Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-31
MANY ARE KILLED,


btESS, W
Lucille Campbell, Washington.
Mrs. A. Moose Washington.
Mrs. d. Rcake, Rraddock Heights. Nd.
Miss Janctte Reid, address unknown.
Catherine Hughes. Washington.
Howell Chambers. Washington.
Z. F. Leigh. brakeman Of passenger
train, Washington.
Miss Bessie Cross. Seneca. Nd.
John q. Thelling. Washington
Miss Anna Moore. Sheridan Nd.
Miss Cooley. Washington.
Camden Eansbcrg, Frederick, Md,
scalp wound.
Richard T. Elgin, both legs broken
and head badly injured. Washington
brakeman =. Franklin. head badly
cut and crushed. condition serious.
John wilkins. who got aboard the
train at Terracotta, had his ankle
broken and head hurt.
Icsli" Jones address unknown.
Harry Thomas. wife ana baby.
Washington.
Mrs. Elizabeth Teiran. Takoma
Park
Lucille Comp. aged years.
severely injured and may not live. Her
father escaped with 4 shaking UP. hut
the mother has not been located.
Thomas G. Homiller, Of Seneca. Md.
severely injured about head and body.
Rny Alder Of PoolcSvillc. Md, had his
right arm broken.
John F. Martha, IIarperS' Ferry. due
To arrive l,ere on the Inflated train but
has not been found.
Miss Putnam. school teacher, Wash
ington. slightly injured.
Mrs. r. W Cooley, Washington. arm
broken.
Frank Lcsg, brakeman. will prob
ably die.
Upon the relief train coming into the
city an unknown white boy about l.
years old and an unknown negro man
about 81 years old. died.
The wreck is attributed to the second
train running past the signal against 1t
in a fog.
OF tn. injured. seven have been taken
TO Freednlans hospital. l. TO the United
States Soldiers Home hospital and 20
nave been brought into the city on 4
special train over tho Baltimore & Ohio
to be carried to various hospitals.
District Attorney Baker, despite his
heel being cut OFF, walked the one and a
quarter miles to Brookland and brought
the first news of the wreck. He was
completely exhausted and after medical
treatment was sent to the city.
George II. Burgess. a brother Of Mrs
Barnes. had just put Mrs. Barnes and
her daughter on the train when the
y oil 4 ,yx-ac ,f
10 join in the rescue work. His sister
ard niece We're among the first to be
found i'll tho WreckaGe.
The wreck is said TO have been caused
By the telegraph operator At Silver
Springs letting two trans in one block.
TIL" engineer of the Frederick rain has
been arrested. Train No. &c. due here at
6.35 p NJ. from Frederick, known as the
Frederick Local. collided with a dead
head passenger equipment special OF
eight cars. The Iocal train WAS a little
late arriving at Tcrracotta at els. The
wreck occurred at that station.
c. w. Galloway, superintendent of
transportation of the Baltimore e.
Ohio stated tonight that it was i'm
possible yet to determine the cause of
the wreck. He said:
We have on this division the most
modern block system. Just what oc-
CURED We are unable at this hour to
say because Of the confusion incident
to the collision and the caring for the
lead ana injured. we have been I'M
tble to consider the question. We have
not Yet interrogatcd the operators and
until we do so we cannot decern what
tho situation was.
we shall institute an inquiry into
The cause of the collision. The in
1uiry will begin tomorrow morning
probably in Baltimore whore all the
tEain records are We shall make the
inquiry as rigid as possible and shall
give the results Of it promptly to the
public through the press"
The dead bodies were found living
beside the track for a considerable
distance. TIL" accident took place at
i.39 +. NJ. A dense fog was prevailing
md made objects ilnpcrceptable a few
feet ahead. # WAS impossible at first
to dctcrmi!i" t.lo exact extent of tho
catastrophe.
Passengers n III" forward coach who
were but slightly bruised heard the
"roans e III" dying and wounded and
dld what trey Z ,uld to give aid A num-
h"r Of the Passengers started to walk to
hfookl"hd. thrt"-fnI!:hS of n mile away
The mcmcrt III" first of the survivors
reached Broolland a general c"ll was
sent "ut for doctors and ambulanccs. DR..
H. w. Fri=Chorn. Or Storm and DIR. J.
II. Brooks Of Brookiand responded and
were taken to the scene in ambulancos
one member of tho crow of the passen-
r"r train. who hobiled into a drug store
\ half hour after the accident said:
II can't toll how mary have been kill
I'd. 1t is awful. I don't even know lust
how it happened.
The freight engine went through tho
entire train and it seems to me as if
everyone WAS killed in the last coach and
many in the first. Tho freight engine
must hay" run past a rcd target. can't
explain the accident in any other way.
| can hear the groans Of the dying ring
ing in my cara now.