The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-14 00:00:00

IRELAND

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
. DUBLIN, THURSDAY.
THE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
Of the sufferers in the Hospital, Miss Pack is still in a very
low and dangerous state, owing to the supervention of
erysipelas in the legs ; Miss Coffey has been despaired of,
she being in the last stage of consumption ; Miss Farrell is
.going on tolerably well; and Dr. Stokes's servant has been
pronounced out of danger.
THE ADJOURNED INQUEST._ - .

The inquest was resumed at Naas yesterday. In addition
to those present on the former day, Captain Tyler, R. E.,
Government Inspector, attended ; also Mr. Fitzgibbon, Q.C.,
with Mr. Carlton, attorney, on the part of Berry, the guard
of the express train.
Mr. Ilberry being re-called for re-examination, deposed
to the following effect thought a train with twenty
carriages could be stopped in half a mile on a wet night.
When the engine broke down, the guard should have seen
that there was a red tail-light on There ought to have been
one on from Kildare, and the station-master there should
have seen to it. On the previous nights there was a red light
on, but he only stated that on the evidence of the company's
servants. There was no invention to communicate between
the guard and the engine-driver ; anybody who discovered
it would receive £20,000. When witness went to the scene
of the accident, he asked Berry why he did not use the fog-
signals, and he answered that he did not consider it neces-
sary, it was so lightsome. Gass, the driver of the cattle
train, said that he did not think Berry's signal was more than
100 yards from him, and that he did all in his power to pull
up ; he said he was about half reversed. One break with
the break on the tender, was sufficient for the goods train.
It would be impossible for Gass to pull up at 100 yards.
The signal post at Straffan could be distinctly visible from
where the accident occurred ; it is visible for a. mile at the
Sallin's side of the accident; it would not be the duty of
the engineer to slacken speed at two miles distance from the
red light if he saw it then ; it would not indicate that there
was an obstruction at the place of the accident ; it would tell
him he was to pull up at that place ; he must come up to
the red light, but not pass it ; the red light indicates that
there is danger in the immediate vicinity of it ; a white
light, a flag, a hat, or even the hand waved up and down,
would be a signal to the engine to stop ; it would be Gass's
duty, if he saw the red light at Straffan, and carriage tail
lights, to creep on slowly, and to pull up immediately at
half-a-mile distance. Witness was not aware that it is the
order of the Government to have a break van at the end of
the passenger train.
Captain Tylyer—ln the reports of the Board of Trade, I
think that there is such a recommendation.
Mr. Ilben y—l recollect that after an accident on an Eng-

lish line, with which I was connected, Colonel Paisley, tile
Government Inspector, recommended that the break should
be placed between the engine and the first carriage, where
it now is.
To Mr. Stephens—The guard has no instructions to 're-
quest the passengers to leave the train in the case of a break
down. It is left to the discretion of the
_passengers themselves
in such cases ; the stoker takes his instructions from the
engine-driver ; witness found a broken lamp on the line,
which had been used, by Berry the guard on the night in
question. [The lamp was here produced, and it had a red