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wan between four aim Ato minutes; I roiide at M.it-teawan, Dutchess County.JoMtph £lt;actrmm sworn : I won conductor of tho down cirrous yesterday; left Poughkeepsie yesterday at Cftv-als minutes post two o'clock; had got about half* through tho nrst car, collecting ticket*, and hoard the signal; wont to the baggage car; took the red flag; jumped off htforu tho tmin had stopped; gave tho red flag to the roar brake man, uuu told hint to run back and utop tho other train; hr that time tncro wore two other rod flogH oxhihit-ed towards PougbkeepBle; 1 noticed that my on-Lineer gavo the signal to backup; backed about half the length of a car; went fur ward and motif ned them to more forward; juit at that inptant tho way train caxno rushing into ua; from the time the tmin atopped till the collision took place.I ebould think it did not exceed two minutes; Kuch wttrhir an thbi I should not think there wae, room enough for a train to brake up between the out and my train; them would bo, when the track wa* not tn auoh condition as it ia at proven t; saw tho Poughkeepsie train before 1 heard the alarm from their engine—four coaches* baggago-car and two engines; It might have boon ona minute and a half before my train atnppod, to the time tho whistlo blew ; our Instruction is that any train following another A all keep at the diatonco of two milts apart, tad proceed with emotion; conduct ora give the englneora tho order to itop the train.MtCtrm SayU$9 sworn; Am conductor on tbo TTud-jtod Itiver flaflroad; was on the Rxnreee that left thia place at two o'clock and fifty-six minute* yesterday; we had gone about one and a half or two miles when 1 heard tbo signal to Atop; engineer gave aoroe fbreo fdgnala to atop ; ran some twenty-five rod* after we saw the signal; I was then in the baggage-car; got out when tho train atcppod ; then want to the rear of the train; saw Mr. ikwenon,with Lib rear brake man, about half-way between tho bridge and tho rock-cut; there wraanother flagman still further north, with his flag exhibited at the cut, fliiil going north ; It wan between three and mi minutes from iho Lime tho .tignal w»s given till the collision took place; Express stopped in about two minute**; was about eighty rods from tho cut to the plica wbtro the Lxprcsci stopped; tho Express could hi stopped easier than the Way, for the reason that tho Wny train w.is the lightest; it would have taken full two minuten to atop tbo l’ouchkoep-Pie train from tho tiioa of th# signal; it Is the duty of tho atation-ngcnt to start tbo trains; do not think the Poughkco p*ie train could ha%e biou «toppt:d‘fraDi tho place whero tho flagman gave his signal, to the Expreaa train; Mr. Martin la at at ion-ngent at Fougbkcepalci ; did not see him yesterday at the depot; Poughkoopflie train was running at about filtcen *r twonty miles per boar when it struck tho Express; tbo engineer on the Pough-klt; cjislo train is cousldorcd ono of the moat careful emnncera on tlto roacL M. HAYLE8.lltnry Ctmryp^ sworn—*Conductor on tho Poughkeepsie train that l*av©s hurts at two o'clock und forty-flvo minutes; left here yoHtcrday at three o'clock and one minute; nm positivo that it was eight minutes Irorn the time the Express left ycHtcrday before I started my train ; I heard no signal; do not alwoy* bear the signal; I use my diAciotion in reluronce to thu htarting of tho train ; do not loi»k to t La station agent for orders to atart njy tTidn. oxropt when thcro In something extraordinary ; 1 have lull couC Jonce in my cnginoor, and think liu la always very careful; it is not usual to Iiavo a uignai-cord from ono cnglno to the other; did uot sco the station agont fVnm tho timo tbo Ex-Srees left : have been couductor three years lastt pi ember. II UN U Y CAMP.» * ■ « a ^ ^ « ft « . n
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New York Daily Times
New York, New York, US
Fri, Jan 11, 1856
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