AISGILL DISASTER.
BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRY. APPLIANCES NOT EFFECTIVE. (Received September 16, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, s Sept. 15. The Board of Trade inquiry regarding the train disaster at Aisgill was resumed. ' Several passengers gave evidence as to groping in the dark, seeking for tools. They declaimed that the rescue work, would have been much more effective if there had been more appliances and better supervision. Brander, one of the engineers, said he saw only one extinguisher, which somebody was squirting at Sir Arthur Douglas' head. Mr Granet admitted that a portion of the coal used l on the night of the accident was too small, and had not been properly screened, Jrat the iprice paid for it was higher than for South Yorkshire coal, which was regarded; as the best. Granet added that the Midland Company had, since the Ha-, wes disaster, been steadily installing throughout its system an apparatus for correcting acts of forgetfulraess on the part of its servants.
Major Pringle, of the Board of Trade, agreed' that the company had been. ..carrying out the spirit of the recommendations made by the Board.
* FURTHER EVIDENCE
MANY IMPROVEMENTS MADE. (Received Last Night, 10.35 o'clock.) LONDON, Sept. 16. , Mr Granet stated that mechanical were installed at 763 ? places to prevent' signalmen from idwering signals while another train was in his section. The directors had set aside £IOO,OOO as a first instalment towards installing the device at 2000 selected signal boxes, where the pes'sibility of human error was iv most likely. Floors in the new carriages were being laid with asbestos, and improvements were being added, to reduce-the risk of telescoping. .Col-) lision buffers and emergency windows were also being introduced. A consensus of opinion amongst rauwayraen favoured ;gas illumination in the carriages. The directors had decided against electricity, and during thirty-two. years there Were only eight accidents in which caused the fire.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 September 1913, Page 5
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312AISGILL DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 September 1913, Page 5
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