Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-20
WORK TRAIN WRECKED
Three Killed in Mishap on West
ern Maryland.
40 MILES OF HAGERSTOWN
On New Extension Short Distance
From Pearre, Md.
ABOUT FIFTEEN WERE INJURED
Struck Large Rock on Track After
Emerging From Indigo Tunnel
Cars Under Water.

| Special Dispatch to The Star
/ HAGERSTOWN. Nd. May 19.-Three men
were killed outright and some fifteen in
1ured as the result of a work train being
wrecked shortly after o'clock this even
ing on the new extension of the w. NJ. r..
r.. just east of Indigo tunnel. a few miles
west of Pearre, Md, and about forty miles
| west of Hagerstown.
The dead: Charles Henry and j. William
Henry, brothers. and Charles Clergerman
all three of whom lived In the vicinity of
Pearre.
Among the injured. some of whom will
probably die. and all from Hancock and
Pearre. are: G. Hurley Hurst David Slime
baugh. Edward Oxford. ]. P Youngblood
w. P. Parlett. W. A. Glaee Roy Ingram. A.
Henry.
Others less seriously injured, also from
Hancock and Pearre, include: W. F. Car
ter. ]. P. Gather. w. E. Allen, K. d.
Sipes. c. c. Youngblood, Charles Sipes
George Youngblood.
Conductor Luther Hull of Hagerstown,
who had charge of the train and Brakeman
Penner. also of this city, sustained minor
injuries. Conductor Hull saved his life by
| jumping.
Robert Barton and Charles Swope. who
were also on the train, are missing. Whether
| they were drowned in the canal is not
known.
Cause of the Wreck.
A large rock that had rolled down on the
track about $50 yards east of Indigo tunnel
| was the cause of the wreck Aboard the
| train were about twenty workmen, mostly
track hands. riding in two camp cars The
engine was in the rear, pushing the train.
Shortly after the train had emerged from
| the tunnel 1t struck the rock and the two
work cars were derailed and rolled down
the embankment into the C. and O. canal
the water at that point being about eight
feet deep.
Ciergerman was instantly killed prohablv
being crushed between the two cars. The
Henry brothers, both of whom were In
5ured, drowned before they could be res
cued.
The cars are still under water. It is be-
Heved by some that the bodies of Swope
and Barton are pinned under the cars
Engineman E. w. Manahan of Hagers-
town, who was in charge of the locomo-
tive was painfully bruised The engine re-
manned on the track.
Injured Taken to Hancock,
The injured men We're taken to Hancock
and a relief train was sent out from Ha-
gerstown with DR.. ]. McP. Scott, the COM
pany's physician, aboard. At Hancock Dr.
Scott was Joined by DR.. j. A. West and
other physicians, who dressed the wounds
Of the injured. A number of the latter Will
be brought to the hospital here tonight
The dead were taken in charge by Under
taker c. e. Iineweaver of Great Capon
w. Va, and prepared for burial.
That all Of the workmen in the two work
cars were not drowned is regarded as little
short of a miracle. The cars were closed
and some of the men were completely ex-
hausted before they managed to get out OF
the water.
Owing 70 the fact that the engine was
pushing the train. instead of pulling it, the
struct!on.
William Schlichter, employed in the
Western Maryland railroad yards here, was
run over by an engine tonight and his left
leg was crushed. He was riding on the
pilot of the engine and was Jared off.