Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-10-21
FAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA
WRECK OF TRAIN AT ST. AsAPH
JUNCTION.
engine and Several Cars Badly Dam.
agea-Trafnmcn Escape without
fn5ury-General News.
Evening Star Bureau,
101 King street.

Bell telephone No. 1o6
ALEXANDRIA, Va, October II, 1901.
A wreck occurred on the Pennsylvania
railroad at ST. Asaph Junction, Just north
Of this city, this morning at 1:4o o'clock.
The uorthbound passenger train over the
Southern road which left Alexandria a
lew minutes before crashed into a freight
train that was leaving the main track for q
siding No one was seriously hurt, bnt
many OF the passengers and trainmen were
badly shaken up
The accident occurred almost in front Of
the ST. Asaph tower and a few seconds
after the passenger train had entered the
block system. The freight train, which
consisted of a. large number of empty cars
attached to Pennsylvania engine No. 40.
had entered the switch leading to Port
ner's brewery, and the engine and seven
or eight cars had cleared the main track.
box car in about the center of the train
received the full force of the passenger en-
CINE. The car was thrown from the track,
turned bottom upward and almost demol-
ished- Several other freight cars were
injured. and the engine of the passenger
train, No. $50, was badly damaged. Engt-
neer Charles II. Strobel and Fireman Wes-
ton Atkinson were in the cab, but escaped
without serious injury. This fortunate fact
was doubtless due to the light weight Of
the car, which gave way before the impact
of the engine. Had the car been loaded the
engine, which struck 1t at an acute angle,
would probably have been overturned.
Due to the Fog.
1t is said that the collision was partly the
result of the inability of the trainmen 10
see the block signals through the fog. which
was very dense at that time. The psssen-
ger train was going at a high rate of speed,
but the engineer and fireman saw the
threatened accident in time to reverse the
engine and materially decrease the speed
of the train. Both the engineer and lire
man stuck to their posts. After new en-
CINE had been brought out from his city
the passengers were carried on to Washing
ton. A wrecking train was sent tt the
scene and the track was soon cleared.
Local Political Canvass.
The local republicans will open their cam
paign in this city next Thursday evening
with mass meeting in the Opera House.
Colonel ]. Hampton Hoge, the candidate
for governor will be the principal speaker.
He will be presented to the audience by
Chairman Joseph L. Crupper OF the city re-
publican committee. The republicans are
conducting an active campaign In Alexan-
dria. The local democratic organization
has arranged for arousing party spirit In
the campaign and bringing out large vote
on election day. The voters of the city 1t
is said will be addressed by several leading
democratic speakers in the near future
Delegates to Reunion.
The delegates appointed by R. z. Lee
Camp, Confederate Veterans, to attend the
annual reunion of the Grand Camp for the
state, which will meet in Petersburg the
23d instant, will leave tomorrow. Miss
Mary GUSTS Lee of this city will attend
the reunion as sponsor for the state at
large. Miss Janet Davidson, also of this
city, will be maid Of honor to represent the
seventh district at the reunion Of the Sons
of Confederate Veterans, which Will take
place at the same time. Miss Fannie
Brockenbrough Smith Of Alexandria will
be maid of honor from the eighth district
Miss Hattie Selecman of OccoQuan will be
sponsor for this district
Police Court Docket.
Mayor Simpson disposed of the following
cases In the police court this morning: A
soldier giving his name as Charles Horn
and stating that he belonged to company
at Fort Washington, was before the court
on the charge of disorderly conduct He
was assessed So. The man was arrested
at a late hour last night by Officer Travers.
The officer also endeavored to place Horns
companion in custody on the charge Of
drunkenness and disorderly conduct on the
street, but the latter escaped. although the
officer fired at him as he ran William
Lightfoot and Joshua Williams, both col
ored, were assessed So each for shooting
crap. They were arrested by Officer James
T. Smith. For being drunk on the street
Clarence Williams, coiored, was required to
pay IS.