Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-04-30

Quoted through pipes 10 the tank which d IN
the narrow cut beside the track The cut h 20
narrow that there 10 room for but o single
track
THE wArcHNAS WAS HkRD AT WORE.
When the accident occurred Mr.. Moore,
the vatchman, was hard st work in the pump
house. he has been on duty st waring station
for several years and he h . man who never
neglects his duty. Even had he been st the
station he could not possibly have prevented
the accident for the express train was running
at the rate of about q mile q minute.
This il the third or fourth accident that has
happened in the neighborhood within year OF
two. the residents say, and they are tired
OF hearing Of 90 many persons being killed
DouBLE TRACK pExASDEn
Something must be done, they say. toward
putting down double track all along the road,
even il the Legislature has 30 be appealed 20 or
mass meetings have 20 be held. I've are glad
10 have the road here. " said one Of the county
officers 10 q SrAR reporter. "but we certainly
do wish something would be done 10 prevent
the killing OF 80 many persons The money
loss 20 the railroad amounts 20 nothing. IL h
the loss OF precious lives that we deplore. III
the company would take the money that the
single track accidents costs them il would take
but q few months 20 put down the double track
and then the company would make good pay
ing investment
WHERE TIE WRECK WAS BURNING.
Yesterday morning. after . night Of hard
work and mental suffering on the part Of those
who were employed At the scene Of the disaster,
the pile 81 cars, freight and other wreckage was
still burning and every one Of the several hun
dred persons who gathered about there won
dered II there were more persons in the smoul-
dering ruins. Everybody fully expected that
when the IRE was extinguished IL would be
found that the bodies Of the men beneath the
IRE would have entirely disappeared. but such
did not prove 10 be the case, at least with one
exception. Postal Clerk Burdette's body pre-
scented the best appearance. but he was 30 badly
scalded and burned that he hardly in q con-
diton to be seen after being placed In the
coffin.
Conductor Amey, whose body was not re-
covered until yesterday, published in yester-
days STAR, was identified by persons who had
known him. His body was in q fairly good
condition, but the third body was taken out in
sections and was far beyond recognition. ID
was the body Of either Engineer Elliott or Fire
man Murphy, and the remaining body 10 still
beneath the wreck, which is piled mp on the
narrow space between the track and the high
embankment 10 the left of the track near the
tank Yesterday afternoon at shutdown the
fre was still smouldering and q gang Of track
hands were still al work making the track more
secure.
The track for a distance Of q hundred feet or
ulote "oc suIONn itOul plhCt anu DutuDtr
OF the cross-ties were snapped in two ~ though
they were so many pipe stems.
The small hose, such ne il used in an engine,
was put into operation soon persons could
get near enough to the fire TO throw on the
water.
The heat was 80 intense that il was with con-
siderable difficulty that persons were able TO
get near enough 10 the wreck TO save the
injured who did not lose their lives.
DESCRIPTION OF THE WRECK.
In describing the wreck one who was al the
scene soon after the collision said: The ex-
press was going 90 fast that the engine drawing
it went clear over the top Of the freight en-
CINE. Among those who were soon upon the
ground was Magistrate Musser one of the
Oldest and most highly respected citizens Of the
county.
lie viewed the body of Burdette soon after Il
was recovered, and the railroad officials asked
to move il, but he would not grant them per-
mission until he had summoned q Jury and
swore them over the body to make a full inve--
tigatlon Of the circumstances leading 10 the
accident
THE ooRoNKR's yURrEs
Those summoned were Patrick Scanlon, r.
r. Moore, W. W. Hessie, John Diggs, W. II.
Stanford, George Cubit, Z. A. McAtee, j. &.
A. Hanfruany, Theodore McAtee, Jas Trail,
Richard Arnold and Barton Trail. After the
jury was sworn and had viewed the body per-
.
Musser found il extremely diffcult 20 obtain
any information about the accident or the
manner of running the trains. He also found
II impossible TO procure the names OF the dead
and injured Information concerning the
IL was stated that the trains we're
running on schedule time and mot
on special orders and large book contain
ing the time tables was produced Repressn-
tatives Of the company said they would not
la their fplapranh 4 fla a.
but Magistrate husser made out q summons
for the operator az Point of Rocks and had u
sent to the deputy sheriff at that place for SER
vice. When the bodies Of Conductor Amey
and one OF the other railroad men were recov-
cred from the wreck there was no one who
would give the conductors name, and 30 whom
the magistrate summoned q second Jury they
were sworn TO investigate the death Of two
unknown men. This jury was composed Of
Joseph A. Tarney, w. W. Hessie, j. II. Crav-
ford, J. L. Benson, A. G. Brown, W. A. Cook,
J. ]. Pyles.
As already stated, the first Jury was i'm
Panneled as soon rs Postal Clerk BurdetteIs
body was found, and the magistrate wanted to
proceed with the hearing, but the railroad
officials did not want to keep the Witnesses
there at that time, as some of them were among
those who were injured, and the consequence
Was that the investigation was postponed until
today.
Magistrate Musser says he intends 10 make q
thorough investigation, and If the witnesses
cannot be obtained today he will further post
pone the inquest until they are obtained
There being building at the station The
inquest is likely TO be held in the open AIR un-
less the railroad company provides transporta-
ton for the jury and witnesses to Germantown
When the members Of the two juries reached
Waring today the evidences Of the wreck were
still visible. Whit little was left of the two
engines and the cars that were consumed
in the flames was scattered here and there along
the track for q distance Of q quarter of q mile.
The wreckers had thrown il TO the sides of the
track in order that trains might pass, but very
little any had been taken away The tank a
which the freight engine was taking water al
the time Of the accident was also DESTROYED
The railroad men who were working on thu
track said that the small stream Of water that
was thrown upon the fire the evening Of the
accident was the only thing that prevented the
total destruction Of the bodies. although thew
think that the body of the missing man win nos
be found.
DISTRICT CnyERNMENr