BEAUFORT RAILWAY SMASH.
CAUSE OF THE DISASTER. INCOMPETENCE AND NEGLECT MELBOURNE, March 20. The inquiry into the railway disaster at Beaufort has concluded. Early on the morning of February 5, a goods train driven by two engines crashed into a dead end there. A. Coward and E. F. Russel, driver and fireman respectively of tho second engine, and T. H. Gronn, driver of the first engine, were killed, and T. 11. Gronn, driver of the first engine, was seriously hurt. The Coroner found that the "accident was primarily due to the unskilfulness and carelessness of Driver Coward, or to an error in his manipulation of the brakes, and that if Fitter Fewster had done his duty faithfully the accident would not have occurred. Drivers Gronn and Coward, instead of insisting on the fitter doing his duty, had taken a risk in running the engine as it was. Contributory causes were the failure to property repair the engine, and the long period of 14 hours for which Coward was on duty.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 68, 21 March 1910, Page 5
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170BEAUFORT RAILWAY SMASH. Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 68, 21 March 1910, Page 5
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