§ MR. BELL (Derby)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the accident which resulted in the death of James Lumsden, goods guard on the North British Railway, at Portobello, on the 31st January; and whether he has received any official report showing that the wagons were labelled on one side only, thus necessitating the man going underneath the wagons to see such labels; and whether he can now state the cause of the accident.
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThe Board of Trade have received the statutory notice of the accident referred to. The unfortunate man was found lying in a siding suffering from injuries which shortly 1251 proved fatal. No one appears to have seen the accident happen. I have ordered an inquiry into the circumstances to be held by an Assistant-Inspecting Officer of Railways.