Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-31
CRASH IN FOG.
HFY:|HR[E DE
Awful Disaster on the B. \ O.
Railroad Near the National
Capital
FAST TRAIN AND LOCAL COLLIDE
Three Coaches Demolished and Human
Freight Thrown About Like chaff-
200 Washington People on Board
partial List Of Dead and injured =
Sixty Are Hurt.

Sixty Are Hurt.
Washington. Dec. 31.-The list OF
dead as the result of the appalling
wreck at Terra Gotta, on the Baltimore
/. & Ohio railway, last night, had reach
ed forty y-seNen at noon today, and IN
ou;ry at the various hospitals OF the
city where the Injured have been TAX
en-. shows number of persons whose
condition is regarded as hopeless. The
injured number over fifty.
Washington, Dec. 31.--At two o'clock
this afternoon the number of dead as a
result OF the Terra Gotta wreck, ac-
cording to the police, reached fifty-
three. Forty-five of this number have
been identified.
washington, Dec. s1.-The total
number killed in the rear-end collision
on, the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at
Terra Gotta, D. G.. last night, Is esti-
mated today at about forty, and the
number Of injured at fifty. The wreck
was caused by an engine drawing eight
empty cars running into a local known
as the Frederick express. just as the
passenger train had pulled out OF the
station beyond, for this city. Engineer
Hildebrand, in charge Of the dead"
train. was arrested shortly after the
disaster He declares that on account
OF q dense fog he was unable to dis
tinguish the signal light at the Takoma
Fark block station. The tower operat-
Sor. Phillips. declares Hildebrand's train
passed the tower station, going at 9
speed Of from fifty to sixty miles per
hour
The latest list Of the dead follows:
Anderson, Col. Robert, Newark, o.
& Austin, Fannie, negress, Washington.
Baldwin, Lewis W., East Orange.
N. ].
Belt. DR.. oliver, East Washington.
surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
way.
Belt, Edward NJ, son of Or. Belt.
Bohrer, Miss Corinne NJ, aged 19,
Washington.
Bond. j. A. address unknown.
Bond, S. L., address unknown.
Brown, Commodore B., compositor m
the government printing office
Butte, Mrs. Sallie ", aged 30, wife
of ]. Frank Butte, washington health
department.
Caher Mrs Mary A.
Compiler. Mrs. Samuel, Washington.
Cook. Mrs. May, washington.
Cook, infant.
Harris DR.. E. Gather, Washington.
Higbie, Henry, Brookland, D. G.
Higbie, George, aged Z.
Kelley, T. A.. Kensington, Md, en-
gineer at the United States capitol.
King, Prof. 7. j., Kensington, sta
tistician at United States naval OBJ.
servatory, Kohl Miss.
Lippold Miss Mary. 80, employe bu-
reau of engraving and printing.
Lowe, A. Lee, washington. clerk.
Merits, Theodore. New York.
McCaghey, Mrs. J. A., address un-
known.
McCaghey, age IA, her sohA
Merkland, Mrs.
Purman, Mrs.
Reeves, Miss, Takoma, d. G.
Reading. Miss Anna, Washington.
Rogers, Norman, 30, Marion, Ind.
Rupert, -. Washington, merchant.
Schrewbridge, Mrs. S. W., Washing
ton.
Shrewbridge, infant.
Wright, John. negro, Baltimore.
Cromwell Carrie.
Cobb, Lulu v.
Belt, st. Clair.
Bohrer Mary Alice. :.
DAILY, Oliver L.
Eturgeon, Mabel.
Reid, Elizabeth.
Leigh, Frederick brakeman on Fred
erick train.
Chase, Mrs Frank R.. and infant
child, South Brookland. D. c.
Eight Unidentified.
AT 8 o'clock this morning eight un-
identified bodies were at the morgue.
Coroner hewitt will begin an inquest
today. Five members of the crew of
the train causing the wreck were plac-
ed under arrest by the local police.
Officials of the Baltimore & Ohio,
who were unable to fix the responsible
ity for the disaster last night will be-
gin an investigation at Baltimore to-
day. to determine the cause of the ca
tastrophe. The scene after the acci-
Aent was sickening. Bodies had been