The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-27

led fyvn lie casisy, a. vas evidfm trom te p,o NRpero
ARE Of he scatv yoing iA sn ~ there had beaa con-
qast supply a cdter passing hsosgh he casing and foe
indlao he bSitr he accdsnt could not hare Np~nd and
there are also t,co stand pipes ID The a.r casting aehch,
left open ,eould hare prevented L. saved myself irors
being scaded to death by throwing myself down on tho
stoke hole, and covering my face with my hands knew
Boyd, who soker Of that watch; knew him very
WELL also knew Richards and Adams, out nave dol seeb
them since they have been dead.
Mr. Slater next called and examined by the CNro-
ner-I am q surgeon, and in conjunction with DR. wat
son. had Joint medical superintendent Of the Great East
ern about six o'clock Friday evening we we're stanon
together abat the after house on deck, which ered
inc smoking saloon; while standing there we heard u
great noise, as OF explosion and We mmedntoly ran
forward and superintendent the conveyance Of the injured
parties 70 the dspensary went down into the saloon,
but did not remain there more than minute there
IN AL Twelve or thirteen brought into the hospital, i've
been removed from the ship TO the Armary here slghs
cases, and the others very trillng injuries;
ship or returned to their duty; John Boyd, fireman,
was first under our when brought up be was suffer
ing from very severe seads all over the body from head to
loot saw him Immediately after the accident and con
tinued to attend him to the time Of his DEATH the cause
Of death was great shock to the whole system and gene
raj collapse, consequence OF scaldng reaction never
taking place; came shore with the dead bodies The
witness also described the deaths Of the other persons %
attributable TO scads The Of those dead are John
Boyd Michael Mackeb0y Michael Malone Robert Adams
and John Edwards in all the the Of death was
scarcely apy adherence IN the INJURIES they received and
none Of them rallied. Boyd died the morning anc
Mackeboy on the evening Of the 10TH Adams on the
ing of the llth and Edwards this morning; IDENTITY
ali the bodies.
Dr. Watson called, and corrobora.ed every
respect the evidence of Mr. Slater The vessel
strong that Notwithstanding the violence Of cxplo
had no effect whatever upon the motion Of the vessel
and had occurred in any other steam vessel must have
greatly injured If not sunk it.
Mr. r. p. Brereton was then called and examined He
sad:-I am chief Il ~ Bruners engineering staff; I
boxes and 10y turned round r' when saw the
foremost fad heave ~ Aom the deck; lcaped up as
IL were aboveye Assk, and shower Of splnters and
broken plate es began falling all around hurried the
lady with whom was convcrsng, aft assured her there
was no danger and told her 70 hold her bead down. 50
medatey went forward to see what was the matter;
found the funnel lying on the deck broken in two parts
looking down into the hole out Of which steam and
smoke was escaping, heard men crying out, helpp'
and waterp' good many of the passengers and crew
were round there; the rehose was Immediately laid
in there should be any fire below, and TO supply
the water the men down below were calling out f0r
as soon as the steam had cleared away little, tbs
captain and several Of the went down with ropes
round them and began bring up the wounded as soon
as it was ascertaned that there was Gre board
the people reassured and the ship proceeded
COURSE never having, in fact stopped ALL soon ae
the confusion over, went and examined the broken
funnel lying on deck; on the following morning il
desired by the chairman Of the company that
the engineers board should examine the place where
the explosion took place. form judgment as
to the cause Of the explosion Mr. Mcconnell locomotive
engineer of the Northwestern Railway-a passenger-Mr
Scott Russell Mr. Smith, the inventor Of the screw pro-
polor and Mr. Smith, engineer and director OF the Ar
zdn Engineer newspaper Mr. Bate the representative OF
the firm of Bolton Watts the engineers depart
had an opportunity Of seeing the construction of
the funnel and its water casing, which we could
not have if the accident had not happened.
because the covering round the funnel was blown
away by the explosion; the main funnel exposed,
because all the boarding round was blown away
there was nothing unusual in the funnel ITSELF but 9TH
er engines there is not generally water jacket;
could not tell before the boarding blown away what
caused the explosion but this at led what
was the cvse of the explosion, without any drawings
other explanation; ascertained that the flannel
double for bout forty feet in length had not seen inc
Our
ofce there was six inch space between the funnel pro
per and the outer room or jacket all round the diameter
OF The inner cylinder and that oil the o1r
feet the explosion took place halfway down. the
casing found in collapsed state, the casing
upper half deck; the object Of this ca
sing is 70 prevent cold water being led to-
sea '1 o mere was an pro-
place in this water Jacket this apparatus OF u
stand pipe which stands up TO nearly the level OF the
top OF the funnel and connected with The Jacket
the standppe, in fact constitutes safety valve by open
ing at the top as soon as the steam reaches certain pres
sure, the water runs out the top Of the s,aBdppe and
his governs the pressure that required inside the case
after had the wreck, and taken oil thesD
ton could get learnt that water bad been
sent direct to the boiler being the direct course
the donkey engine not working very well the donkey
Dgne drove the pump and had some difficulty in dong
its work; the consequence was, that the donkey engine
ent the cold water direct to the boiler two Of the don
key engines we're disabled and it was all they could do
keep the boiler supplied with water, which
the shutting of the circutous through lack
explosion ought to have had The stand
what was in operation in the standpipe there found
what might be termed lip or plug passing
through the bottom OF it capable Of being trnei and We
found that had been shut Off leaving whatever
and the two vents being shut up the cause
Of the &C :dent; u either Of them had been IN operc,ion
that u.s. nc iCdter had been supplied through casing o.
the tap had been turned, the explosion could not haze hap
peaed the steam must haze gone 9eeraing and no on.
seems TO kaoo hon. ohen that cock be shut two or
three days before the ship started something required
70 be done to it; the standppe Short and the
water ran over too soon. and it was Heightened. mn
therefore. hava hnon
Is presumed that workman must haze turned the cock
for some purpose Of his oen and forget to turn back or.
osdd TO DO So cannot be turned by the hand but re-
quires an instrument called the spanner.
BY the Jnry-There was no means Of discovering that
By the CoronerThe tap ought always have remained
open and the cock in point Of fact only there for
the purpose Of testing the strength OF the casing
BY the Jury- the donkey engines had acted r,gh, the
vcssei might have gone TO Australia and back without
being discovered il impossible to say which Of the two
causes was really the occasion Of the explosion cannot
say mat the cock question would require any one 10 at
tend it It is fxture and was exactly like cork screwed
Who was the engineer in charge at the timer
Mr. Brereton-I cannot say that there any engineer
in charge OF that cock; Mr. Dixon was the engineer who
was responsible for the action of the paddle engines n
was impossible for anybody TO know the internal constrno
ton of the casng did not occur to ANYBODY 10 ascer
tain that that cock was open before starting
BY Mr. leverson-You can stop safety valve in any
engine before this was finished somebody had cleaned
"; once finished and boxed up would have been no
ones duty TO look to it, would have been assumed that
gneer would you, before starting think necessary to
examine every part Of the machinery?
Mitness-t would not have occurred to 10 look to
ths was like locking door and, when once fnsned
should not have looked at it, would be boxed up regn
ary; no one knows why he did it, the had 70 remove
the casing to lengthen the standpike; s mpossbJe
could be closed by the accident and, indeed if il had
taken place. ~ law
AT the conclusion Of Mr. Breretons evidence tho ;rv
proceeded to Portland Bay to Wow the ship which Is wing
adjourned until Saturday next. ~ S
THE ADJOURNED INQUEST
lfrom the correspondence of the London Poetl
WEYMOUTH, Sept IA, 1859
To-day at two O'Clock the adjourned INQUIRY into tho
cause Of this melanchoydisaster was resumed before NJ
Henry Locke the Coroner for Dorset the Town Hall,
weymouth The investigation appeared to excite NO crea
amount Of interest," and the Court was almost esan,
throughout the entire proceedings. -f@
Mr. John Scott Russell, in compliance with wish ex