Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29
THREE MEN KILLED.
WRECK AT GERMANTOwNs STATION,
ON THE b. IL o. ROAD.

ana consisting OF engine NO. 81
and eight cars, namely, a baggage
and "A postal car, two days coaches,
two sleepers and a parlOr and din.
ing car, came into collision with
freight tram at Germantown station
on the Metropolitan Branch, GO
miles west Of Baltimore, shortly
before five o'clock yesterday after.
noon. David Zllcr, OF Martinsburg,
w. Va, engineer, and Chas. r.
Quarles, of Baltimore, fireman OF
the passenger train, aud Frank w.
Ray, of Toms Brook, Va, brake
man on the freight train, were
killed. The locomotive, baggage
Car and mail car of the express
were wrecked, as were the cabOose
and four cars of the freight train.
Tie freight train, which was in
charge OF Conductor G. ". Lick.
lider, had been ordered to take the
siding at Germantown IN order to
let No. 6 pas. This was done.
Ray, who was killed, attended to
the switch. Alter the freight tram
had gone in on the siding, Con.
ductOr Licklider asked Ray if he
was certain he had closed the
switch, to which Ray replied that
be was. This was about twenty
minutes before the accident.
1t is supposed now that Ray
carelessly threw the heavy switch
bar up, but, instead of it falling
over, as he intended it should, it
fell back, leaving the switch open.
He did not lock it, because, 1t is
thought, he did not wish to unlock
it to let the train out. He went
back into the cabOOse, and was in
it when killed.
No. was about an hour late
when Washington Junction was
passed, and was going at about 30
miles an hour up the slight grade
leading to Germantown. The tram
entered the switch before the en-
gineer was aware of it, and crashed
into the freight train before the
could reach the air-brakes. When
found under the engine his right
arm was Outstretched toward the
brake. He was instantly killed,
was crushed almost beyond rocOg.
milton, and his flesh was terribly
scalded by the escaping steam. He
was unmarried, was very popular,
and had been in the employ of the
road for about twenty years. The
fireman, Quarles, was badly crush
ed aud scalded.
lie was taken from beneath the
engine alive, and lived until 9:l5
o'clock last night. He lived at
2029 Hanover street, was twenty.
Jwo years of age, aud was the only
support of widowed mother and
several brothers and sisters. lie
had been in the employ of the road
for about five years. The Rev. G.
J. Judge, of st. Charles College,
was on the tram, and was with the
injured man giving him spiritual
consolation until the train left.
The engine was a complete wreck,
and the baggage and postal cars
we're pretty badly broken up. 4.
Leeds, f. L. Ross and l.. 7. Benton,
Jr., were in the latter, and all es.
capped injury except Benton, who
had his knee hurt. The engine
plOwed its way thrOugI the ca.
bOOse of the freight train and
through a freight car loaded with
bran. The next car was loaded
with limestone tor the COngresslon-
al Library building at Washington.
The engine mounted upon this and
then turned oyer. The vestihules
OF the passenger train prevented
the cars from teleScoping and also
from leaving the track, only the
engine, the mail and baggage cars
being derailed. None OF the pas.
sengerS were iniIred, those in the
rear cars not even being shaken up
to any ex emf. The Rev. Mr.. Judge
said that the jolt was no more Sc
we're than when the air brakes are
applied suddenly.
Eight sisters Of the Holy Cross
from South Bend, Ind, were on
the train, ana their white head.
dresses were not even disarranged.
Four left the train at Washington
and four went to the NOtre Dame
Convent, near b Gilmore.
The freight cars were piled up in
heap ami their contents scattered
IN every direction. All of the mail
matter and express aud baggage
matter was recovered and dispatch.
ed by S O'clock, 10y which time the
track was cleared and the half
dozen blOckaded trains, east aud
west, were moved. As the Hagers.
town train was moving out a boy
named Frank Ripple, of Boyd's
Station, who had gone down to see
the wreck, was caught between the
cars and the freight platform. The
train was moving slO Tly, but was
not stopped until both of RUPEES
legs were mashed so that they will
have 10 be ampatated. 1t took half
hours work to extricate him. The
scene of the accident is 20 miles
west OF Washington and 10 miles
east of Point CT Rocks. 1t is four
miles west OF where the double
track on the Metropolitan Branch
ends.
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