Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-21
WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE.
Coroner's Inquest into the Spuyten Duy-
vii Disaster.

vii Disaster.
The inquest in the Spuyten Duyvil disaster
was continued to-day. Edmund Stafford, en-.
ginser of the first locomotive of the Albany
train testified the train stopped three or four
times between Albany and Spuyten Duyvil sta
ton and that there was nothing the matter
| with the air brakes more than ordinary. Until
the stoppage at Spuyten Duyvil cut there was
no reason for application of the brakes and
they should not have been applied. The acct
dent would not have occurred if the brakes
had not been tempered with. The second en-.
gineer had control of the air brakes. They had
stopped about seven minutes the crash then
came and is broke the draw bar between
the first and second engines Henry D. Welsh,
bartender at Kilcullen's hotel, testified he saw
the express standing on the track and brake
man standing near the rear of the train.
When the Tarrytown down train was heard he
saw the brakeman run back about 100 feet,
signaling as he went. If the brakeman had
started when witness first saw him he could
have got to the cut before the Tarrytown
train emerged. When witness saw the brake
man first he was not more than three feet from
his car, and looked as though he was ready to
jump on at any moment. The brakeman had
been standing for five minutes beside his car
before running back.
A. Fl. Cattlin, who has charge of the air
brake department of the Hudson River rail-
road, said he examined the brakes of the AL
bany train when it come in, and found them
all right, and that the train must have been
stopped by some person pulling the valve
rope.
A. Buchanan, engineer on the second loco
motive attached to the Albany train, said he
had seventy five pounds Of air on, and it fell to
forty pounds when the train stopped, which
showed him somebody had suddenly applied
the air brakes. No employee on the train
would have applied the brakes. Both engines
on the train had automatic air brakes as
had also the Tarrytown train.
Deacon W. W. Ellis, East Providence, r. l.,
of the Congregational church, who had his
hand cut with glass on Sunday, the 18th inst,
while opening bottle of communion wine,
has been seized with lockjaw and his life is
despaired Of.
The Wisconsin state grange adjourned yes
terday to meet at Madison, Wis, the second
Tuesday in December.
John Pinnell, artist, London, Eng, is dead.
Seventeen new cases of small pox in Pitts
burg and thirteen in Allegheny City were re-
ported to the board OF health yesterday.
The creditors of A. & N. Sprague estate,
representing nearly $5,G00,000 of Indebtedness,
have telegraphed their desire to become men,
bers of the proposed organization of creditors
to take the property at a sum not less than
$26,0OO,0 600. The time closed last night for
joining the scheme.
The Relief society of Nashville, Tenn,
yesterday issued provisions to nearly 600 fami-
lies driven by backwater from their homes. 1t
is still raining at 11:2O this evening.
E. r. Cannon, conductor on the Little
Miami, Ohio, road for thirty years, and secre-
tary of the Railroad Conductors Life associa-
ton OF the United States and Canada, died
yesterday, aged 81.