Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-18
BY A HAIRS BREADTH
Narrow Escape of Those
Aboard CoI|iding Trains.
ENGINES ARE SCRAP IRON
Fifty Westinghouse on Way From
Baltimore in Passenger List.
THRILLING NARRATIVE TOLD
Accommodation Train Barely Misses
Fatal Annihilation-Side-
Wipe Collision.
ENGINES ARE SCRAP IRON
THRILLING NARRATIVE TOLD

About fifty Washington ianS. passengers
on Baltimore and Ohio railroad accom-
| mediation train at Bayview Junction, just
north of Baltimore, escaped with their
lives last evening by a matter of few
seconds what might have been a second
Terra Gotta" disaster. The accident hap
! pened in the midst of a terrific thunder
storm shortly after o'clock, New
York and Washington express, speeding
toward the Capital and an accommodation
train which the Washington people
were riding being in a s,de-wipe collision,
which reduced the engines of both trains
! to one conglomerate mass of scrap iron.
The accommodation train was backing
into siding, but failed to clear the main
line before the express dashed past. All
coaches Of the accommodation train
! reached the siding and safety. though only
the slight delay incident to Engineer VIII
liam Pierce of the express jamming down
his emergency brakes prevented the great
engine from blowing into the forward car
OF the local train and probably snufting
out the lives of score of passengers. Be
yond slight bruises received by being
, thrown from their seats in the shock of
the collision none of the passengers on
either train injured. All southbound
traffic the road delayed for nearly
two hours, and it was necessary to pro-
v.de other engines for both trains. The
two engine crews had particularly mar
row escapes from death serious injury.
Back From Dahlia Show.
On the local train were about $50 florists
from Baltimore and Washington. VINO had
been in Convention. Md, to attend dahlia
exhibit by Richard Vincent, jr., & Sons,
florists, of that place, the flower show being
a part of a harvest home festival and fair
in aid of one of the local churches. The
Vincent farm, which comprises about 400
its mag lificent output of daulias About
fifty local florists with Their families, were
Loft ,oUentcn thirtv minutes late and this
l. necessitated the order for a layover at
HayVleW to allow the express 10 pass
SUBSEQUENT events are plopaois oe2t ue
inetnn;ans Who Witnessed the accident at
such close range
Il was sitting in the next to the last
coach of the siX-coach train, said George
C. smarter or IAN ana streets northwest,
and l realized that something was wrong
because the men IN the sigma tower on the
opposite side of the tracks seemed sud
denl! 10 nave been beEelt OF their senses.
One of them began pushing and pulling
levers as though distracted ana the others
ran out onto the tracks and waved theIr
arms wildly in the air. Another moment
and the express came rushing past, and all
of us in the car felt slight shock, but
the front OF cur train.
Il was one of the first to leave our car,
and | was in time to the locomotive Of
the local disappear at the bottom Of the
EN- bankment in a cloud of steam. For a
few minutes all of US were afraid one or
both the engines would explode. How the
engineer and fireman escaped seems a
miracle to me. Afterward Fireman How