HC Deb 03 March 1898 vol 54 c462
CAPTAIN DONELAN

On behalf of the men of Cork County, West, I beg to ask the President, of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been directed to the fatal accident at Dunmanway Station, on the Cork, Bandon, and South Coast Railway, whereby John Spieven lost his life; and will he inquire what experience Spieven, who was recently employed to take the place of one of the men on strike, had in the sort of work in which he was engaged?

THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. C. T. RITCHIE,) Croydon

My attention was directed to this acident, and I have inquired of the Company what experience the man had in the sort of work in which he was engaged. The reply is that he had ten years' experience as porter in the same capacity as that in which he was employed by the Cork and Bandon Railway at Dunmanway.