The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-06-23


the boilers and thus prevent the
further horror of one or more ex-
blossoms.
The fearful impact drove the
passenger tender into the bag
gage car and demolished it and
the mail car. In an instant the
peaceful country scene was chang
ed into the likeness of shambles.
TRACKS LINED WITH DEAD AND
DYING.
Along the tracks on both sides
were scattered dead and fright
fully mangled men. These latter
were more fortunate than those
who had been in the baggage car
and on the engines, for most of
them were still pinioned in the
wreckage. out of the immediate
reach of helping hands.
BY what seems we'll nigh a
miracle the damage to the other
cars of the passenger train was
confined almost entirely to broken
windows and doors and the in
jurles to their occupants to bruises
from the shaking up and minor
cuts from flying glass.
There was an instant rush to
escape and for a moment none
seemed able to think what to do
in the presence of the carnage in
to the midst of which they stepped
upon leaving the coaches. Heart
rending shrieks from the injured
quickly brought to the scene the
inhabitants of all the farmhouses
within a considerable radius, and
these Immediately set to work to
do what they could to ease the
suffering.
FARMERS WIVES ANGELS OF
MERCY.
Farmers wives made bandages
OF their clothing and household
linen and worked herOically amidst
the blood and CRIME. One or two
physicians. who had been passen-
gers on the wrecked passenger
train, directed their efforts
As soon as possible, a messen-
ger was hurried to the nearest
telegraph station to summon help
from Westminster. There all the
physicians in the town were gath
cred at the station when the fast
mail from Blue Ridge Summit,
bound for Baltimore. pulled in.
The passengers left the cars, the
medical men hurried aboard and
the train made record lime to the
scene of the wreck. By this time
another relief train was on the
way from Baltimore. bearing more
physicians and supplies for the re-
lief of the injured.
SAD SCENES AT WESTMINSTER
AS fast as they could be taken
from the wTeckage the dead were
placed aboard the train from West
minister and taken to that town
and Union Bridge. The more
seriously injured were brought to
Baltimore City.
AT Onion Station, when the first
trainlOad arrived, five patrol
wagons and two ambulances were
in waiting. When these were fill
ed express wagons were pressed
into service. OF the victims of
the disaster who were lifted from
the ears many were unconscious
and one had died on the trip.
At Westminster a crowd of at
least 1000 people met the funeral
train, and as many of the dead
had friends and relatives in the
town, there were heart rending
scenes at the engine house, where
the bodies were taken and exposed
for identification.
The three trains which figured
in the situation were No. (which
is the new Blue Mountain express;
No II. which is the Union Bridge
accommodation. and No. 5, which
is the HagerstOwn express.
The freight train. known as No.
43. was made up of two engines,
Nos. Al and 43. aud II loaded
ears. 1t was bound for Port Gov
ington. The freight had waited
on siding at Gorsuch, about six
miles east of Westminster, until
the Blue Mountain express, which
was making its initial run of the
season, and an accommodation
train had passed. Then the freight
pulled out on the main line. which
is single track, and was proceed
ing east to a siding at LawnSdale,
when, on rounding curve near
Patapsco Station, about seven
miles east of Westminster, it ran
head on into the through passen-
ger train which leaves Hillen
Station, Baltimore, daily at five
o'clock, and which was travelling
at the rate of about 80 miles an
hour.
1t is said that the rounding of
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