. Reports of the commissioners appointed to inquire into a series of accidents and detentions on the Great Western railway, Canada West . therail, having thereupon, cut into and indented some, and broken others of theties; should say the car had been dragged from the place where it first left therail to the spot where it was upset and crushed, at least three hundred the engine driver say that on discovering that he had struck the horse hehad whistled and had applied the brakes. Deponent could not understand howwith the brakes applied and the drag of the car in addition, the train s
. Reports of the commissioners appointed to inquire into a series of accidents and detentions on the Great Western railway, Canada West . therail, having thereupon, cut into and indented some, and broken others of theties; should say the car had been dragged from the place where it first left therail to the spot where it was upset and crushed, at least three hundred the engine driver say that on discovering that he had struck the horse hehad whistled and had applied the brakes. Deponent could not understand howwith the brakes applied and the drag of the car in addition, the train shouldhave proceed so far without being brought to a stop. The place where the horsewas first struck was about half a mile from the Bridge over the We Hand Canalat Thorold. The orders and rules of the Company at that time prescribed thatthe Canal Bridge should be approached with great caution, and that the trainshould be made to run slow before reaching it. Deponent has no distinct recol-lection whether the night was light or dark. CHARLES F. WOODWARD. Sworn before us, at St. Catharine, 7th Dec. F. Coffin,M. C. Ill DETENTION AT BAPTISTE CREEK, AND FATAL CONSEQUENCES, July 2, 1844. See Evidence of C. J. Brydges, Esquire, at Baptiste Creek accident. Statement of ALEXANDER BARTLETT, Coroner, Windsor, Nov. 28, 1854. Alexander Bartlett, of the Village of Windsor, in the County of Essex,gentleman, one of the Coroners of said County, deposeth and saith : that on thethird day of July last, an Inquest was held by the Deponent on the dody of fourNorwegians Emigrants brought with other Emigrants by the cars of the GreatWestern Railway to Windsor, on the second day of the said month of July, andI now produce the evidence taken before me on that occasion, marked A 13 which was to the best of my judgment correctly taken. I also produce the verdictof the Jury, rendered on the said Inquest marked A 14. On the seventeenth ofAugust last, a child about fourteen years of age,
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