The San Francisco call., 1906-12-31

Nd: H. Krebs, Terra Gotta; Mrs. Kem-
10. Washington; Mrs. n. Cooley. Wash
ington; Dr. Heron, Washington fatal;
Thomas c. Homiller, Seneca, Nd, in
ternal injuries; Camden Ramsburg, 26
years old, Frederick, Md, injuries
slight; John p Martin, Harpers Ferry.
W Va. injured fatally; Mrs. John Kun
10. Washington, scalp wound -----
Compiler girl, years old, both legs
fractured daughter of William Com
pher, Washington; Mrs Compiler re-
ported missing; Mrs. A Moore, Wash
ington.
HIT BY FLYING WRECKAGE
one of the worst features of the ca
tastrophe YVES enacted at the station of
Terra Gotta Here a number of pas
seagers were waiting to take the train
into the city when the collision oc-
Cured. OF these only two escaped. The
rest We're either killed by being thrown
under the train or injured by flying
pieces of wreckage.
Those passengers in the forward
coach who were but slightly bruised
heard the groans of the wounded and
did what they could to give aid. A
number Of the passengers started to
walk to Brookland, three-quarters of a
mile away.
The moment the first of the survivors
reached Brookland a general call was
sent out for doctors and ambulances.
DR.. r. w. Frischorn. DR.. Stern and DR..
J. H Brooks of Brookland responded
and were taken TO the scene in auto
mobiles.
One member OF the crew of the pas
senger train who hobbled into a drug
store half an hour after the accident
said:
Il can't tell how many people were
killed. 1t was awful / don't even
know Just how 1T happened. The
freight engine wens through the en-
tire train and it seems to me as IL
every one was killed in the LAST coach
and many in the first. The freight
engine must have run past Fed tar
get. 1 can't explain the accident in
any other way"
United States District Attorney D. w.
forward car, suffered slight injuries. He
was able to walk from the wreck to a
drug store. where his injuries were
treated. He was later taken to his
home in an automobile.
GIVE AID TO WOUNDED
When the news of the accident
spread about Brooklund many citizens,
with their wives, hastened to the scene
TO aid and comfort the wounded.
Mrs. II. F. Fisher OF this city, while
responding to the call of a sufferer.
2-year-old child lying near the track.
The baby was terribly bruised, but was
still alive. 1t was said that the mother
Of the infant had been killed.
District Attorney Baker, in describ-
ing his experience to a correspondent,
said:
4 was in the second car from the
end, coming from my home in German
town. 1 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 distance. I do not know how
got out of the wreckage."
Frank P. Bodlitz a newspaper man of
Frederick, Nd, who was slightly in
jured, said:
4 was in the car next to the smoker,
talking with a man 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 / knew / found myself rolling
down an embankment, where some one
picked me UP, and I found I was not
badly hurt 1t was impossible to de-
scribe the scene. Women and children
were shrieking and drowned the groans
of the injured. Children were running
about crying for their parents, and
mothers and fathers were rushing
around trying TO find their children.
The dead and injured were strewn
along the track for mile"
Shortly before midnight a hospital
train that had been sent from Washing
ton arrived at the scene of the wreck
and the work of taking on the injured
and the bodies of the dead was begun
The unidentified dead were taken to
the morgue, while the bodies of those
who have been identified will be con-
veyed TO their late homes.
About 300 workmen were engaged in
clearing the wreckage. All traffic on
the division was stopped.