The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-06
LCITY .INTELLI NOE
[For Addutonal a. Irlelaaenee see EiahN Paae.l

RAILROAD DIsAsTER-THE CoRoNER's
| INoUEsT.- Yesterday afternoon Coroner Taylor
| held an inquest in the case of Samuel Ftine.
trick, engineer' ana Robert lingerman, fire
road on Wednesday morning at an early hour.
| Lewis FTineirick was sworn, and deposed he was
the son OF the deceased; saw him after the acct
dent about p NJ; he asked him how 1t han.
pened, and he replied, "when he had went down
with the line train he said to the switchman be
sure and have the switch right, and that he
would not come up until he had seen the
signals" when lie came up he had almost stopped
the train, when he got the signal from the
switch-telder TO come on; he did so at rate
OF only three miles per hour; in the after.
noon he had no hopes of living, and repeated
several times about the sWitCh-tender; he died
about 26 minutes of 8.
Hugh Kearney teshRed-fIe was a regular
swttch-tender between the bridge and Haverford
street; had been there over over two years; had
been on duty on Monday night; was off duty on
| Tuesday night, having given notice to the Off
GERS OF the road; was not acquainted with the
man substituted, but that he boarded at Mr..
Glass; his name was Young, and he had never
occupied that switch before; Mr.. PaXson, the
Superintendent, had furnished the temporary
switch-tender; the marks in the tie show dis
tinctly that the switch was out of place at the
time of the accident.
John Parker declared he was a conductor on
that train for several months; the engineers
looks to the signals was not .on the line train
that night; after the mails had been arranged
that night told the engineer all was right, to go
ahead; the engineer ran very slowly, about four
miles an hour; heard the signal down brakes
and ran to the brakes; in about half a minute
the crash came; saw Young after jumping off
the car, and he appeared TO be coming from the
swtch-house; the switch tender said, MY God
whatis this 2" gave him no answer; did not ex-
anime the switch; do not think he had any
signal lamp in his hand, though he might have
given the signals, and then laid down his lamp;
Young had not, TO his knowledge, been switch.
man before; he had been day assistant to
Mr.. PaXson, to see the numbers of the
cars and the tracks on which they were;
Robert j. Donnelly was hind-brakesman on that
train; had been so for one year; was on the
sleeping car at the time of the accident; had no
confidence in the temporary swltch-tender, an
accident having happened before when he was
on duty; had heard one of the men cau him
''sleepy," and felt there was danger that night;
heard the whistle down brakes" knew the
engine had got off the track; the engineer was
| careful and trustworthy: saw Young when the
train was off the track, and he was then about
twenty feet from the switch-hOuse; he spoke of
giving himself up to the authorities; believe he
said the switch "hew," or left the track while the
train was passing; don't think that the switch
could have moved If it had been set right
Joseph SiXte declared the engineer after the
accident, stated that he had had the signal ''all
right" and had went on; Young said ''tEe
switch few;' Young was too slow and stupifed
in his opinion.
John Richards testified that he knew Young
for five or SIX months; had heard of him acting
as switch tender at Thirty-hth street before;
cautioned Young that night going up that he
expected signal for the passenger train before
he could 60 ahead. ...
James Mccullough declared that he had
known Young, employed as brakesman, be-
fore the war, and on his return from the service
he was again employed on railroads; always
had to keep an eye on him that he should not
go to sleep; the full name of the man is Villa Ia
q. Young.
The further hearing was postponed until
Saturday morning at IL o'clock, when other
witnesses will be examined.