The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-24
TRAIN RUNS |NT0 !. DYNAMITE WACON Two Persons Killed and Nine
 Injured in Maryland EXPLOSION WRECKS ENGINE Wagon, Driver and Horses Escape Unhurt, Although the Horses
 Were Blown Fifty Yards
 Into an Adjacent Field.
 
EXPLOSION WRECKS ENGINE

Cumberland. Md. September 2S.-Fast freight No. 24 on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad struck wagon loaded with 75O pounds of dynamite at the crossing at North Brancn, West Virginia four miles east of here this afternoon. Two per- sons were killed and nine were injured three of them seriously.
 The dead:
 c. Walter Whitehair, front brakeman, Brunswick. Ga.
 Nelson Pike. Martinsburg. veteran engi- neer. sealded all over and internally in- jured, lived two hours.
 The injured:
 A. B. Sanders, fireman, North Moun- tain, West Virginia, arm broken, scalded on face. body and hands. Charles Hamilton, B. x O., operator and postmaster at North Branch, cuts on face and body.
 scott Hamilton of Little Orleans, Md, cuts in face and body at least fifty in | number.
 James Ashkettle. Little Orleans, cut in face.
 Mary Twigg, oldtown, cut in face.
 Raymond Hamilton, cut in face.
 Maud Sebert, cut in face. James Laing, aged 21, wno was driv- ing the dynamite wagon. cut on leg and eardrum fractured.
 The Baltimore and Ohio tower was wrecked as were several residences near by.
 James Laing, who drove the wagon es- capped with only trivial injury, as did the two horses, although the latter were blown fifty yards into a field.
 Stopped on the Track. l According to eye witnesses Laing, hear ing the train. became terrified and stopped on the track The engine was overturned 1 and stripped and seven cars following, loadeG with high-grade merchandise, were i broken open, several being demolished, the tracks were thrown out of bed, while rails were snapped like pipestems The wires were torn down and relief was tel | egraphed for after going to Patterson . | Creek on a handcar.
 Engineer Pike was held under iron scraps on top of the boiler while being slowly cooked to death. It required four men to extrioate him. The explosion knocked nearly every person in the neigh borhood down, hurled Hunter Bowen through roof, but did not hurt him ana threw pdTlS or the engine zOV ydiuS Archbishop in Wreck. l East Brookfield, Mass, September 23-A special train conveying the archbishop oi canterbury from Bar Harbor Me-, tc l Washington, was wrecked on the Boston and Albany division of the New York Cen tral road, near the station here today. The archbishop was not injured, although considerably shaken up.
 J. P. Morgan of New York, who was also on the train, accompanying the archbishop, was shaken up, but not hurt
 The special was running sixty miles per hour, and was just passing the sta ton when A detached locomotive whicf had been drawing a train on the Nortf | Brookfield hraneh, ran upon the main lin' for some reason unexplained. The en glneer of the special sighted danger signal but on account of the high speed of the train and the slippery condition of the rails due to the mist of the earl, morning. he found 1t Impossible to d' | more than slightly reduce the speed O. the locomotive The engineer of th' branch engine heard the onrush of thu special but he had no time to move ou of the way.
 The archbshop's train struck the Nortl | Brookfield engIe with terrific crasl and demolished 1t. The other locomotiv' was thrown from the rails and landed across tho eastbound track near tn, wreck of the North Brookfield engine The cars did not leave the track.