Yesterday week the coroner's jury on the bodies of the
thirty- three victims of the railway disaster at Abergele brought in a verdict of manslaughter against Richard Williams, the senior breaksman, and Robert Jones, the junior breaksinau, and cen- sured the conduct of the Llandulas stationmaster for gross dere- liction of duty in " non-observance of a rule of the company, which requires that all goods' trains must be shunted at stations on side ways at least ton minutes before a passenger train is due." In point of fact, as has been universally noticed, the breaksmen, if they had done their duty ever so properly, would only have delayed the collision about two minutes, when the train must have dashed into the petroleum trucks, instead of the petroleum trucks falling back on the train. The stationmaster censured by the coroner's jury has been already charged before a magis- trate with manslaughter.
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