The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-31
THIRTY=FIyE LOSE LIVEsIN DISASTER ON B. X 0. K. R. YEAR WASHINGTON,
 OVER SIXTY PASSENGERS INJURED

talking with a gentleman and his wife from Detroit. Mich. We were all stand ing up. the car being, crowded. Sud- denly we heard an awful noise, and then crash. Women began scream- ing, and the next thing I knew I found myself rolling down an embankment where some one picked me up, and found I was not badly hurt. It Is im- possible to describe the scene. Women and children were shrieking and drowned the groans of the dying. Children were running about crying for their parents, and mothers and fathers wee rushing aound trying to | find their children. The dead and in- jured were strewn along the track for a distance of a mile" The wreck is said to have been caus- ed by the telegraph operator at Silver Springs letting two trains in on one | block. The engineer of the Frederick train has been arrested. Train No. 66, due here at 6.25 p. m. from Frederick. Md, known as the Frederick local, collided with a dead head passenger equipment special of eight cars. The local train was Q 1 little late arriving at Terra Gotta. at s:13. The wreck occurred at that station.
 | c. w. Galloway, superintendent of transportation of the. Baltimore and Ohio stated tonight that it was im- | possible yet to determine the cause or the wreck. He said:
 We have on this division the most modern block system. Just what l occurred we are unable at this hour. to say because of the confusion inci- dent to the collision and of the car- ing for the dead and injured. We have been unable to consider the probable | cause.
 'rWe have not yet interrogated the | operators, and until we do so, we can not be certain what the situation was We shall institute immediately an in- l quiry into the causes of the collision. l That inquiry will begin tomorrow, probably in Baltimore, where all the \ trains record are. We shall make the inquiry as rigid as possible and | shall give the results of 1t promptly to the public through the press. Shortly before midnight a hospital train svhich had been sent from Wash ington arrived at the wreck and the work of taking on the injured and the | bodies of the 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 It has been proven that the danger signal at Takoma Park. at short dis tance from the place of the accident was set when the train of empty cars passed. The train was going at the rate of sixty miles an hour and Engi- neer Hildebrand stated that on account of ,the heavy fog he could not see the signal His train ran into the Fred erick train just as 1t was pulling out Of Terra Gotta. where 1t had stopped to take on four or five passengers, two l of these being among the killed. aorfya nA hn fireman of the train of empties were arrested and brought to Washington.
 About three hundred workmen are engaged in clearing away the wreck age. All traffic on the division has been stopped.
 The grade at the place where the tragedy occurred is downward and the tracks were slippery.
 The Frederick train, which is run on Sundays only, Is largely for the accommodation of those who have gone to the suburbs on Sunday and for the benefit of church goers who desire to attend services in Washington at night and presumably a number of the lat ter were on the train. It leaves Fred erick at five minutets past four in the afternoon and is scheduled to reach Terra Gotta about 6:15. The train was about on time tonight when the crash came.
 At first. owing to the impenetraole fog. it was impossible to determine the extent of the disaster and early ru- mors placed the number of killed at higher figures than those which prov ed later to be accurate. A special which had been dispatched to Terra Gotta brought the injured whose wounds had been hastily dressed and they were sent around to the vari- ous hospitals.
 Three died on the way to the city and one death occurred in one of the hos pitals.
 The engine of the rear train is said to be one of the largest and latest type of passenger engines used on the road. The fact of it's size probably saved 1t from total destruction and because of this Harry Hildebrand and his fireman escaped with their lives Hildebrand Is said to have been a substitute He was arrested.
 Partial List of Fatalities.
 Following is a partial list of the dead:
 Mary Leffold, 30 years of age. em- ployed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. this city.
 George Higbie, years old, Brook land. D. C.
 Elizabeth Pearman, Takoma Park.
 T. A. Kelly, Kensington, Md.
 Clarence Proctoc, this city.
 Al Chambers, this city.
 R. F. Elgin, this city.
 V. s. Legge. this city.
 Clinton l.. Moore, this city.
 Mrs. D. M. Carr. Kensington. Md.
 E. NJ Moore, this city.
 Raymond J. Cooley.
 Miss KolI, Ca Y. w. c. A. card was found in her pocket.
 White girl. IS years old, unidentified
 While girl. IS years old. unidentified.
 Negro baby, unidentified.
 White baby, unidentified.
 Norman Rogers, white, Marion, Ind
 Mrs. J. McCaghley and her 14-year- old son.
 Edward M Belt. white. IA years old. address unknown.
 Commodore P. Brown. 60 years old, address unknown.
 Professor King. organist Wesley Chapel, Kensington, Md.
 Two negro women, unidentified
 Two white women about thirty years old, unidentified.
 White woman, twenty five years old, unidentified.
 White woman, twenty years old, un- identified.
 White child, unidentified.