The Tay Bridge Disaster.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3473, 11 February 1880, Page 2

The Tay Bridge Disaster.

Sir TLos. Birch and other eminent engineers who have examined the scene of the accident, attribute it to one or two of the end carriages of the train being bl swn off the rails, in the storm, and thus thrown against the lattice •work of the bridge. It is now believed that the total number of those in the train at the time of the disaster did not exceed 90, and that the loss was at first exaggerated. Among the passengers were the following persons:—Ex Councillor David Jobson, of Dundee; James Gordon, corn merchant, Dundee, residing at Newport with his wife and two daughters; William Brown, -junr., salt merchant, Dundee, who, with wife, were returning from their honeymoon; Mrs Meldrum, of Dundee, who leaves six children; James Duncan, ship carpenter, from Edinburgh ; .Robert Watson, David I Watson, and Bobert Watson—-father and two sons, wfio were returning from Cupar, Fife ; Eobert Milne, of Dundee; David Scott, goods guard; James Brimner, wine merchant, Dundee; • .Robert Syme, clerk to the Royal Hotel, Dundee ; Wm. MucDonald,, sawmiller, Dundee; David Macdonald and Thomas Annand, Dundee; Wm. Hobertson, Alexander !Robertson, brothers, belonging to Abernethy, and employed in the Dundee gasworks; Peter G. Salmond, blacksmith, Dundee; Mrs Mann, residing at Forfar, and her grand daughter Lizzie Brown; David Graham, Dalmtiry Sessional. School, Stirling ; John Hamilton, grocer, Dundee.-; A son of Mr A. J. Murdpck, agent for the Dundee Plate Glass Insurance Association; and Mr James Baxter, builder, Dundee, wore both expected as passengers by the train.