The Penn's Grove record., 1907-01-04
APPALLING DI3ASTER
on B. & ]. RAILROAD
I'll CINE lows through Local Train
Near Washington.
TRACKS sTRENa WITH DEAD

shirty-eight Cie h. Wreck--.Plrce
Crowded Jars Demoiished-
bead Train Ran Fast sigma ia
Thick Fog.
Washington, Z. C.-The fatal or
for Of an. engineer in passing a
block signal light th&t he could not
see in the fog. thus letting two
trains in con tile same block to
follow each other over the same
track, was the cause Of a frightful
rear-end collision on the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad Gt Terra Gotta, ia
The outskirts Of this city.
The bodies Of thirty-aight have
been found, some oil them mutilated
beyond ali hope OF Identification. It
Is by no means certain that this
completes the list Of killed. 1t may
reach forty, Or ven fifty,
There were 200 passengers on the
wrecked train and more than forty
per cent. we're either killed or In
iured,
the oead and injured were strewn
along the track for half a mile.
sixty injured have been taken to
various hospitals.
-Four meu have been arrested in
an effort to fix the blama for the
disaster, They are Engineer Henry
Hildebrand, Of the rear train, that
caused the collision; his fireman,
Mclean; Conductor Hohlnger and
the signal man at Takoma Park.
They are locked up in the station
at Terra Gotta. Hildebrand is al
most demented. He babies Of the
wreck from which ne escaped MI
raculously.
1t was precisely tae same kind of
IN accident that zluffed out the life
cf President Samuel Spencer, of the
Southern Railroad, on his own road,
near ~LynchbuTg, thirty days go.
The identified dead are: Or. e.
Oliver Bell optician, the Farragut,
Washington, Edward NJ. Belt, white,
fourteen years old, address unknown;
Commodore 2 Brown, sixty years
old. address unknown; Dan n. Carr,
Kingston, Md. Elder 0. L. Daley,
Newark, Ohio; @. J. r. Hall, Balli-
more, Dr. Z. Gather Harris, Wash
ington; George Higbie. eight years
old, Brookland, d. 9 Henry Higbie,
Brookland, father Of George H'ghie;
4. A. Kelly, Remington, Md, Proees-
sor King, organist Wesley Chapel,
KensingtoB, Nd. Miss KolI "a Y NJ.
G. A. card was round in her pocket,
Mary Leffold, thirty years old, en-
ploye Bureau Engraving and Print
inc MoGhf- IN CT nv, j. ~. T -n,, NJ
lngtoni A. Lee Lowe, No. 1919 7
street. Washington; Mrs. j.. Nc
Caghey and aer IourteeD-year-o!d
soni Elizabeth PU7man, Takoma
Park; Norman Rogers, white, Ma
ri0u. Ind. J.. Rupert, Washington,
merchant.
The disaster occurred in a dense
fog. The wrecked train YES a local
from Frederick, Md. II was run
down By a special equipment train,
comprised of eight empty cars. Two
OF the coaches on the loca were re-
duced 10 splinters The other two
coaches, one a smoker, we're shat
tered from end to end, buC remained
on the trucks.
The local vas just pulling out OF
the Terra Gotta station, after taking
on about a dozen passengers. The
sreciat came fling alN~r at s!ytv
miles an hour and drove with ire
5istible force through the two rear
coaches.
= spur Of track runs I'D the side
'f the hill to the terra Gotta works
behind the station. There was Z fiat
CAY 1T the top If the hin, and, worG-
ing free, it a. away Gown the hitl
and crashed into the wreck. A score
Of passengers struggling to release
themselves from the vreckace we're
caught before the Hat car. which al
most cut clean through the smoking
car.
Six bodies have been taken from
under the front END off the nat car,
and the railroad officials say it will
never be known b which d the two
crashes these passengers met death.
The first new Cf the accident
came from BroOkl2nd. whore ii was
carried by United states District At
t0rney d w. Baker Although Be
kar's right h9el Was cut 1f in the
wreck, and ne was injured inler-
nally, he walked the mile ana q
quarter TO Br0okianu and over the
telephone sent in the call cor ambu-
iances. He collapsed when he was
attempting to hang ug tae receiver
and is in q serious condition Els
heel was cut off clean below tho
ankle. He stopped the flow IF blood
by binding his leg with d Six hand.
Serchief, and without waiting al the
wreck, started at once on his ter
rlble trip It is feared j may b.
necessary to amputate his loot.
Great difficulty was experienced in
giving assistance To the injured and
Ii removing thu dead OWNS To the
romoteness Of Terra Gotta, which de-
spite its comparative ne4rness TO the
capital is q rural spot without POLICE
81 postoTca The situation was made
worse by me telegraph office there
being closed tor the night. There
ere only a few houses IL the place.
and with no facilities Tor helping TIE
seriously injured ail The be. nless
taken from the wreck vera forced 70
lie IN the ground II unre,ieved
agony uGrtl Ors Ftischerl, Stern
aud Brooks arrived from Brookland
In an automobile.