VICTORIAN RAILWAY DISASTER
THE BEAUFORT AFFAIR. CORONER'S FINDING. ByCa'bl*.—Pro** Association. —Copyright Received March 20, 5 p.M. Melbourne, March 20. In connection with the Beaufort railway disaster, the Coroner found that the accident was primarily due to the unskilfulness and carelessness of Driver Coward, or to an error in his' manipulation of the brakes' and that if Fitter Fewster had done his duty faithfully the accident would not have occurred, and Drivers G v onn and Coward, instead of insisting on the fitter doing his duty, had taken the risk of running the engine as it was. Contributory causes were the failure to properly repair the engine and the lorig period of fourteen hours during which Coward was on duty.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19100321.2.30
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 344, 21 March 1910, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
119VICTORIAN RAILWAY DISASTER Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 344, 21 March 1910, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in