Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-24

We expect to show" Attorney Bend
helm said. that an order was issued to
the men to put those people away"
The witness said he saw Capt. Mathews
as If In the act o. striking some one. He
did not know whether he struck any one
or not.
The police drove almost all of the rail-
road employees away from the engine. the
witness stated. He was telling Belshaw
who had assisted in bringing the jacks.
what to do to get the second jack in action
when he was told to get out. Men were
attempting to use timber in moving the cab
until the policemen drove them away.
Distance Cab Was Raised.
what distance was the cab raised by the
hydraulic screw to release one leg?" MT
Moffatt was asked
Three or four inches" was the reply.
Did that exhaust the capacity of the
screw?'
mo, SIR"
1t was then brought out that the jack was
about eighteen inches long. and thus that
distance was required in order to allow the
Jack to be put into use. Witness thought.
however. that there was sufficient sDace
between the ground and the cab, where the
engineers leg was caught. to allow it to be
| used. had there been no interference
-AGofpH n sp. nee. fore of the South
ern railway yards. was called as the next
witness. and he said he reached the wreck
two minutes after it occurred. 1t was add
ed that Engineer Murphy was caught by
| the eit-iiS CdD. btiO" tEe Wl.O0W.
Mr. Spence said he was put out" three
times by Lieut.. Mulhall. He stated that
! he was expected to be around when wrecks
occurred within his territory. In reference
| to Mr.. Moffatt's knowledge of jacks he
| said that he knew that Mr. Moffatt was
| employed as an oiier and used jacks in his
| work.
Mr.. Spence has been in charge of yards
| where jacks are used daily for sixteen
years, he said and the lotion Jacks had
been use to lift one wheel a car. He
| said that in his judgment one jack of 15-
| tons ca pacitY would have been sufficient to
| raise the cab enough to release Engineer
Murphy. Using a lotion jack and 7-ten
| jack. he said, either the cab would be torn
from the engine. its parts bent the en-
! CINE lifted entirely, so that the engineer
| could have been released.
| 1t was added by the witness that he told
! Lieut.. Mulhall that he was foreman of
yards of the Southern railway. but was told
las good railway man to stand back as
| an example for the others.
| Continuing. the witness said he saw Capt.
Mathews strike at man. but be did not
| know whether the blow hit the man or not.
| When the derrick took hold of the en-
| CINE. to release the engineer. he said, the
cab was torn from the boiler. This state
| ment was made in connection with one
| that the jacks would tear the cab off be-
| fore they would raise the engine itself.
| Mr.. Spence stated that when he was put
! out by Lieut. Mulhall he was holding the
| instruments of the physician attending the
1
| Matthews in the crowd. he added. after be-
| ing put back. Capt. Matthews invited him
| to join some railway men near the engine.
Flagman Witness.
H. T. Ireland. fagman at the railway
| crossing where the accident occurred. was
| the first witness called after recess this af-
| ternoon He went after the jacks with
! other railroad men, and he put jack in
| place under the cab. That jack was put
against the cab, below the windows and to
the rear.
after you placed the jack in place, what
happened?' the witness was asked THE
| police grabbed me and showed me out into
| the mud" was the reply. The witness said
that he tried to get back. to help out. but
was showed back again and kept back.
! 1t was added by the witness that he
| noted Capt. Matthews ordering his men
! to keep the people back. He also said
| that he heard Mr.. Moffatt tell Lieut.. Null
| hall that he did not think it was right to
put him back when he was doing the
| proper thing to rescue the engineer.
| Lieut.. Mulhall said that he could operate
| the wreck train good as any man on the
| Pennsylvania railroad system the witness
| went on to say. The remark was made
| when, in answer to the claim of Mr.. Moi
! fatt that he could release the engineer with
| the Jack Lieut.. Mulhall asserted that a
| wrecking derrick was necessary.
| The witness said he was working with
| the lack and had his hand on 1t when the
officer showed him back. He was In a kneei-
| ing position when he was thus showed out
| by the policeman he declared.