The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-04 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1861.

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THE ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AN]
BRIGHTON RAILWAY.
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BRIGHTON, TIIINDAT.
This morning the coroner and juurryy proceeded to
Beeeeetheem be lair tfks syWuc. of the
pined Culsmail, who it will be remembered was
severely injured by the collision, and has ever
aims remained at the cottage, where he was two.
dyed at the momeet, far too ill to be removed. He appears
to be still very weak, and is tumble to leave his bek and
yesterday was sot so well as be had been towards the sad
of last week, other internal injuries having wane exhibited
themselves beyond those fur which he was previously under
treatment. The very limited accommodation afforded by
the tempwary chamber which the patient occupies, and the
debilitated state in which he is, rendered it neeesary to ex-
clude all but the coroner, the jury, Captain Tyler, and those
who were officially in attendance.
Joseph Coleman having lime sworn, was examined by
the coroner as follows
Cormier—You acted as the head guard the Brighton
excursion train on Sunday morning, the 25th of August?
Wittman—Yes.
Coroner—Do you remember at what time you left the
Bright°. Station .
Witaess—At
Coroner—Ltd you see the distance signal at Clayton
Impala!
Witness—l saw it "all right" for the tunnel.
Coeuner--When you first caught sight of it'
Witness— Yes.
Coroner—How far were you from it when you first saw
the distance signal!
Witaims—Just as we came round the curve.
Commer—How far from Killick were you when you first
saw him ?
Witaims—l was dose to his box.
Coroner—Did he oome out of his box?
Witness—l met my ; he came oat all in a hurry, with
his flag in hie hand.
Caroner—Did he wave it violently!
Wittion—Yes, air.
Coroner—How far had you got when your driver shut off
the steam!
Witness—We were near the tunnel. We shut off steam
1 when we got close to the box.
C•ironer - What did you do!
Applied my break, sir.
I'oi-00er-1)1d you let sand out!
Witoom—l had no sand to make use of. I applied my
break to stop as soon as I could.
Coroner—How far do you suppose you had got into the
tunnel before you came to a stop?
Witness—To the beet of my recollection, :100 or 400
yards in.

Coroner—Did any words peas between you and Scott,
your driver, about what you should do when you were in
the tunnel?
Witness—l shouted out f w him to go ahead, but I don't
suppose he beard me. 1 runt say whether he heard me or
not.
Coroner—Tell me, did you become aware, after you had
stopped, that you were going back!
W itness—Yee.
Coroner—How far do you think you bail got back alto-
gether from where you stopped!
Witness—l ma% say exactly ; but he nude two or three
shunts back, but could nut get luck from my having the
break on ; otherwise I should have gone back with my light.
Coroner—Will you state, to the best of your idea, how far
you went back!
Witness—l can't do that, as the train was in motion when
the collision took place.
Coroner —ln motion back ?
Witness—Yes, sir.
Coroner—At about what speed did you go back. Was it
I one or two miles an hour, or three or four!
Witness—Oh no, we were going very slowly, because I
had got the break on tight.
Coroner —That would be very slow, two or three miles
an hour!
Witness-- I can't may it was as much u that, because I
had seamy break on. Iht is how I got the shock.
Captain Tyler—Which clock did you go by when you say
you started at 8.30 ?
Witham—The company's watch.
Capital Tyler—Was that right by the Brighton station
clock ?
Witmer—Yes.
The Coroner—Which one—the one at the stores!
Wither—.re. one at the store..
The Coroner—Did you compare your watch with the
lock that nursing?
Wither —Yea,
Captain Tyler—Yon do not happen to know the time at
which the collision took place!
Witness— No, sir, Ido not. I could not tell you that.
Goals Tyler— Oan you tell how long it took you to cools
to Llayton Thane' from Brighton ?
Witness—l isn't know that I could now.
Caplan Tyler—Yon did not look to see whether Belli&
was putting th• distance signal o, or what he was doing
Witaises-4 taw bin doing nothing but waving his flag,
and In • bustle. as I saki before.
Captain Tylir—W boa the driver came to a stand, did
you oaks your brook of at all in the Ant instance'
Wittman—Nat
Captain Tyler—Kept it on
Watson—Kept it on. It ran off two or three times, and
the I held is.. in plow. I bad got my hood on the
break at the time ad the coffin= with my head out of the
window. not was whoa I saw the train wax going back.
th Tyler—Es want back without consulting you?
Wrtloasi
sal —o coat not consult me without be got down
sad awn* to me.
Captaie Tyier—Yes would have gone back faster if you
bad sot got the break ma
Witness —Oh, yes ; a great deal.
Captain Tyler—Did you hear the engine slipping as she
was coming back?
Witness—Yes ; that was because of my having the break
oa. She would not have slipped if I hail not had the break
coo.
Captain Tyler—At what speed do you think you were
going when the driver shut the steam off!
Witness—l don't know that I can tell that. I suppose it
might he about 25 miles an boar ; and I cannot tall you
any more.
A jurymen-1 suppose it took you more time to come to
• staudstill in the tunnel and to heck than it would have
done to have gone through the tunnel?
Witness—Oh, yes ; I should say it did altogether.
Juror—Did yea ever pass the distance sigual at safety
and get polled why a lag at the tunnel ?
Witness—No, sir, never.
Captain Tyler—What induced you to put on your break !
Witness—l considered John Scott was breaking the rules,
and that was why I stuck to my post.
I Coroner—Did you look to the south end of the tunnel
while you were ia the tunnel ?
Witness—Yea

'oroner--dWld von see the sod of the tunnel!
Wailer—l could me the train onning upon um.
Mr. Fryer—l would wish, sir, that the witness should be
asked whether any one has taken au account of the accident
from hie lips before to-day.
Mr. Hawkins-- In writing, you mean!
Mr. Fryer. Of course I mean in writing.
The Coroner—lf Kellick had been at the tunnel mouth—l
do not mean in his box—but if he had come down to wave
his flag, should you have seen him, do you think!
Wheelie —I do not think I should have seen him.
A Juror— Were there any platelayers or any other men
at work ID the tunnel on the morning of the accident!
Witness—l did not see any at the time of the accident.
Another Juror--I should like to ask the witness what he
would hare done if he had come to • standstill in the
tunnel!

Coroner—He has already answered that question by
stating that he shouted to the driver to go ahead.
Too day, crows eVO. es. nd., I The evidence was given almost throughout in a whisper.
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to his starting. I observed, looking at my watch, "How
very Lite you are; you are ten imputes behind time." He
eats, "Not so much as that, I think, sir ;" and pulling out
his watch, be sald, "It is just a quarter," and I observed
by his watch it was put the half hour, and he said, "We
are waiting for the Portsmouth train." Immediately after
the Portsmouth train the guard of the Brighton got into
his box beet the engine. Soon after that the Brighton train
started. As soon as the Brighton train was out of sight I
left the platform and came out of the station. I did not
moo anything of the Brighton ordinary. I left the station
before it started. The Brighton excursion had two red
hilts at the back of it. I was uneasy for the safety of m
children when I saw the Brighton train and the Portsmouth
start so near to each other, and ol served that there was no
light at the back of the Portsmouth train, and that made
me take more notice than I should otherwise have done.
By Captain Tyler-- A. far as I could see there were no
lamps at all titbits: the Portsmouth train. If there had
been lighted lamps I must have seen them. Tdo not know
what platform the Portsmouth Ulan started from. I was
on the east platform and could not see the train till it was
out of the station. I have been often at the station, but
never NM trains following so closely one upon the other. I
considered the circumstance most extraordinary and most
durgernus.
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,y the Jury-1 am quite sure that the train 1 took for
Portsmouth train bad passengers in it. I saw the Porte-
piamith train come in and could not be mistaken.
By klr. Geed-11y children were much shaken by the
'widens.

Be Mr. Faithfull—Where I stood was 20 yards beyond
the *roofed part of the station-1 measured it yesterday. My
denghtum mile is the third amine from the engine. The
carnage I was standing by in which my daughters were was
between me and the other train I saw go. No other train
west upon the same line of rails towards London upon
which the Brighton excursion train went between the time
I entered the station, at seven minutes pest eight, and the
time the train which I believe to be the Portsmouth train
started. I estimate that the last carnage of the Ports-
mouth train was not more than :100 yards on when the
Brighton excursion train started. lam ;smith,' there were
no lights at the tail of the Portsmouth train.
By the Jury—lam certain that the Brighton excursion
ran upon the saner line of rails that the Portsmouth train
went upon.
Mr. Peek called atteution to the rule which requires tail
lighta to every train.
John Wood—Had charge of the road from Clayton tunnel
to the north end of the Brighton platform as foreman of
platelsysen. Has taken ilica-age, but not more than
twice, from ICellick, the signalicau, to the station-master at
Hassocks as to the signal Ruing out of order. He said it
would not work. The last time witness carried such a mes-
sage was some time last year.
By Captain Tyler —None of the platelayers were in the
tunnel at the time of the accident.
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By the Jury—William Wham is the man who is the
(after of that part of the line where the distance signal is.
Kellick did not report to him the failure of the signal on
Sunday morning.
John Piper, the stationmaster at Hassock's-gate—The
Portsmouth train passed liaasock's•gate at 8.36 on Sunday
morning. I did not make an entry of it until Sunday night,
and then I dcl so in consenueuce..l the accident. I noticed
the time by the clock at the station.
The examination was procceethug when the last train
left.

During the last day or two • great number of additional
claims have been made fur severe injuries sustained by pas-
sengers by the excursion train to which the accident hap-
haned. and who had not hitherto come forward. These
ve been mostly met by the company in a liberal !milit—
ia many cases considerably mote than the parties expected
having been paid.
BRIGHTON, WIDNERDAY MORNING.
The witness Piper. who was under examination when our
despatch was sent off last night, subsequently deposed that
there were lamps at the end of the Portsmouth train. He
could not say whether or not they were lighted. It was
almost impossible to see in the daytime whether the lamps
of the fast trains were alight or nut when they paw without
stopping.
Mr. Stuck? The driver of the Portsmouth train
states he left Brighton at 8.28; was it possible for him to
have got to Hassocksiste in eight minutes!
Witco's—No, it was not.
Br Mr. Reed—l do not enter the time the trains arrive
at and depart from Hassock's-gate.
By Mr. Pook—l know there is a rule requiring the times
to he entered at each station, but when I first went to
Hassock's-gate eight weeks ago I found no books there,
and imagined that it had not been the custom to make
such entries at that station. I made a special report of the
widest on Tuesday.
Mr. Pook—We shall require that report.
Mr. Faithfull—l am not going to produce whatever ILL
Praia chooses to call for.

• Pooh-1 call for that report, and ask the Coroner to
do his duty.
Mr. Fryer made • similar application.
By the jury--The special train service was supplied to me
on Saturday, August 25, at about 5 or 6 in the afternoon.
We have • rule that trains are not to follow from any
station at leas intervals than five minutes, but see sometimes
let the second train pate on without waiting the five
minutes, cautioning the guard and driver to proceed slowly.
William Holman, the signalman at the Hastings Junction
of the Brighton station—l was on duty on Sunday morning
week, August 2.1 Ido not keep onv rekord of the times
when trains pass. The Portsmouth excursion passed me
on that morning at 8.29. lam quite ruts of that. I take
my time from • clock supplied me by the compory, and
which is in my hut on the platform. The Brighton ex-
cursion train pulsed me at 8.32 ou the mine morning, and
the Brighton ordinary passed at about 8.36.
By Captain Tyler—My clock was, I believe, right. I
did not compare it with anything.
It appears that three tains passed out, the first two with
an interval of three minutes, and the last two at an interval
of four minutes ; is that anything unusual!—Very
unusual in the case of three trains, but it is not unusual
for two trains to pass at as short an interval as three or
four minutes. My signal is always at caution, but I can
put it at extra caution. I did not think it necessary to
put on extra caution on that occasion. I should give extra
caution if there were soy obstructions within • mile.
If one train followed as close to another as two minutes. I
should stop the second ; but 1 eiould not do so if there
minutes between them, because three minute, would allow
the find train to clear the junction and get a mile and a half
along the road. The interval specified iu the rules is five
minutes, but the increase of tb taut& has rendered it nee
canary to allow trains to follow =eh other occasionally at
less intervals. I have bad no orders to depart from the rules
of the company in this respect.
By the jury—lt gwsnlly happens in excursion trains
that this tale is disregarded. It is no uncommon this' to
start an excursion tram, and to follow it at lees than five
minutes with an ordinary train, the one being a through
train, going on without stoppages, and the other a train
that stops at every station. I did not observe whether
there were light, at the tad of the Portsmouth train. I
may have allowed one train to pass when another was
about • mile aimed. The Portsmouth train was
not out of sight when the Brighton excursion came up.
By the Coroner—l think the Portsmouth train was a
mile and • half on to the north when the Brighton estrus
don train reached my station. No other trait', either of
empty carriages or pi /mangers, passed on to the main line to
London on that morning except the Portsmouth rod
Brightoo excursions and the ordinary Brighton traius.
By Mr. Pooh—Mr. Carpenter, the inspector of the cow
pony's police, came to me and asked me Dome questions
about the times the trains passed, and I answered him,
giving him the same account I have given here. I thought
from the manner in which he 1,141110 to me that I was in
custody, sod asked him if it was so. I could have under
stood, it if my superintendent or any superior officer had
Dona to me with such questions, but Mr. Carpenter is not
one of the company's regular servants. He was accom-
panied by Mr. Stem], a publican.
Mr. Pooh—Did Carpenter not threaten you If pm in-
sisted upon giving the times of the train passing, and tell
you that would be taken before • higher tribunal!—No.
He said I might have to soswer before • higher tribunal,
which I thought very likely, for the tribunal I was then
answering was Mr. Carpenter and Mr. Stead. (Laughter.)
By Mr. Faithful] —lt as not true that the Brighton ex-
cursion train started before the Portemouth excursion had
passed the ticket platform. When the latter started from
the arrival platform, the other had reached as far as the
junction at Lover's-walk. I should hay that the two trains
were two miles apart when the Portsmouth train passed
the junction.
By Captain Tyler—l cannot my whether the first train
lied reached the Pateharn tunnel when the third train
started, because the foliage is at this time of the year so
thick as to shut out the num, but there is an opening about
two-and-a-half miles from me which the first train bad
passed when the thin' train started. I can almost gay the
three trains were in eight together. I gave • check to the
third train of shout half • minute.
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Jeremiah Lows, a lad of 10 years, the son of Ellen Lowe,
one of the deceased, was the next witness.—Wax a pas.
manger with his father and deceased mother in the Brighten
excursion train. Left Brighten station at exactly 25
minutes to 9 hy the clock near the stores in the nerd.
When be saw the red gag at the entree*" to the tune.) the
engin. was in the tunnel. The train backed when in the
tunnel, but could not say whether it wan backing when the
collision took piece. fie was looking out of the window
of the time towards the tunnel, and saw the signal-man
wave a white flag at the entrance and wove it three times,
and, having done so, go back to the steps of the signal-box. I
The tunnel was not quite clear of steam. About a minute
and a half elapsed from the waving of the flag before witness
saw another true enter the tunnel. Immediately afterwards
the colliaien took place, and the carriage he was in was
shattered to pieces, and he knew not what became of biro.
The guard of the excursion train mart have seen the white
flag if he had looked beak. The train was backing when
the white Bag wee waved.
The court then adjutuned at 10 o'clock till this morning.