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Show OITICIALS BAT SPEED LIMIT WAS NOT EXCEEDED NEW YORK. Aug. 99 Th Lehigh Valley railroad today authorised thla official of-ficial atatement regarding th wreck at Manchester. N. T.: "Later reports from stations naalid by train No. 4 yesterday, before It reached Manehealer. corroborate the Information received laat night that th epeed limit at this point was not exceeded. Th limit le twenty-live miles n hour. At each station a record I taken of the time n which the t rains pass, and from thee records It Is possible to know at what peed ny train la running. "The track where the accident eweurred rwaa examined by the company'a men Immediately afterward, and It was found to be In good condition, except for tn - broken rail. . .. ... 11 seems now that the breaking of tn rail waa the only cause of the accident. "The broken rail waa defective. The defect consisted of a 'pipe' an air hoi In the center of the web of th rail extending ex-tending about fourteen Inchea.- The detect de-tect waa such that it could not be delect de-lect wi by Inspection. "The acculent occurred Just outeld the Mancbeater yards and trains do not run through there at a greater speed than twenty-nve mllea an hour. Though this train left Buffalo at 10:24. forty minute late It did not make up any time be-tween be-tween there and Rorheater Junction, and a record of the time at which It paaeed several atatlona showed that the speed limit of twenty -Bve miles waa not exceeded." |