Transcribed by Emily Smith. Geo. The Northern News With Which Are Amalgamated The HALTWHISTLE and ALSTON NEWS and NORTH CUMBERLAND REFORMER No. 514 —Vol. XI. Saturday, January 6, 1900 ----- RAILWAY SERVANTS AND THEIR RULES. At Guy's Hospital, London, on Monday, an inquest was held on Alfred William GILES, 28; William DRAPER, 60; and Fernand Henri ARTS, 54; who were killed with three other in the railway collision at Wivelsfield Station, on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Line, on Saturday week, between the Newhaven boat train and the Brighton Pullman express. Alfred WESTLAKE, driver of the Pullman express, said there was no truth in the suggestion that he was going 60 miles an hour. In a sudden fog he would stop, but this fog had been on two hours, and any driver would depend on fog signals. Richard EDWARDS, the signalman at Keymer Junction box, deposed that he had read the rule respecting the order to put detonators on the line if the fogmen were not out, but did not understand the rule meant "by his box." He thought it meant the other side of the distant signal. The jury found that the collision was an accident, partly due to the driver, WESTLAKE, not obeying his rules, but they did not consider him guilty of gross negligence. They considered that EDWARDS ought to have put detonators on the line, but did not do so through ignorance of the proper meaning of the rule. They considered there should be periodical examinations of railway servants to ascertain their knowledge of the rules. -- Emily Smith