The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-09-23
RETURNS TO CAPITAL
President Roosevelt and Fam
lily Back In Washington.
DELAYED BY BROKEN LOCOMOTIVE
First Accident to n Train on which
the President Has Travelled.
His Party In No
Danger,


Danger.
WASHINGTON, Sept 23.-President
Roosevelt and party arrived here oven
the Pennsylvania railroad from Oyster
Bay at ESQ O'Clock yesterday after.
noon. The presidents train was de
layed about thirty-six minutes by an
accident to the rear drivewheel of the
locomotive as it entered the tunnel mt
Baltimore This engine was immedi.
ately detached and another one was
procured to pull the train to Washing
ton. The accident caused 40 damage
to the train.
Fortunately the train was proceed
ing mt very slow rate of speed when
the accident occurred or the result
might have been much more serious
1t was not making more than three
miles an hour when in some unac-
countable manner the tire of the rear
drivewheel on the left side of the
engine broke and curled off. One end
of it protruded upward and jammed
through the boiler of the engine. caus-
ing an almost immediate shutting off
of the steam.
This soon deadeued the engine and
the engineer, Joe Weatherby, rcaliz-
ing that something was wrong.
promptly put on the air brakes. and
the train came to stop without de-
lay. a hurried investigation con
WINGED the engineer ana his crew that
: the engine was useless for further.
service until repairs could be made.
and word was Immediately sent to the
! yard to have another engine sent to
the scene. The call was promptly re-
sponded TO, and after a delay of about
half an hour another engine was at
| tached to the train and it proceeded to
Washington, where it arrived without
further accident.
The cause of the tire breaking. ac-
| cording to the railroad officials was
| quite ineXplicablc. The engine, No.
! 1864, had been attached to the train
/ just before leaving PHILADELPHIA and
| had been thoroughly tested and found
/ to be In first class condition. The ac-
! cident. railway officials say, was one
of those which viii happen in spite
! of every precaution. The president
! and his party took the matter very
| coolly and did not manifest any alarm.
Some members of the train crew went
back to the presidents car to shake
| hands with him on the run from Bal
| timOre to Washington and in their
brief conversation with him spoke of
the accident. The president. however,
| assured them that he had not been
alarmed and remarked that if all his
troubles were as slight as that he
would be getting along beautifully"
This accident is said to he the first
which has happened to train on
which President Roosevelt has travelled
during his administration
The president was given cordial
welcome home by large crowd Of
| people as he came through the train
shed and walked out to the street
where his carriage was waiting. The
| crowd lined both sides of Sixth street
for Il long time before the train ar
rived, and when he made his appear
ance and stepped into his carriage he
was enthusiastically cheered. In com
pany with Mrs Roosevelt and three Of
his children, Archie, Quentin and
Ethel, he was Immediately driven to
the White House. Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff
fc"d Richardson, New York friends of
the president and Mrs. Roosevelt, came
with them to Washington and are
guests ut the White House. Senator
Philnnder c. Knox of Pennsylvania
joined the party at Philadelphia and
came on to Washington with them.
THE senator announced that his speech
to the philadelphia Business Mems
club will be delivered on Oct. /. At
the station to meet the presidential
party We're Major McCawley, Colonel
Bromwell the superintendent of pub
lie buildings and grounds; Marshall
Palmer of the District of Columbia,
and Miss Hagner, Mrs. Roosevelt's sec
rotary.
The president and party travelled
from Jersey City in a special train
made up of the private car Signet, a
combination baggage and passenger
car and two cars used for the transpor-
tation of the presidential horses and
carriages back to Washington. In addi-
ton to the president ana Mrs. Roose-
welt the party included Secretary and
Mrs. Loeb, Assistant Secretary Barnes
and the White House 'clerical ana mes
senger force of nine perstihs, Nh6 have
been on duty mt Oyster Bay, l"r