. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 7851b., consequently, if the pipe was not strapped down, it is very evident that the elbow pipe would be lifted out of its socket in the manner the acci- dent is represented to have occuired. There appears to be some astonishment exhibited by all paities at the inquest at the bead being cut away and filed, but not a word was said about the gland, if the latter was in one piece it is evident that ihe bead was cut away to get the gland on the pipe, but if the gland had been mad
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 7851b., consequently, if the pipe was not strapped down, it is very evident that the elbow pipe would be lifted out of its socket in the manner the acci- dent is represented to have occuired. There appears to be some astonishment exhibited by all paities at the inquest at the bead being cut away and filed, but not a word was said about the gland, if the latter was in one piece it is evident that ihe bead was cut away to get the gland on the pipe, but if the gland had been made with two hemicircles and a ring under, also in two pieces, and placed so as to break joint, it might then have been put on without the bead being cut away ; if the annexed drawing be a correct view, of which we have no doubt, it is very evident that the gland was in one piece, and consequently it accounts for the chipping away of the bead on the end of the pipe. It is also stated in tlie evidence that the spigot and faucet joint is necessary to allow for expansion of the metal; for this purpose i to | of an inch in a pipe 30 feet long, would be ample play, and in a vertical pipe 10 feet long .} of an inch; but the principal necessity of such joints is to avoid derangement when the \ease\ taltes ground; in such case iron cement joints, as recommended by one of the witnesses, would give way and be perfectly useless. We, therefore, under all the circumstances, cannot see any objection to the socket or spigot and faucet joint, provided it be made with a bead on the end of the pipe, and a proper gland. To the de- fect of the latter do we attribute the awfid accident ; having offered these observations, we shall now proceed to quote the evidence given before the coroner, Mr. Baker, at the inquest held upon the bodies of the sufferers. THE INQUEST. Mr. G. Low, an engineer on board of the vessel at the time of the accident, stated that she had two engines worked with two cranks, with
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