Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-12-31

Wright. John, negro. Baltimore, died in Hospital.
 Mrs Frank R. Chase, and infant
 child of outh Brookland, D. 0. Leigh, Frederick, of Washington
 junction, Md, brakeman on Freder-
 ick train.
 McCaghey, youngest son of J.
 A. McCaghey, Baltimore, chief clerk to General Superintendent Bent of Baltimore & Ohio.
 At 8 o'clock this morning there
 were eight unidentified bodies at the morgue.
 Scores of persons visited the morgue last night and early this
 morning to assist in the Identification
 of the unknown dead there. The total number of bodies carried into the morgue shortly after midnight was thirty-two, but several of the identified have been turned over to undertaking establishments to be pre- pared for burial. Most of the vic- tims were residents of Washington and suburbs and the majority of these will be buried to-day and to- morrow.
 Coroner Nevitt, who went to the
 scene of the wreck last night to view the bodies and to secure statements
 from the injured passengers, will em-
 panel jury and begin an inquest at
 11:30 o'clock this morning. After the jurymen are selected and the list
 of witnesses secured the inquest will
 be adjourned over until Wednesday
 and, according to the coroner, may
 last for several days.
 The members of the crew of the train causing the wreck were placed
 under arrest by the local police. They
 are Harry Hildebrand, engineer; Frank Hoffmier, conductor: J. c. Me- Cullum, fireman; Robert Rutter,
 brakeman, and w. A. Norris. bag gagemaster All were taken to the
 tenth precinct station.
 The officials of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, who were unable to fix
 the responsibility for the disaster
 last night. will begin an investigation
 at Baltimore to-day to determine its
 cause. Engineer Hildebrand and the | fireman of the dead" train, Tower Operator Phillips and all others in any way connected with the opera tion of the train will be examined. The scene after the accident was sickening. Bodies had been hurled on every side and it was after mid night before all the dead had been collected and placed on the special train to be brought to this city. A few minutes after the collision near ly all the residents of Terra Gotta, a sparsely settled village. had gathered at the scene of the disaster and begun the work of removing the dead and
 rescuing the injured from beneath the mass of debris. The workers la bored under great difficulties, for many of the injured were wedged be- meath the wreckage. and numbers of them died before they could be res cued. The many acts of heroism and self-sacrifice that were performed will never be known.
 A detachment of forty policemen were sent from Washington and nearly fifty physicians from this city and the suburbs responded to a general call, but fully three quarters of an hour had elapsed be- fore the doctors were on hand to re- lieve the injured.
 For more than three hours after the fatal crash occurred the police and citizens were sill taking bodies from under the great pile of wreck age, which was strewn for fully a quarter of a mile along the track. The rescuers took out several bodies which had been ground to pulp. As the injured were removed and while the physicians were giving them all the relief possible. Catholic priests were administering the last rites to many of the dying. Women and children joined in the work and everything possible was done to re- lieve the sufferings Or the injured.
 Lying in a critical condition on cot at Providence hospital, Frederick Leigh, a brakeman on the ill-fated passenger train. gasped out his story of the wreck:
 When we passed Kensington the danger signals were hoisted and we were told to move along cautiously" he said. When we hit Takoma the signals were still out and we left the station slowly and proceeded to Ter ra Gotta. our next stopping place. The signals were out at Terra Gotta. and we took abroad the few passen- gers and started to pull out for Washington when the train follow ing us hit the back coach and smash cd it to splinters.
 The list of dead has now reached 47. while at the various hospitals there are very many injured whose cases are hopeless. The total num- Der of injured is fifty.