The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-18
assengsr and Freight Crash To-
gtihtf While Running at
High Rate Of Speed
ENGINES ARE SCRAP IRON
AND CARS ARE SPLINTERED
Fatalities and Injuries Were Confined
to Members of the Working Crew
Returning Home for
Sunday.

Baltimore, June 17.--At least eighteen
persons are believed to have been killed
and a score or more injured in wreck
on the Western Maryland railroad near
Patapsco. a small station between West
minister and Finlsburg, this evening. The
fatalities and injuries were to the crews
Of the engineh and to the worxmen em-
ployed by the railroad. Passenger train
No. s. westbound, was running at high
rate Of speed when at the point named
it crashed into a double-headed freight
running east. All three of the engines were
reduced to scrap iron. the express and
baggage cars were smashed and a num-
ber of the freight cars were splintered.
The passenger coaches sustained little in
jury, and almost without exception their
occupants escaped with nothing worse
than a bad shaking up.
Had Been Clearing Away Wreck.
The workmen employed by the railroad
had been repairing the damages caused
by a small freight wreck at Mount Hope
station, near this city They were on
their way to their homes in small towns
along the Western Maryland to spend
Sunday. Not being regular passengers
they had boarded the baggage car and en-
gine When the crash came the more for
tunate, who were on the engine, jumped
or were thrown from the train and were
only slightly injured. Those in the bag
gage car were terribly mangled, and the
crews OF all three engines were killed.
Their bodies are all believed to be under
the wreckage of the engines
Just before the first relief train bring
ing injured to the hospital of this city
left the scene, the wreckage began to
burn.
The first relief train to reach here
brought eleven badly injured and one who
had died on the trip.
The point at which the accident oc-
CURED is so situated that the news of
the wreck was slow in reaching Baltimore.
As soon as the news arrived the railroad
company sent relief trains, and as many
physicians as could be gathered to-
gether.
An express following the freight acted
as a relief from the other side, and the
passengers on both trains gave every
possible aid to the victims.
Dead Still Under Wreckage.
Although all the help that can possibly
be used it at hand, there are dead and
injured yet under the wreekage. Those
known to be dead are:
The Dead.
George B. Covall of Hagerstown. en-
gineer of passenger train.
John ]. St. Leger, fireman Of passen-
ger train.
- Shoemaker of Hagerstown, fireman.
WfiOhf IJa garstovvn engineer. of
one of the freight engines
John Grouse, Taneytown, Md, engi-
neer of one Of the freight engines.
- Deer, conductor of freight train.
The following are the repair gang:
Charles Kelly Thurmont.
Mcclellan Sweeney, Thurmont.
Frank Sweeney, Thurmont.
Harry Sweeney, Thurmont.
Charles T. Miller, Thurmont.
n. C. Lynch, Middleburg.
Guy Lynch, Mddleburg.
l. d. Rite, Hagerstown.
The injured, some of whom will die. in
clude:
The Injured.
Ameer Miller Thurmont
Columbus Miller. Thurmont.
c. Miller. postal clerk, Hagerstown.
b. T.. Tierney, express messenger
Hagerstown.
George Stimmel Thurmont.
Charles Grabille, Thurmont.
William S. Huff, Thurmont.
C. Benner, Thurmont.
T. Hahn, Thurmont.
d. Meyers, Highfield
d. j. Whitmore, Thurmont.
NJ. Stombaugh, Double Pipe Creek.
E. Fuss Thurmont
p. Frebert, Union Bridge.
F. Diebert, employe Union News COM
pany.
William Zeigler, employe Union News
company.
saw who was responsible for the disaster.
The fact that another schedule goes into
effect tomorrow may have caused some
confusion.