The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-18
HE CENTRAL RAILROAD DIsAsTEn-yEF

DICT CENSURING THE COMPANY.
Additional testimony was taken before tie Coo
ner's inquest at Utica, on Friday. w. A. I've =,
track-master on the road, denies that the v rg-i
Crandall showed him rotten chips from lie BE
timbers, but arrives at the conclusion, s;~ce
breakage, that the bridge not safe Ie syTc'-G
positively however, to the following, al import
admission:
/ frequently bore timbers to test their scurdrcss
can juoge sometimes by striking with hammer;
the timber was green when put in; thin; can
distinguish white elm from bastard, when - IS
green am certain that this was white elm, grown
on low land.
The witness was here shown some pieces of tim
Der taken by the Jury from the broken bridge.
Question-What kind of timber do YOU call that?
AnS,cer-White lowland elm.
Cross-eramined-It does not require much skill to
detect lowland from upland elm, from water elm;
water elm is never used on the road; lowland elm
generally begins to rot in the centre the outside
tains its strength while the inside decays.
Major Ienas Priest sworn and testified reside at
Little Falls; am ssisantSuperintenden on the New
York Central; on the Utica accommodation
going West on the morning of the 11th was sitting
on the seat of the only passenger coach; we
had eight or nine freight cars; l had risen to
watch the wood-tran that had gone on before; saw
it was some distance ahead and sat down again,
when was thrown from my seat by powerful jar;
fastened to get out of the cars, and the passen
gercars of the express train piled in the creek and
the freight cars thrown off in confusion; found the
north truss of the bridge carried to the north the
middle truss also and both broken; the south truss
was pressed to the south; the bottom cord of the
middle truss has bad dry rot towards the west end;
can't say whether the upper cord was decayed or
not; did not notice it much; the bottom cord of
the north truss lay in the water; the end in
sight showed signs of decay; showed it off to
get it out of the way; there was dry rot in about
quarter or Its dlameter a man by boring could
have told the middle cord was unsound; we some
times bore timbers for this purpose, when we
suspect tlmbers are rotten, we test by ham,
mer, and if engineers complain they are weak
OutSIdn WI
in; the timbers in question were bought for
pure white elm; tho north ond is white elm; the
centre cord is bastard white em and badly decayed;
from examination of the bridge since broken; it
seems that it is not safe; had kno1n iohdt kno,u
no~, IshoRd not hare left There; thought the bridge
would hold up two engines and should not be afraid
to have been upon one of them knowing what
| tnow now should not think the bridge would
nod two engines passing at the same time in differ
| ent directions with load trains; knowing what
know now, think they would have broken the
Drldge, in such bridge, depend on the cords to
hold the braces, and on the braces to sustain the
bridges II the bolts and braces are good, we con-
slider the bridge safe.
The Utica Telegraph says that Mr.. Mack, Zone of
| the wounded at the McGregor House, states that
he has been in this country 10 years. and has travel
ed much on the Railroad and never met with an ac-
cldent before, and he had taken the Central Railroad
Jor gdde.onat security an Transporting has family the
| road having such good reputation in Ohio and
| Indiana for being secure and safe.
| BY TELEGRAPH
Utica, N. Y, May 15.-The Coroner's Jury, in
the case of the late frghtn accident on the Central
Railroad at Sauquoit Greek, have agreed on their
verdict The feeling of the Jurors is understood to
have been unanimous at once
The verdict is: ''We find that the persons whose
BODIES have been viewed by US, to their deaths
by the giving way of the bridge of the New York
Central Railroad, crossing the Sauquoit Creek, in
the town of Whitestown, Oneida county, on the
morning of the 18th of May, and that they were
all passengers by the Cincinnati Express Train,
coming east. The deaths were caused by the in
security of the BRIDGE owing to the same being de-
cayed and rotten. A portion of the bridge was
constructed of inferior timber, the same being
bastard elm. We find the deaths mere caused bv cu2
po0te neglect on the part Of the Central Railroad Com
pony an not causing this bridge to be property &C.
damned.