The evening times., 1896-06-18
NO BLAME WAS ATTACHED
Coroner's Jury Exonerrated
the B. & o. Railroad.
INQUEST INTO ACCIDENT
Witnesses Testified As to the Cir
= cumstances Surrounding the Tragic
Death of the Lads-The Speed of
the Train and the Blowing of the
2 w hlstle.

The inquest held by Deputy Coroner
| Glazcbrook at tile Sixth precinct station
ilis morning upon Fred. Smith and Will
| lam ii. jenkins, the boys killed by the Bal
timUre and Ohio express near the boundary
yesterday. resulted in Il complete exonera-
l<uon of tue company and officials. The
verdict closed: NO blame whatever can
be attached to the railroad authorizes or
lis employees The jury deiiberated about
twenty inmates. r
| The inquest was begun ut II a. m. by
Deputy Coroner l.. w Glazebrook at the
SIXTH precinct station. The bodies were
Then taken away for burial, by c. W.
Jerkins, the father or ere, and ". F.
LihkinS. stcp-father of the ether.
Tue jury were first taken out to the
nurSue. where they saw the remains OF the
boy, William II. jenkins, ten years old
lying almost Us he was found. Tie little
fellow was very little disfigured and
except Tor few discooratioDs about
his face lie might have died a natural death
After. the Jury went out the body was
given 10 The undertaken.
Charles Mcdonald, u track hand was the
first witness. He saw one OF the boys as he
was thrown aside by the train.
The train was going aboutthe usual speed
for the express about forty miles an hour.
His statements regarding the speed We're
questioned by S. w Curriden, who was
present for Mr.. jenkins.
Edward NcCauley, the Florida avenue
cateman. was next heard. He saw the
boys when they were going toward Ivy.
city. About three-quarters Of an hour
| later he saw the boys gilled as they were
going. toward Washington. He heard moth
ing unusual a boutthe whist.ing OF the train.
AWTHEAcclDENT.
He said lie had no schedule OF the time
trains were due, but depended on the
signal from Ivy City to tell when To close
| the gate. oii AZ
Sidney Tapseott,1 gardener ut the Ken
dall Green Asylum, heard the train blow
| as If somebody was on the track, and
| Scott Nickens. also employed at the
| asylum. heard the signal.
| Travers Mcintosh, colored. said the same
| train hat killed the boys came near kill
| ing himself and companion. They were
| walking a long the middle OF the track
They heard no whistle, but the ether ma n
looked back, and tliey jumped Off Just in
! time. -
| Immediately after the train passed they
aw The boys lying dead on the track. He
heard 10 whistle whatever. The train was
| going the fastest he ever saw.
JO'li l.. 2ttNuEl- au
ofNo. 1912 Tenth street. said lie was with
| McIntosh and corr oborated his story.
He heard no whistle anywhere until after
| the boys must have been struck.
THE TRAINS SPEED.
Edward Drks saw the boys walking on
| the track, one after the other, on the ties
outside the track. He heard the whistle of
the train coming in. but the boys had not
time to get out of the wly.
Theodore Schnaevele, who lives in Erew-
| er's court but did not know his age, said he
| went out yesterday morning with West
| jenkins and Freddie Linkns 10 PICK flow
ers. AS they came home he was walkiug
along the track. He heard the train whistle
| and the watchman call to them to get off
| the track. He got off, but the other toys
didn't The train bumped against Freddie
| and Freddie was thrown against West.
| His testimony was a good deal confused.
| Engineer Henry B. Davis of No 1923
| South Cha rles street, Baltimore, said
| when lie passed the station at Trinidad he
saw three boys walking along near the
| track forty yards away. When lie got with
| in twenty feet one Of the boys stepped up
| on the end of the ties.
| He whistled and called, but the boy paid
| no attention. Another train was passing.
and possibly he didn't hear.
| TIC engine SiTuCh tue Coy OH tEe TRACK
| threw him against the other boy, and
| both fell beside the culvert. He was run
| ming fifteen to twenty miles an hour. In
| structions were to run twelve miles an
| hour after leaving the boundary.
| Till they reached Ivy City hey ran forty
| five to fifty miles an hour Then he began
| to slow up. He was instructed to blow at
stations and gates, but not at every street
/ but to blow in case of danger.
Il tsnid Won hlnyp at the TrinidDd tarpato,'
| Eyes"
'Did you blow when you saw the hoy
| on the track"
Yes sir; and kept blowing. Ibid every
thing could have done, if the boys had
/ been my own.'
| He stopped as soon as he could and called
| the conductor.
Fireman c. Burns said the engineer blew
| for the target and again when the boy
stepped on the track. There was time for
the boy to get off the track after the whistle
blew.
| The matter was then given to the jury.