The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-19
LIST OF THE DEAD NOW
 NUMBERS TWENTY-FIVE
RESULTS OF DISASTER ON THE WESTERN MARYLAND
 ROAD.

All the Victims Employees of the Cons
 pany-Returning to Their Homes Along the Line to Spend sunday---
 Freight Failed to Take Siding as
 Ordered and Passenger Train Plunged Into It Head-on -- Heartrending Scenes Follow the CoIlision--aranx
 Pinioned in wreckage.
 Baltimore, June 1S-The death roll
 of last nights disaster on the Western
 Maryland railroad now foots up twen- lty-five and this number is likely to be
 increased from among the list of those
 badly injured.
 All the dead were employees of the
 railroad, returning to their home in the
 small towns along the railroad to spend 1 Sunday. With the exception of the train
 crews they had been at work repair- ing the damage done to the road bed
 ten days ago by minor freight wreck
 at Mount Hope station, near this city. The train, which was number 5, pass
 enger, westbound, carried large num-
 Der of passengers, all the coaches being | filled. As many of the workmen as
 could do so went into the baggage car, the remainder of the gang of thirty-five 1 finding places on the platform between the mail and baggage cars and be- tween the latter and the tender. In the neighborhood of Patapsco ,sta- tion, about eight miles from Westmin- ster. the Western Maryland has many curves. and the one just west of the bridge cross the Patapsco river is es. pecially sharp.
 An extra frieght, made up of heavy coal and provision cars. was running east. It should have taken a siding to allow No. to pass. Such were the ow-
 ders. Why they were disregarded will
 never be known, for all those who
 should have seen that they were obeyed | are dead.
 The passenger train was running at l a speed of thirty miles an hour and the freight was making good time.
 being drawn by two engines. Just west of the bridge the trains came together with terrific force, the three engines
 being piles one upon another, fortu- nately in such a manner that sufficient steam connections were broken to re- lieve the boilers and thur prevent the l further horror of one or more expIo- sions.
 l The fearful impact drove the passen- i ger tender into the baggage car and de- molished it and the mail car. In an l instant the tracks on both sides were lined with dead and frightfully inangled men, these latter more fortunate than ! those who had been in the baggage l car and on the engines, for most of them were still pinioned in the wreck- | age out of the immediate reach of help- ing hands. By what seems well nigh a miracle, the damage to the other cars of the passenger train was confined all most entirely to broken windows and doors and the injuries to their occu- \ pants to bruises from the shaking up and minor cuts from flying glass Heart rending shrieks from the injured quieIx- | ly brought to the scene the inhabitants of all the farm houses within q com siderable radius and these immediately set to work to help do what they could to ease the suffering. Farmersa wives and daughters made bandages ofS I their clothing and household linen andr l worked heroically.
 
 I One or two physicians who had been passengers on the wrecked passenger train directed their efforts. As soon as possible, messenger was
 hurried to the nearest telegraph stH- tion and summoned help from West~ minister. By this time relief train was on the way from Baltimore beainrg more physicians and supplies for the relief of the injured. I As fast as they could be taken from
 the wreckage the dead were placed aboard the train from Westminster and | taken to that town and Union Bridge. The more seriously injured were brought to this city.
 At Westminster a crowd of about 1,0o0 people met the first relief train and l there were sad scenes at the engine | house where the bodies were taken and exposed for identification. ( |