of the 'hip. The man is bees who lengthened
the pipe, and I am quite ears that previous to lengthening
the pipe It was pa Thom was a little door atm the
deck, by 11101011 ammo could be obtained to the
cock. Having been the maker of the paddle engines,
I felt an Interest in their workbag, bet I never gave an order
nor reomMed any In ooneetiou with their waking. !did
not consider myself is any way In (hires of the eagle. 1
gave every erWehihos in my power. After the Louth week,
when Mr. Dewed was three, I understood that the etgaes
IMO the peoperty duke company. My impression certabaly
was that is imeletinci the working the themes !Ley were the
prepwty of the einspany_. 1 considered Mr. M.l.dunan in
'beep 01 110 anima Hs 19A all upon himself in the same
name ea lAM whoa I was chief en Inver All the Maths°.
does ware Om tram the deck. I regulated the throttle
Wee in tese. and Mr. Await the injection. The caws of,
ski aidgmi was *awn dthe sod." The dirty wafer
la the believe se Purled sleeted the donkeys. After the
ship UR Parfait the boilers commenced " primin&" sad
It was that asaoyed the &saga (A latigh.) On leaving
the Non the deekeys were still troublesome. Ido not know
at whet time on Fraley the "feel" was shut off. I was
about • short time with the director.. Ido not reco'lact
Patrick telling me that had done so, I wee maths by the

Greeters then 11r/oink, seat wham/hey the men engine
ware sewedreilL. enet Gib amen benign the peed nein to
a The enginien mem esneed br bet nek
bang toed ell, eat se weir Wag applied t the cedes.
The ausiden emelt net ban imprend if the cock bad not
ben then If to gedt het tees shut off, sat the feel
ef went herd bp We the aim there would kayo bees no
At fa lest Mal of the ashen, which wee made
ilintlirklyeedenee et Mr. finial, he nit " Thst will do."
iligle.:11" "Pt watts/ iron 1 1 o'clock, end I nn-
that that via their hebbieg trial, and that so
her is I wee nantell &bedlam with the nathinery ; and
Gellairmoene nth the alp then wee no reeponsibility
, On I wee rest in charge of the machinery
Kr. newt pee ne dame. Ido not wielder the&
Mr. Rani wee Ingeedble. After the explosion I 'Remind
the cock, end hod It elm& I afterwards examined the
cock on the ether kaki with Mr. Galloway, sad found it
'ern. This vet sheet es hoer after the map hens.
By Mr. Lowege-I put the cook there In the first instance
to beet the het weir: I left it there foe no
occasion. 1 tie ni Isom whether It is not unarlotipaysr
such • oak. I brie sae so laM aow before. All pipes
taken fern hit went It Mean soak hare eats Of valves
upon then I ettembell the Ors without any thought.
One of the agred was wrought 1y ton Hs other by Mr.
Arno*. I mein. &eaten hen ink, Ido not know
Mess wham. The duty of a petripl nighseer is to give di-
rteekr.ol end receive repocts. I wethelineof the Sligifilk and
lb. Anent the other, and while Meg se I Emden report to
Mr. 11.1anan. Every time he pined through the signo-
re= we had some oonvenstion on the subject. I was put
Into the portion of working one' of the engine', I nape*
because I sno an old hand and had generally worked engine
on the trial tripe. I received instructions from no person is
work the engine, and did not consider it necessity to repeat
to any person. The neck wee on a level with the deck.
There wee a door opening to it, and ft could be reached by
say person, but could not be turned except by a "spanner.
I made no report to say person shoat the "creek" being In
the position in which it was. The engine were completed
by me, for Mr. Russell. The "cock' to which reference
has been made does not appear in the &swap of the enrage'
which were given to the coulany ; It eras too email me Oral
to put in them. Mr. llmeothen resat at the lest teak
did not express anopinion turdelleetory of the working of
the engines, bat simply said, That will do," at the close of
the trial.
Was not stopple, the cock sad the feed precieely the some
as that of stopping the safety valve P
It was. If the 000 k had ben open it would have made no
matter whin the feed went. The Crucese between this
trip to Weymouth and other trial trips wee that in other
nese I should mama the entire management of everything
counseled with the enginee, but in this cues I was set in
command at all.
By Mr. Newman—There ere many matters of anal in
the inachinery not shown in the drawler. In the trial
of Mr. RiseseWs other ship, his own men and hie own 74
wen employed. and I have charge in almost all came o the
machinery. The pilot in most owe has the control of the
navigation of the vessel. hi'Lessma saw the stopcock, and
drew my attention to It before the waden casing was put
rowed it, and be raid to us, " Kelm, what a this doter
here r I told him, end be salt " Leen it there sod
I will look der it." I rather think that I dined
lit'Lminea's attention to it in the nest instance. One
donkey aurae was inifibleat to feed the boilers, end it was
latentid by Mr. Brawl that one should do the work, is.

big la pierve.
11/p Mr. Laverson—l will swear positively that Mr.
Ilimerem told me he would look after the cock.
if the Coroner—l never in the course of the voyage ex-
emlited the state of the cock. Ide not recollect that Patrick
UM to me and told me he had shat off the " feed ;" he must
have dome so.
Mr. Levemon—Did not Mr. Brand tell you to remove the
oath f —Never.
Will you swear that!—l will most certainly. Mr. Brunel
never had any communkation with as. oa the 'abject.
By Captain Robertson-1 believe that, after the explosion,
some person west down to the altar funnel and turned the
cock. At the time of the axplosiou the rock' of both fennel
canny were shut.
Captain Robertson—That it b a mercy from heaven that
the other !Masi ad not go at the same time.
By ins Camber—l don't know who opened the cook of the
esemil thud. I think some one told me that it had been
opened. I comet my at present whether it was my own
son who opined it; mulishly he might have done coo. He is
preemt.
Mr. J. Boy-Campbell, sworn sad examined by the Coro-
neer, said—l em the chairman and one of the
dire:ears of the Greet Ship Company. In my c=3g rtia3
managing director it was my duty, to a great extra, to give
mien fee tho ening of the ship. The adore were glee. in
emmaniestlas with the board of &Mon. I considered
that Mlles time of starting we ware is a prow muddies to
give the sereasavy errdees ear serithug. We embed feats Daft-
ford on Wednesday, the 7th instant. Captain Hannon was
ementenda of the ship at the time. The "hip was in charm
of the pilot while in the river, and esti' we snived at Port-
land. TM rime pilot was Mr. Randers, and the ma pike
Mr. Addams., but Mr. Atkisson throughout was in chief
ohmic They were in charge as pilots, performing the hum
lions of pds.th and acting with the responsibilities of pilots
on behalf of the company. As managing director I was In
communication with Mr. Russell and Meow. Boohoo and
Watt several weeks before the departure of the ship. At
the time of the departure it was arranged, sad thoroughly to
the knowledge of the engineers, and with the view
to the security of their reeponsibility, end with tegani
to their responsibility, that they should select the
paeans to be in charge of the engines daring the
trial trip, and before they were made over to the cowpony.
la the arrangements for the ttepartum of the ship that ques-
tion was discussed personally between Mr. Rummell, Mr.
Jackson, and myself, and several of the directors. Mr.
Russell and Metes. Boulten and Watt were anxious to have
the nomination of the chief engineers in the management
and entrel of their respective engthes up to the time that
we were satisfied their trial bad terminated, and their re.
'feasibility had ceased. Lad so desirous was Mr. Russell,
sad such wee his confidence in his engines, that a pods*
trial sheald be made, that I believe that it was his Intention
to accompany us to America, and certainly it was arranged
that dm elegising awoMted as his behalf should make
the vogikti:dAtairka sad beck In the ship. The trip
Mai to Portland was mealy putting the engines
end gear to trial. It wee not a trial trip at all. The trial
trip. as advertised by the company, was from Portland to
Holyhead. Those advertiseeneuts would show what were
the views of the company on that en*et. If everything
had ggesnaee an well to Portland, we should certainly not have
eneldsred it a trial trip. We did not consider the ran frau
I Portland es • trial trip, and we were anxious nth
burt to
public on board &ohm that voyage. I considered
that both the paddle and mew seenee were working under
tho nernsibility of their respective engineers, and that they
would be must decidedly respousible for any sociderit that
might occur on the voyage. There was a complete and per.
feat understanding to that effect between the directors sad
Mr. Remelt and Messrs. Bonitos and Watt, and the solicita-
tion was made, no at strowriy, on their part, to have the
Domination of the engineers, is order that they
might satisfy us on their own responsibility of the efficiency
and completsnew of their engines. There was a complete
nadersoanding between the dirt dors of the company sad
Mr. Russell and Messrs. Don't= and Watt, that the
amass would be worked spots their respoloibility, and that
for anything which might happen to them they would be
liable up to the time of the contract being completed. If
that hal not lo en the case we should have felt it a duty in-
cnothent upon us to submit the enetheere appointed by them
to a WWI ten respecting their efficiency and fitness for the
dukes of the office to which they were nominated by those
patleraea. There was no written agreement to this effect
Mimes the parties, and that for the beat of all reasons, viz ,
that the contractors volunteered end almost insisted that
they should appoint their own engineers. In virtue of that
ma newer latertemd, for, bad we done so, we should have
vitiated their liability. The understanding was a verbal
eau but I believe a letter may be found addressed ruira
Rama to Mr. Brunel, advising that the engineers
be appointed by the respective contractors, and In my pre-
sence he reverted Mr. to name those engineers; and
he did so, and mid they were reedy and would be mat on
board at once. Oae of the perm. named smeared to Os
well known to Mr. Brunel as well sa to Mr. Resell.
mßy the Coroner—Who suggested the dose of the ship
aim ?
Wit am—Both the directors end the contractors IMO
equally anxious the the vessel should leave the river, beams
was a common remark that eke would never be finished
while there. Mr. Remelt endeavoured very energetically to
get her away on Tuesday, bet falling In that, we left the river
en Wedaseday.
You cAasidrred, then, that thalamle responeibility of the
seseitiwory rested upon the contractors, and not upon the
cempriny !—Meat deviled!, upon the contract( re.
Who took epos himself the charge of the inachluerw
the trip to Portland P—l should my that Mr. Rama or hie
for (Dixon) was in charge of the paddle engines. Mr.
Russell was, I think, on the bridge directing the movements
of She sealer, and posing conimmicatioss from the piles to
the amines!' below.
Mr. Scott Remelt, sworn and examined, said—l amm
the Miro. r and builder of the Groat Eastern, and maker
of the paddle-wheel enetnes, excepting so far as Mr. Bread
erigthated die design of the ship. With respect to the trial
hip between Deptford sad Portlaud, I had nothing to do
With it, directly or indirectly, as a matter of business. As
a reati,7 of personal Interest, I took the deepest pereensl
miev,st in :"'affair. Doris( the trial trip the paddle
aegis. were not it: soy way seder my amino' or super-
lalsodesor. From the Mg Vied thi fourth trial of the
Eawas made, In owderMty with the contra:!, the
beri engimi Went delivered up to the =Dishy.
was the Weduesd befure the et!, foi!, who,
wee as the following Wednesday. I was on board the
Groat Rasters at the time et the accident. The
eaglet Can headed over by me to the angtheers
of the company. The man who were about them owed
to be la my pay. I undermood so fault war found, en the
fourth trial, whh the engines, sad under the cataract there
ma ea =I at my reapoerblabb