Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-10-24
TRAINMEN GUILTY.
The Coroner's Jury Agrees That the Mud
Run Disaster Was Caused by Gross
NeglIgence-Other verdicts.

MAUcH CHUNK, Pa, Oct. 2k-The coro
ner's jury investigating the Mud Run dis
aster agreed on the following verdict at this
city:
"We find that the engineers of locomotives
452 and 456 of the seventh section were guilty
of gross negligence, first in failing to discover
the red signal in time, the evidence clearly
showing that this signal was in full view as
their trains approached, and secondly for not
approaching the station under full control,
as required by both the general and special
orders. The evidence also shows that the air
brakes of the entire seventh section wera un.
der the control of the engineer of locomotive
466, and that he could have stopped the trair
in spite of the locomotive ahead, No. 452.
''lYe find that the lookout men of loco
motives 452 and 466 were guilty of gross neg
ligence in failing to report to their respective
engineers the red light at the station as the
train approached These men were placed on
their respective engines as an additional pre-
caution, their special duty being to look out
for signals. The lookout man on 452 failed
to see the signal The other one on 466 tes-
titled that he saw it when about l 800 feet
from the station, and yet he reported all
right to the engineer and claims that he did
not think the red light meant anything, as
nobody used it.
1--WE find that the rear brakeman of the sixth
section was guilty of gross negligence, for
when the train stopped, instead of promptly
going back the proper distance to warn the
approaching train, he stopped at the station
There was time enough for him to have gone
back nearly half mile, but he went less than
400 feet. We find that the conductors of the
two sections failed in their duty; the first
in not conforming to the rule requiring each
man protects the rear of his train, and the
second in not requiring his train to approach
the station under control.
WASHINGTON, Pa, Oct. 24-In the verdict
of the coroner's jury investigating the Balti
more and Ohio wreck of last Friday, the
deaths of Engineer James Noonan and Fire
man William McAuliffe, of the wrecked ex-
press train, were declared to have been caused
by criminal negligence on the part of Con-
ductor Cornelius Heck, of the yard crew, in
not seeing that the switch on the left of the
''Y," which his brakeman, Edward Boon,
opened, was closed.
Heck is declared to be guilty of involuntary
manslaughter, and Acting Coroner Ripple has
Issued a warrant for his arrest He is sup.
posed to be at his home near Punxsutawney,
Ia, where he went after being discharged by
the Baltimore and Ohio Saturday Boon is
also declared to have been grossly negligent
and the Baltimore and Ohio company is
found to be guilty of gross negligence in not
producing proper signals 50 that the engineer
could tell whether the switch, which is de-
:lared to be especially dangerous, is open OF
shut.
MAUcH CHUNK, Pa, Oct. 24-The coro-
1er's jury investigating the Tamenend acci-
lent, which resulted in ten deaths and the
injury of over twenty persons, has agreed
upon verdict charging the fagman with
neglect in not signaling the approaching
train, censuring the engineer of the Pennsyl-
vania freight train for running at such high
rate of speed, and also the engineer of the
Lehigh Valley gravel train for not protecting
his train according to the orders issued.
The district attorney of Carbon county has
issued warrants for the arrest of Henry Cook,
Thomas Major, John Mulhern, James Han.
nigan, Charles Terry, Joseph Pohl and 10.
seph Keithline on criminal charges made
against them by the coroners jury in the
Mud Run disaster, which resulted in the
death of over sixty and the injury of many
other persons.