The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-18
IE|GHIEE \ DEAD
IN TRAIN WRECK n. c < I.
Passenger Cars Escaped; Freight.
Cars and Engine
Smashed.
MANY W oRKMEN. WERE KILLED |. !
Had Been to One Wreck and and
ere R eturning to Spend sun
IS day at Home.
.MANYsWORKMEN WERE KILLED.
nv Associated Press.l

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BALTIMORE, MD, June 17.-By far the
worst wreck in the history Of the West est
ern Maryland Railroad occurred this eve
Ming at a point about a quarter OF mile
from Patapsco a small station between
westminster and Finksburg. At least
eighteen people are believed to have been
killed and score more injured.
Passenger train No. 81 fwestbound was
running at "a very high rate Of speed,
when at the point named it crashed into
double header freight running east. All
three Of the engines were reduced 70
scrap iron, the express and baggage cars
Of tho passenger We're smashed, and q
number of tho freight cars were spin.
tered. The passenger coaches sustained
little injury. and almost without excep-
ton their occupants escaped with nothing
worse than bad shaking up. The fatal
tiles and injuries were TO the crews OF
the engines. and to worknen employed by
the railroad.
1t lis a remarkable coincidence that
these latter should have been at work
repairing the damage caused BY recent
small freight wreck that occurred 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 pas
sengers, they had boarded the baggage
car and engine. When the crash came the
most fortunate, who were on the en- ginc,
jumped or were thrown from the train.
and were onlylnjured. 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 be-
fore the first relief train bringing injured
to the hospitals of this city left the scene
the wreckage about these began to burn.
The first relief train to reach here
brought eleven badly injured and one
who died on the trip. Those taken from
the wreck dead were taken to Westmin-
ster, A dozen ambulances awaited the
tlon and hurried the Injured to hospitals
as fast as they could be taken from the
cars
The point at which the accident oc-
Cured Is 80 situated that news Of the
wreck was slow in reaching Baltimore.
AS soon as the news arrived the railroad
company sent relief trains and as many
Buried Under Wreckage.
Although all the help that can possibly
be used Is at hand, there are many dead
auA '!JN' w r. " o.N'S. 'uo "tSSno 81.
GEORGE g.. COVELL, OF Hagerstown,
| engineer on passenger train
JOHN j. sLEDGER, fireman OF the
passenger train, E5 a!lt5 Is
SHOEMAKER. OF Hagerstown fireman.
WRIGHT, Hagerstown, engineer OF
| one OF the freight engines,
JOHN GROUSE. OF Taneytown, Md,
engineer on one OF the freight engines,
DERR, conductor of freight train.
| The following repair gang:
JAMES GROSHON, Thurmont,
| CHARLES KELLY, Thurmont.
WILLIAM SWEENEY, Thurmont.
MCCLELLAN SWEENEY, Thurmont.
FRANK SWEENEY, Thurmont'
| HARRY SWEENEY, brother OF Me-
Clellan Sweeney.
CHARLES n. MILLER .Thurmont.
GUY LYNN, Middlcburg,
One unknown man.
No one cnn he found Tonight willing
to say who was responsible for the dis
nster, although, 1t seems to have been
tfe fault of those In charge of tho.
freight. Tho wreck occurred on a curve
where the Patapsco River Is crossed
The passenger train was running at
speed Of at least thirty miles an hour
and the freight, an extra made up chiefly
OF heavy coal cars, was also running
re- mildly. ~