Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-02
Serious Railroad Accident
Near Shenandoah Junction.
OF A LIMITED
Relief Train Sent From This CITY
to the Scene.
SAD INCIDENTS AT A HOSPITAL
About One Dozen Passengers Badly
1njured-only Very Meager In
formation obtAinable Here.

BALTIMORE. December I'm 2
wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio at
Shenandoah functions this mornins
three passengers were killed and dozen
were injured. "he dead:
w. L. F. Hoffman and his daughter
Nellie of Baltimore.
An unidentified white man.
/ 1t is not believed that any Of the in
3ured were fatally hurt The list fol-
lows:
Antonio Roscivo. Frostburg, Md very
seriously hurt about the body and legs.
Joseph Enicart, IA Grand street, Brook
lyn; serious scalp wounds.
Joseph v. Duke, 527h ID street north
east, Washington, D. c.; head cut; not
serious.
Lillian N. Hudson, g. West Lombard
street. Baltimore. Md; hurt about the
face and body; not serious.
Harold Williams, 1910 18th street
Brooklyn, N. Y; right arm and shoulder
bruised; not serious.
David Pinilla. Myersdale Pa; right
shoulder injured; not serious.
Jessie Cashen. Portland, Conn: head
and hip bruised.
A. c. Ferguson. 50 K street northeast,
Washington. D. c.; limbs bruised.
o. c. Cook and E. N. Rhodes. Mount
Royal station, Baltimore. Md; slight
scalp wounds.
Was a side-Wipe.
The combination coach and two Pull
mans were derailed, one of the latter be-
Ing badly damaged, but none of the occu-
pants was injured.
The accident occurred to the eastbound
st. Louis and New York express, which
was "side-wiped'' by the derailed cars of
freight train that was run into by an
other freight just as the express was pass
ing at high rate of speed. The locomo-
i've and nrst three cars Of the passenger
train escaped with a scraping of their
sides, but the fourth car, day coach,
was thrown from the track and turned
over, with the resultant casualties.
MI. Hoffman and his daughter who
were killed, were employed in the cashiers
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Cam
den station, this city.
Information Received Here.
Baltimore and Ohio railroad officials at
the Union station today received word of
the serious railroad wreck near shenan-
doah Junction. w. Va. at an early hour
this morning. A relief train was at once
sent there. Thomas Fitzgerald, general
manager of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, going along to superintend the work
of the wreckers and to do what he could
for the injured. From what could be
learned here Of the accident it appears
that the buckling Of a westbound freight
There are four tracks between Shenan-
doah Junction and Hobbs station, where
the wreck occurred, and the railroad Off
Gals were SURPRISED when they heard
mat an accident had occurred there.
While the local officials had practically
no definite information as to how the
accident occurred, it Is stated. they be-
ueved it was caused by the side-wipins
OF the Duauesne limited by one of the
lreisns cars; , 1t was explained that the
causes the freight trains to buckle and
Two or more cars usually leave the track.
The belief was expressed today that tie
END OF one OF the derailed freight cars
the cars OF the fast train wiped against
1t. Reports received here indicated that
Inc passengers In the day coach suf-
fered more than those in the Pullmans.
Dead and Injured.
Three dead and about one dozen seri-
ously injured was the substance of the
information received here. A passenger
from Martinsburg said there were some
sad scenes witnessed at the Kings Daueh-
ters' Hospital when the injured passengers
reached there The dead, he stated. were
also taken there and turned over to I'M
dertakers. "'
The relief train that was sent from this
city consisted Of baggage car, two day
coaches and two sleepers. No time was
lost by the crew Of the train making the
trp 70 the scene OF the accident. Pas
sengers who had not been injured were
ofougn6 mere. reaching the Union station
about $3.50 o'clock. Most of them, it is
or Philadelphia.
80 serious was the wreck that all four
tracks were obstructed, causing trains
winch followed to be detoured over the
tracks OF the Cumberland Valley railroad
oy way OF Hagerstown and Weverton
to this city.
The Cincinnati and ST. Louis and the
P1ttSburg Express trains had to be de-
toured, and they were late reaching here
Wreckers went to work as soon as they
reached the scene of the accident, how
ever, and 1t was stated this afternoon
that the distractions had been removed
WELCOME AWAITS HIM