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The Late ‘Railway Accident,

OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION.

EVIDENC OF MESSRS, PAQUET ANP

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investivatien, into the late wld at the Railway office, on Saturday. We have space to-day for only a portion of the evidence, as follows :

Henry Horie.-—-Have been employed on the Prince Mdward Island Railway for about nine years, and for about five ‘years in the capacity of Road Master. Have been connected with railways for thirty-two yoars, chiefly on the Grand Trunk Railway the European and North American Railway, the Western Extension Railway, and the Caiais and Baring Rail- way, and also on the New Brunswick and Canada Railway.

l went over the portion of track where the accident occurred on the 25th instant, en Tuesday, the 17th of August, 1880. On that day | walked from York to Suffolk Stations, and passed the section men on the track, and ! also walked back over the same ground the same afternoon, and gave the Foreman of the Section orders to go to Robinson's curve (where accident occurred) and to line afew joints of rails. | also gave the Foroman erders to put in sleepers en this carve previous to the 17th of August, 188, and left a car load for this purpose, ai for the track in the Vicinity.

Three men, including the foreman, are allotted to cach section, they averaging about six miles in length. The section where the accident occurred is 5 9-10 miles in length. (Che same number of men have been employed all along on this and other sections as were employed formerly, and no reduction in the staff of track repairers has been mide.

I passed over the section (number seven) where the accident occurred, by train, on the morniny.of the 25th instant, and the track was then in good surface and align- ment, and ia good running order.

The accident occurred at the foot of two grades, an(| also at the east end of the curve. The curve is about 600 feet radius,

and about nine hundred feet long.

The ascet and descent of the grades are steep, and the road-bed has been raised and imprevyed within the last two years, thus being done on account of the change of

rade bein. so sudden tormerly.

4 train is more liable to leave the track at ov near the foot of a grade where two grades meet, because the cars come toge ther and ure apt to belifted, while on an ascending «rade the couplings between the cars are separated their full length and everything is tight.

* The engine did not leave the rails on the

day of the accident. There were two fiat ears loaded with coal, and a first-class car, and a covbined second-class and baggage car. There was also an iron smoke stack put loose on the two flat cars. The weight of the smoke stack was light, and in my opinion had nothing to do with causing the accident.

There were a number of sleepers on the section for necessary repairs on the day of the accident, ;

‘; consider that the accident was not caused by defective sleepers. Any sleeper known to be defective or such as would be dangerous, would be removed, and seme were on hand on the section to replace such.

I can state that due caution was exercised in ascertaining where sleepers were do- fective and in ordering their removal.

After a train leaves the track and runs over sleepers no accurate opinion can be formed of their previous cendition as they are cut to pieces generally. Several sleep- ers whic!: were put in track last year where the acci/ent occurred were all cut up.

i am unable te say what caused the acci- dent. | consider jit one of those which oc- gur on Railways and which cannot be ac- counted for. H. Hove.

H. ovr, (re-called.)—The trackmen have orders to walk over their section every day before the first train passes ; the sec- tion on which the accident occurred is walked twice a day, both morning and evening, as one of the men lives at the east end of the section and the other two at the west en H. Hocre.

Apam Tait.—Am_ sectien foreman of number 7, between Royalty Junction and about three hundred yards west of Suffolk Station. or about siz miles in length.

” Have been employed on the Prince Ed- ward I:land Hailway since October, 1875, as foreman.

The section was walked by one of my men, John McQnaid, the day of the acci- dent.

The section is walked over twice a day. McQuaid made no report to me that any sleeper needed removal where the accident occurre:l.

I have always given due care to all neces- sary work required on my section, and I have donea good deal of work on the curve this suyamer where the accident occurred.

I have two men with me for keeping the track in repair. One, Michael Berrigan, has been with me for about five years, and the other. John McQuaid, for gbout three years. Both are careful and yeliab]: men.

Phe accident ocourred just about the ehange of two grades, or at the foot of them, and near the east end of a curve.

This curve has always required a good"

deal of attention, and I always carefully examiied it when passing over it.

I went over the section by hand car two or throe days previous to the accident. The track was never in better condition than when [ last passed over it.

I had sleepers on my section to replace any that required renewal. I have renewed & number of sleepers on the curve where the accident occurred, this summer, and | have .one over the curve on two separate Occasions this summer, putting in new sleepers.

I was working about a mile and a half west of where the accident occurred and

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1 at once eXamined the track to ascertain

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bad anything to do with causing the aecci- dent, tor can i account tor its veccurrence, i,t he bend in the rail was short as if strack |>s ny stulden blow : before the aceident the rail was in good line. | have lifted the whole of the curve this summer and eauved it, and I have also lifted the whole of m4 section from Saffolk to within a quarter of a ee of York this summer. 1 have re- ceived about eleven hundred sleepers thi summer, up to the present time, xe ; When a ran off takes place, sleepers are and broken that their previous condition cannet be preperly known.

There are several sleepers in the track yet where the accident occurred, and some which were*put in the track two years ago are cut up as much as those which were put in when the track was first laid, and spikes in the new sleepers were broken off.

ApaM Tarr.

I do not think : runving the proper speed when it passed me about a quarter of a mile east of York Station. Apam Tart.

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ApaM Tair (re-called) the train was

Jonny McQvaw.—-Am trackman on See tion, No. 7. between Royalty Junction and Suffolk,

Have been employed in repairing track for over five years, and for upwards ef three years on section No, 7

I live at the East, or Suffolk end of the! Section. 1 walk daily over the section from Suffolk towards Royalty Junction, until j meet the foreman in the morning, and also return in the evening. I always make it my business to examine the condition of the track carefully, when passing over it, and | inform the foreman whenever | observe any work required to be done.

1 walked over the portion of track, where the accident occurred the same day it hap- pened, and saw nothing wrong, if I had 1 would have informed the foreman.

[I assisted in repairing track and putting in sleepers this suinmer en the curve where the accident happened.

There were sleepers on the section which were not in track.

The track was in proper guage before the accident eeccurred. The Engine did notleave the rails. L was on the ground about an hour after the accident.

The accident was not caused hy bad sleepers, and | have ne idea what caused it,

JoHn MoQvarp.

MarsHatt Paover.—I have heen em- ployed on the Prince Edward Island Rail- way for about four months, and am employ- ed as brakeman. os

[ was brakeman on No. 4. Train en the 25th August 1880, the day of the accident.

To the best of my judgment the train was running from twelve to fourteen or fifteen miles an hour.

The accident occurred, just about the ftvot of two grades, or & the point where they meet.

| applied the brakes before the train en tered on the enrve, and on the descending grade, and kept them applied until about where the grades meet when | let them go. Just as the brakes were loesened I felt a jar and looked ferward towards the Engine, and saw the front flat cars off the track. when | leoked I heard the Engine driver whistle for brakes, | then applied the brakes at once, and feeling the coach on whichd wasstanding toppling over, I jumped from the platform to the grand on the op- posite side of the track.

The forward flat car was still coupled to the Engine. but the front truck was off the track as wellas the hind ene. The frent part of the forward car was hung to the Engine by the coupling, aud the rear was aslant: this was when the train was breught to q stand.

The train consisted of feur cars, and it ran about its own length or perhaps six car lengths after it left the track, before it was brought up. ‘Che Engine did not leave the rails. Thesleepers were altogether broken up when the cars ran over them.

Iam unable to state what caused the car to leave the track, not having been long ona railway ; but [saw a number of sleepers cut up by the cars and imagined some: of them might have been bad. Marsnat Paquet.

BensaMIN Pexry—I have been employed upwards of four years on the Prince Edward Island Railway. 1 was first appointed brake- man, then baggageman, and have been em- ployed at various times within the past two years as conductor. | now occupy the posi- tion of conductor. I was in charge of No, 4 Train, which met with the accident on the 25th August, 1880. ‘The accident happened on a curve near the east end of it, and just before striking a reverse curve. 1 do not know what the grades are, but it was about the foot of the grade where the cars first went off,

There were four cars on the train. We were rusning about twelve miles an hour when the accident happened. We left Royalty Junction eleven minutes late.

The train ran about five car lengths after it left the track. The train went off on the eutside of the curve. :

I was in the baggage car when the train left the track. T'wo platferm cars with coal and a sheet iron smokestack en them lying loose, a baggage car and second-class combined, and a first-class car composed the train.

There were three passengers in the second- class apd about ten in the first-class car, Seven passengers were injured by the cars going over an embankment about four feet hight. Tie engine did not leave the rails. 1 went over with the car in which [ was, and when got out I went to the coach and helped the passengers out, and then started for Roy- alty Jnnction to give notice of the accident.

Wltere the cars went over the sleepers taney were all cut up. I cannot tell what caused the accident, although I examined the track after | got back from Royalty Junction, in about three-quarters of an hour.

ido not think the smoke stack had any connection with the accident being caused. [| have been frequently over the portion of road between Souris and Charlottetown, this sum- mer, and have never noticed anything wrong with the track where the accident happened.

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