The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-31
';;;;iil(RIBLE CATASTROPHE
e ON BALTIMORE & OHIO
hirty-Eight Persons Killed and Sixty
Injured in Collision Near
Washington.
Three Cars Demolished States District Attorney Ba-
ker Among the Injured.

Washington, Dec. 30.-An appalling
disaster occurred tonight at Z o'clock
ON the Baltimore & Ohio at Terra
Gotta, about three miles from this city.
in which about thirty-eight persons
were killed and sixty others injured.
some of them so seriously that they will
die. The accident was caused by the
collision of train No. &C. due here at
6:25 p. M, from Frederick, Md, known
as the Frederick special, with dead
head passenger equipment special of
eight cars. More than 200 passengers
were aboard the Inflated train. The
railway officials late tonight were una
bic TO assign any cause for the col
lision.
Physicians Rush to Scene.
As soon as the news of the wreck
reached this city, all ambulances avail
able with as many physicians as could
be assembled were sent to the scene.
District Attorney Baker, who was in
jured, and who walked a mile and
quarter to a drug store, in describing
his experiences to a representative OF
the Associated Press. said:
MdS III lflt StCbllU car from the
end, coming from my home in German
town. l was four seats from the end Of
the car, and just as the train left Terra
Gotta station the crash came. We were
carried in the wreckage for some dis
lance. I do not know how l got out of
the wreckage."
Shrieking and Groaning.
Frank p. Bodlitz, newspaper man
of Frederick, Nd, who was slightly
injured, said:
Il was in the car next to the smoker
talking with d gentleman and his wife
from Detroit. We were all standing up.
the car being crowded. Suddenly we
heard an awful noise and then a crash.
Women began screaming and the next
thing 1 knew l found myself rolling
down an embarrassment. where some one
picked me up and | found that | was
not badly hurt. 1t was impossible to
describe the scene. Women and chill
.dren were shrieking and drowned
the groans of the dying. Children We're
running about crying for their parents,
and mothers and fathers We're rushing
around trying to find their children
The dead and injured were strewn
along the track for mile"
Shortly before midnight hospital
train that had been sent from Wash
ington arrived at the scene of the
wreck and the work of taking on the
injured and the bodies of me dead was
begun. The unidentified dead will be
taken TO the morgue. while the bodies
of those who have been identified will
be conveyed to their late homes.
Danger Signal Was Set.
1t has been proved that the danger
signal at TakOma Park, a short dis
tance from the scene of the accident,
was set when the train of empties
passed. The train was running sixty
miles an hour. and Engineer Hide
brandt stated that on account of the
heavy fog he could not see the signal
The train ran into the Frederick train
just as ii was pulling out OF Terra
Gotta, where it had stopped to take on
four or five passengers, two of whom
were among the killed.
Both Engineer Hildebrandt and the
fireman on the train of empty freight
cars were placed under arrest and
brought TO Washington.
La About 600 workmen are engaged in !
clearing the wreckage. All traffic on
the division has been stopped.