The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-31
Freight Hits Frederick
 Special NO CAUSE IS ASSIGNED A Dense Fog Prevented Any Consi-
 derable Vision.
 - / United States District Attorney Baker Was on Forward Car and Re- ceived Internal Injuries
 Road win Investigate.

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 Washington, Dec. 30.-An appalling disaster resulting in the death, so Tar, as can be ascertained at midnight, Of thirty-eight persons and the injury of about fifty more. occurred at 6:5V o'clock this evening on the Baltimore and Ohio ailroad at Terra Cotta, sub nrb of Washington.
 Frederick City, Md. local train No. 66 on the point of starting from the station, was run into by train made up of eight empty passenger coaches, bound from the west for Washington. It Is said that the engineer of the empty train had failed to see the red signal indicating that another train was in the block, and plunged ahead on it's mission of death. Nothing since the Foard Theatre dis aster, which occurred about fifteen years ago when a large number of gov ernment clerks were killed by the col lapse of a portion of the. building, has produced such shock as the disaster tonight. No railroad accident within a great many years in the District of Columbia has approached It in magni- kude.
 A dense fog and drizzling rain prevailed throughout the day and to- night and to the inability of the engi- neer of the rear train to see that the signal showing that another train was in the block Is attributed the cause of the accident.
 One of tho worst features of the catastrophe was enacted at the sta ton of Terra Cotto. A large number of passengers were awaiting to take the train into the city when the collis- ion occurred. Of the large number, only two escaped, the remainder were h. 1l. lcr the train or injured by flying pieces Father southgate, of Brookland, Z Yeacfed the disaster early and adminis- tered to the sufferers.
 Washington, Dec. 30.--An appalling disaster occurred tonight at [ o'clock on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Terra Gotta, about three miles from this city, in which about thirty-five persons were killed and over sixty injured, some of them so seriously that they will die.
 The accident was caused, by the col Ilsion of train number 66 due here at s.25 D. m, from Frederick, Md, known as the Frederick special with dead head passenger equipment special of eight cars. Over 200 passengers were aboard the ill-fated train. The railway ohicials late tonight were unable to assign any cause for the collision.
 As soon as the news of the wreck reached the city, all ambulances avail able with as many physicians as could be assembled were sent to the scene.
 The dead bodies were found lying beside tn track for a considerable dis tance. The wreck occurred at 6:39 D. m. A dense fog was prevailing and made objects perceptible but a few feet ahead. It was impossible at first to determine the exact extent of the catastrophe.
 Those passengers in the forward coach who were but slightly bruised heard the groans of the dying and wounded and did what they could to give aid. A number of the passengers walked to Brookland, three fourths of a mile away. The moment the first of the survivors reached Brookland a gen eral call was sent for doctors and ann balances. Dr. R. w. Frischorn, Dr. Stern, Dr. J. H. Brooks, of Brookland responded and were taken to the scene in automobiles.
 One member of the crew of the pas senger train who hobbled into a drug store half hour after the accident said.
 q can't tell how many people were killed It was awful: I don't know just how 1t happened.
 Went Through Train.
 The freight engine went through the entire train and looked to me as if everyone was killed in the last coach and many in the first. The freight engine must have run past a red target. I can't explain the accident in any other way. can hear the groans of the dying ringing in my ears now" United States District Attorney D. w Baker, who was a passenger on the for ward car, suffered internal 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.
 When the news of the accident spread about Brookland many citizens, with their wives, hastened to the scene to give their aid and comfort to the wounded.
 Mrs, H, Fl. Fisher. of this city, while responding to the call of sufferer al- most stumbled over the body of 2- year-old child lying near the track. The baby was terribly bruised but was still alive. It was said that the mother of the infant had been killed.
 The i'll fated train runs only on Sum day for the benefit of many Washing tonians who either have country places on the line or go to their relatives. It leaves Frederick at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and is scheduled to reach Washington at 6:25 o'clock.
 District Attorney Baker, who was in- jured in describing his experience said T was in the second car from the end; coming from my home in German town. I 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 1 do not know how I got out of the wreck, but Mir Darby, a groceryman from Washington, assis- led me to the drug store"
 NewspaPerman Hurt.
 Frank F. Bodlitz. a newspaper man of Frederick, Md, who was slightly in lured, in describing his experience, Baid:
 T was in the car next to the smoker