SCOTCH TRAIN SMASH.
"AOCIDENT PREVENTABLE." NO DETONATORS USED. VERDICT OF THE JURY. By Telegraph——Copyright. London, September 19. The inquest in connection with the , Yorkshire railway disaster was con- ; eluded to-day. Nicholson, the driver of the second express, agreed that the regulations j afforded ample protection, if pro- { perly operated. 1 Whitley, the guard of the first train, admitted that according to the ] regulations he ought to have placed . detonators in the rear * immediately i the train stopped., If he had dons so, it might have prevented the acci- '■ dent. The foreman of the jury declared that indisputably it would have saved the accident. A verdict was returned that Driver Caudle, Fireman Fellows, aDd the locomotive inspector at Carlisle were guilty of culpable negligence. After arguments with the coroner, the jury was instructed to reconsider its verdict, and retired four times. It was tentatively suggested that there were extenuating circumstances in Caudle's case, while Fellows had been negligent in a lesser degree. Finally a verdict was returned that the deaths were accidental.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15412, 22 September 1913, Page 7
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