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diseases of the respiratory organs (exclusive of phthisis),
the corrected, average number being 404. Bronchitis was
mueli more fatal than in any previous week of the present
winter season, 316 persons having died from this disease.
Pneumonia, on the contrary, shows a somewhat lower mor-
tality than the average ; it diiied "Off 93 persons.

Two hundred and three deaths occurred from phthisis
86 from diseases of the heart, gold 183 from diseases of the
brain and nervous system. , •
Thiity-eight persons wero killed by accidents, 16 deaths
occurred from fractures -or contusions, 3 children and 2
adults (lied from burns or scalds, 5 persons were drowned,
and 9 infants and one adult were suffocated. Two persons
committed suicide,- and two infants were murdered.
The widow of a baker, aged 65 years, was found dead on
Jan. 20, at 10, Compton-street, Clerkenwell, from exhaus-
tion from exposure to cold and neglect. The son of- a
cooper, aged 13, died on Jan. 17, at Guy's HosEital, from
hydrophobia,Jhe result of his having been bitten by a dog
a month previously. Two tyaths occurred from traumatic
tetanus.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the moan height
of the barometer in the week was .29430 deg. The baro-
metrical reading incrAased from 28.86 in. on Friday to
29.85 in. at the end of the week. The mean temperature
of the air in the week was 31.7 deg., which is 6.3 deg. below
the average of the same week in-50 years (as determined
by Mr. Glaisher). 'The highest day temperature was 38.0
deg. on Monday. The lowest night temperature was 19.6
on Sunday,
.The entire range of temperature in the week
was therefore 18.4 deg. The mean of the highest tempera-
tures of :the water of the Thames was 401 deg. ; that of the
lowest was 38.3 deg, The. difference between the mean
dew-point temperature and air temperature was 4.0 deg.
The mean degree of hurni4ty ff the air was 85, complete
saturation being represenylAy:loo. Rain fell to the
• amount 'of duti.4 CA': -*The general dire6tien
of the wind was N.E.

The Fatal Accident in the Blackheath
Railway Tunnel.

Yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock Mr. C. J. Carttar, coro-
ner for West Kent, resumed the inquiry at the Railway
Tavern, Lee, into the circumstances attending the deaths of
five men named Wade, Jones, Smith, Morris, and Seeby,
platelayers, in the service of the South-Eastern Railway
Company, who were killed by the collision which took place
between a passenger and a ballast train in the Blackheath
tunnel of the North Kent line, on the night of Friday, the
16th December.

Mr. Edward Duncan Chapman, station master at Black-
heath, was re-examined, and said it was about three-quar-
ters of a mile from the Blackheath entrance of the tunnel to
the spot where the accident occurred. The witness then,
in reply to the coroner, minutely detailed the whole of the
signals relative to the up and down traffic, received and for-
warded at the Blackheath station on the afternoon of the
16th December.

Thomas Randall, the breaksman of the ballast-train in
question, and who left the Royal Marine Hospital about a
week since, stated that he had been in the service of the
South-Eastern Railway Company aboutsix years, and at the
time of the accident he had been employed as a breaksman
about three weeks. He was with the ballast train on the
afternoon of the 16th of December, and was certain that
when the train stopped at the Charlton station the tail
lamps were lighted. These lamps were lighted at Dart-
ford. He received no particular instructions from
Lancaster, the guard of the train, before it left
Charlton. The train, on entering the tunnel, proceeded
for some distance at about the usual speed. It was very
foggy and dark in the tunnel. Witness had a hand-lamp,
n more than The lights from the tail-
than a yard or two, in conse-
quencelwamh i
pc hs
choeu
Inds endo
twit e ns ere eq
of the fog. When the train had proceeded some dis-
tance up the tunnel it became very steady and ultimately
came to a stand. He immediately turned on his break in
order to prevent the train from going back, knowing that
it was on an incline. He heard some of the platelayers cry
out, " Break on, Tom," but he could not say whose voice
it was. After putting on his break he was in the act of
getting down from his carriage to use some fog signals
when the up passenger train ran into the ballast train.
He was thrown over the buffers and under the engine, and
did not for some time remember what took place.

By the Coroner—He was certain that ht did not speak to
Lancaster, and' did not see him. It would be the duty of
the guard to come and see me before he divided the train.
James Jones, the acting signalman at the Blackheath
station on the night of the accident, was then called. He
said, after being cautioned by. the Coroner, it was his wish
to give every information in his power respecting Rie..4411
which he should deeply-deplore as long as'rtie
witness then read the following statement :—I entered the
company's service two years last August as porter, which
situation I held up to a week previous to the accidont,when
I was placed in the signal-box to do duty for the signalman,
who was ill. I don't believe I had done more than 20 hours'
duty in the signal-box, that is to say, when there was any
signalling to do, before I took charge of it, so that my pre-
vious experience was but little. However, when I took the
duty, I hoped T should have been able to have performed it
satisfactorily. My duties were to attend to the signal-box
from 7 in the morning till 6 in the evening, with the excep-
tion of one hour allowed for dinner. After coming out of

the box at 6 I had to await the arrival and to attend the 6.17
down train. Whilst in the box I had to receive and give
telegraphic signals to and from Lewisham station, and to
and from Angerstein. I had besides to enter signals in five
different places for each train in the signal-book. In addi-
tion I had for each train or engine to attend to the sema
phore and distance signals, and upon each train passing to
show my flag or hand signal that all was right. I will now
state briefly the circumstances connected with this lament-
able accident, so far as I am able, and in doing so it will
be necessary for me to show the traffic that passed through
the station within three-quarters of an hour of it. (The
witness then recapitulated the number of trains which
passed through the tunnel, and the number of. signals he
gave during the time stated, from which it appeared that
the traffic was especially heavy at that period of the day.) I
believe I had in addition the block signal prior to the coal
train signal from Angerstein, but this I am not quite sure
without seeing the train service book. It had been the
practice prior to this day to send the coal train off first from
our station; and I was ordered by the head porter to keep
the coal train and send the empties off first, which was the
cause of the ballast train being kept at Charlton. During
this timo the traffic was very great, and I felt it was as
much as I could do to attend to it properly. After the coal
train was gone, and I had given the line clear to Angerstein
I had the 4 5 express signal down; and after passing that

on to Angerstein andreceiving "Line clear," I had the 4 20
express signal down. Somebody at the time came running
out of the telegraph office telling me there was a train wait-
ing at Charlton. This message, together with the heavy
traffic then taking place, caused me to get confused, and I
gave the signal " Line clear." I was so confused I did not
know what I was about, so much so that I was very much
surprised to find it was the outside porter who brought me
the telegraph message, and I could have sworn it was one
of the telegraph boys. After the down express had passed
our station I thought I had done something wrong as re-
gardst he signalling. I immediately sent for Mr. Chapman,
the stationmaster, to tell him what I had done. I did not at
that moment know of the accident. He came down after
half of the ballast train had passed the station. He came to
me, and I think I told him what had taken place as to my
signalling. All would have been well if I had been left
alone, and had not received a telegraph message, which
seemed wholly to confuse me.
In reply to the Coroner, the witness said he always felt a
little nervous in the afternoon, when working signals, in
consequence of the large amount of work to be done, and
his little experience. The ballast train being so long behind
worried him a great deal. He was well acquainted with the
signals, but he was inexperienced, and thought it required
a man to have constant practice before he got the " nerve"
for such onerous duty.
By the Jury—He was 24 years of age. He had never:to
his recollection, been so pressed before as he was on that

afternoon.
By Mr. Chapman (the Blackheath stationmaster)—l
never said to you that the duty was too much for me.
The Coroner having summed up,
The Jury retired for upwards of an hour, and returned to
verdict :
" We find inquest-room
against James Jones,
theh
e porter,
a verdict
andwle t
o eh thenfmanslaughter
e tder following
that
the error of his transmit-
ting the wrong signal arose from his not being sufficiently
experienced as a signalman. With regard to Lancaster, the
jury are of opinion that Lancaster, having gone to the rear
of the train, omitted his duty by not taking the usual pre-
cautions to prevent the accident, as laid down by the rules
of the company, he having had sufficient time to do so.
The jury are also anxious to call attention to the following
recommendation :
" ' That it is desirable that the company should enforce
the strict carrying out of their own rules in all cases, and
that in cases of special trains not in the time-book such
trains should be telegraphed by the speaking instrument,
and that any improvement that could be made in the tun-
nel ventilation would be most desirable."'
1-ne Coroner then made out his warrant for the committal
of Jones and Lancaster for manslaughter, and said he would
accept bail in their personal recognisance of £lOO each,
and two sureties of £5O each.
The requisite bail was then tendered and accepted, and
the proceedings terminated.

SACRILEGE AT SYDENHA3I CllURCFL—Yesterday
some men employed in clearing the snow from the roof of
the church of St. Bartholomew, Sydenham, incautiously
left a door of the building open, and some thieves entered,
carrying away Ow Altar cloth and various Qum article.