Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1873-09-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

RRO'V EXPLOSION. ' \ '1971/ INQUP,S r. we recorded last week. the inuitest on the four percom • !tilled by the exolosian of a bailer at the lin-nevem 'of Mr Elliott an I Sons, V. t —l‘,J Jarrow, nn w4m,,,,,,k ly, was held at the Alkali Inn, beim the 0„,„flor, x r. .1. M. Favell. The jars' viewed the body of rf„. boy Henry Wears, ant examined the scene of Om explosion. The Coroner, in summing up the evidence adduced, sail tie. " had clear evidence that at 'he time the boirer exploded there was sufficient a water in ft. Ins experience taught him that a ogfreatprompeanr i a y ltiormile'ea„tt.' explode owiag to a w n. He did not say this Ns for the purpose' of ii advocating on behalf of insurance companiitt; it he did feel very strongly Ord if boilers wl:9* eipecttel —he (lid not mean inspected for the tremosie,of finding out if they could rtee on a little with repaii *. hot inspected ir People whnee duty it was ro'flarel ranit —(hear, hear)—so 7,,., marry boiler explosionw w' not not occurr. lie dul not see that there had; heels a primer inspection in this ease. There weer no )f that it was ever say whether, upon the evidence, t,he boiler had been tested with a hammer, apd ,was for the jury to properly inspected. The jierv, after deliberating in tar iyate for about twen,y mittntes. returnerrthe fancying verdict i— " That Heavy Wears and others "eye killed by au explosion on the 10th inst., at the Hive -Trott Works, East Jarrow, caused by thsimiter be-in ; worn ant and unfit for *se ; and we are of opinion that tbet boiler has not been properly ituipectint"  RAILWAY A=DENTS fIIIB7TA Parliamentary return hse; been :aimed if all accidents which have been reported to the Boar I of Trade by the several railway companies in the United Kingdom as having occurred on their lines during the year ended 31st December, rtin2: The return is the first yrfech has bean prepared' foe an entire period of twelve months under the Regulation of Railways Act, 1871. The total number cf periers killed during the year, according to-thin returo, was 1,145, and 3.038 were iejnred. The-total member if passengers killed was 127: —24 "from causes. beyond their own control." and 103 "-from theirowu. misconduct or want of amnion." The total number of passengers injuredi was 1,462, of whom•l;24w-received their injuries from causes beyond their own. contrcl, and 215 fronrtheir own mismondact or want of caution. The number of railway,' servants- returned as killed under the-former head iteefi and under the latter 568; the injured in these two elassersre 376 and 1.019 respectively. Seventy pe reons were killed and 23 injured while passing ovarrailways atlevel crossings. rnder the head of " trespassers and suicides," 258 are reported as killed and 107 in, it:wed ; and "miscellaneous," not included in any of the preceding classes, 386 killed and 18,1iejared. A list is also given of thewomber of accidents unattended with loss of life et personal injnry. It extends over 32 pages of the Blue-book, bet no summary is appended. It are,ears from man of the tables in the book that the total number of passengers killed on railways from causes beyond' their own • control from 1862 to 1872 was 271. In an introductory note it is stated that these returns are made by the companies themselves, and " ttna great discrepancies between the number of accidents returned by the various companies lead to a doubt whether they all make their return with equal care and completeness."