INQUEST ON THE VICTIMS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13824, 22 September 1913, Page 6

INQUEST ON THE VICTIMS.

OFFICIALS CULPABLY NEGLIGENT. London, Sept 19. At the inquest on the victims of the Aisgtl disaster the driver, Nicholson, agreed that the regulations afforded ample proboction if they were properly carried otit. Whitley, guard of the first tram, admitted that according to the regulations he ought to have placed a detonator in tho rear immediately the train stopped. If he had done so it mig&tt have prevented tho accident. The foroman of the jury declared thai indisputably it would have averted, the accident. A verdict was roturned that driver Causdell, fireman Fellows and the locomotive inspector at Carlisle were guilty of culpable negligence.