LATEST TBLEGRIMS. -■ ■■ + [Peb Press Telegraph Agency.] CHBISTCHURCH. 12th February.
I At the inquest on the body of Stoddart, the fireman who died from injuries received by the late accident on the White Dliff branch line railway, the engine-driver said when nearing a ' curve, he f«lt the engine jump slightly as if there was an inequality in the rails, and put on full steam in hopes of getting over it. After going a chain round the curve the engine ran off and fell over the embankment. Warner, the engineer, said it was a mistake to put on full steam, is there was an incline at the curve, and the driver should have put on his break. The jury returned a verdict to the effect — -that Stoddart's death had been caused by the engine-driver not putting on the break when descending the incline.
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Evening Post, Volume XIII, Issue 37, 14 February 1876, Page 2
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141LATEST TBLEGRIMS.-■ ■■ + [Peb Press Telegraph Agency.] CHBISTCHURCH. 12th February. Evening Post, Volume XIII, Issue 37, 14 February 1876, Page 2
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