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Show S'ho AMhiitliiilti Elitrror. A Fuillilul oroner'f Jury, Cleveland, Ohio, 9. Tho following ;b a portion of tuo statement ol the coroner's jury in the Ashtabula bridge case: it is from a careful consideration of the evidence elicited from professionals profes-sionals and experts that our verdict is made up in the matter of the bridge-, and should it nccm severe upon ihe railway company or upon any of it) past or present idlicials, it is beeau-:e the truth as shown by the evidence demands it at our hands. We cannot do less, and wo feel that wo hae discharged our duly. Mr. Amasa Stone, president of the company at the time of tho erection of "this structure, had been for years a prominent pro-minent and successful railroad contractor con-tractor and builder of the Howe Truss bridges with tlu undoubted intention of building a strong, safe and durable wrought iron bridge upon tho Howe truss plan. He designed this slruc-' slruc-' ture.dictatetl ihe drawing of the dans and the erection of the bridge without with-out tho approval of any competent engineer and against tho protest ot the man who made the drawings under un-der Mr. Stone's direction, aWiming the sole and entire responsibility him self. The testimony of skillful engineers engi-neers is that subjecting ,in iron bridge to ft severe ktraiu as a to it before uing it in carrying on Lho Irallio ol a railway, is ol uo valm; as showing its ability lo hear repealed strain.; it only Hhows that it bore Ihe test thai time, and that it inny have permanently perma-nently crippled it bo that its final failure was only a question of time, fhat lho officers ol the railroad re arihd the bridge as safe wo have no doubt, a two of them were on the train that went down and all wcro moro or Ics3 frequently passing over it. |