The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-19
DEATHS IN PATAPSCO
WRECK TOTAL e
Almost All of Thom Were Raj
way Workmen
DAYS WORK WAS ENDED
They Were Returning from Repairing
the Road Bed When the Train
coIIIded With a Freight
Heartrending Scenes
DAYS WORK WAS ENDED

land railroad now foots tive, shree, and
this number is likely teSS increased
from among the list of 20 9 .nangled.
All the dead were emT of the rail-
road returning to the = les in small
towns along the roaf y 2 pend Sunday
They had been at w Q . Iairing damage
done to the roadbe < ) days ago by q
minor freight wre o ) Mount Hope sta
which was No stbound carried a
large number sengers. AS many Of
the worlSmen as CT i'd do so went into the
baggage car, the remainder finding places
on platforms on the mail and baggage
cars and between the latter and the ten
der.
Freight Disobeyed Orders.
In the neighborhood of Patapsco sta
ton, about eight miles from Westminster,
the Western Maryland has many curves,
and that just west of the bridge cross
ing the Patapsco river is a sharp one.
An extra freight made up of heavy coal
and provision cars was running east. Ac-
cording to It's orders it should have taken
the siding to allow No. to pass. Why the
orders were not obeyed is not known. The
passenger train was running at speed of
thirty miles an hour, and the freight,
double-header was making good time.
Just west of the bridge they came to-
gether with terrific force, and three en-
gines being piled upon one another, for
tunately in such manner that sufficient
connections were broke to relieve the
boilers, ad thus prevent the further hor-
ror of one or more explogions
Result of Impact.
The fearful impact drove the passenger
tender into the baggage car and demol-
shed it and the mail car. In an in
stant the scene resembled a shambles.
Along the track on both sides We're scat
tered the dead and frightfully mangled
men, while most of those who had been
In the baggage car and on the engines
were pinioned in the wrecKage. Damage
to the other cars OF the passenger train
was confined almost entirely to broken
windows and doors. and the injury to
their occupants were bruises from the
shaking up and minor cuts from flying
glass.
Shrieks of Injured.
Heart rending shrieks from the in
jured brought to the scene the inhabi-
tants of all farm houses within con-
siderable radius and these Immediately
inaugurated rescue work Farmers wives
and daughters made bandages of their
clothing and house hold linen and worked
heroically amidst the blood and CRIME
One or two physicians who had been
passengers on the wrecked passenger train
gave their services. Relief trains bear
ing physicians were sent as quickly as
possibl from Baltimore and Washington.
List of Dead.
Those taken from the wreck and who
have since died of their injuries were
George b. Covell, Baltimore, engineer
of passenger No. 5.
John Grouse, Taneytown, Md, engineer
of freight engine No A.
James Groshon Thurmont, Md.
Charles Kelley, Thurmont, Nd
l.. d. Rice, Hagerstown. Nd, engineer
of freight engine No. g.
Charles Miller, Thurmont. Mr..
Frank Sweeney, Thurmont, Md
Harry Sweeney, Thurmont, Md.
Mcclellan Sweeney, Thurmont, Md.
William T. Sweeney, Thurmont Md.
John st. Leger, Baltimore.
Frank Kneipert of engine No al, Balti-
more.
Fireman McNamamee of engine No. 43.
Baltimore.
Substitute Fireman Stott.
J. Woodward.
Elmer Miller
Nelson Fraley.
]. w. Schupf
George Stmmel.
Charles Gooble. Thurmont. Md.
Joseph Stitely, Catocton, Md.
Daniel Meyers, Highfeld, Md.
Two unidentified men.
Within the two exceptions noted all of
the killed were railroad laborers.
The Injured.
The injured number of whom are
not expected to live, are:
Calvin Benner Catoeton, Md, railroad
laborer, heel torn off and badly cut about
head probably will die.
Guy Lynn, Middlesburg, Md. railroad
laborer. both legs fractured, burns about
head and internally injured; may die.
William Schupf, Thurmont, Md, rail-
road laborer. fractures of both legs.
Milton Stanbaugh, Double Pipe Creek.
Md, railroad laborer, fractured left leg
and burned on the arm.
A. w. Miller, Thurmont Nd railroad
laborer, burned on face and hands; condi-
ton serious
John Whitmore Thurmond Nd, rail-