The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-01
Sunday Nights Wreck
at Terra-COtta Grows
in Magnitude.
HEARTRENDING
SCENES AT M0RGUE
Women, Girls and Men With
Iron Nerve Sob and Faint as
Friends Are Found-The
Engineer Seems to
Have Been Re
sPonsible.

WASHINGTON. A. O.. December af-
The Baltimore and Ohio wreck az Terra
Gotta last night grows in magnitude as
tc~ hours pass. TIE most conservative
estimate ~ the dead tonight is nftr-
two WITH three scores Of injured fr the
hospitals or az their homes. suffering
FROM wounds and fractures sustained in
the rear-cnd collision which completely
demolished the two day coaches and Tho
smoker attached Orb the local Frederick
Md trash 40. So. Several " the most
serlolsly injured are expected 20 die.
and tAs death list mas reach sixty or
more.
Hesruending and piuful were the
scenes az the city morKue to-day. where
hundreds II persons nocked 30 assist the
police iu the identifcatio1 of the deal.
Wan1en. girls and even men with iron
nerves. sdnbej and tainted az their re-
iat,v~s nr friends were found among
the corpssT sJrewn about the floor
Making an Investigation
Oficials OF the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road are conducting an investigation OF
the wreck ia Baltimore fOr thc purpose
~ placing The respOnsihi'ity for the dis-
astes General Superintendent TODD *
onerated Milton W. Phillips. tho opera
tor az the Takoma block station ;he
last signal station that the equipment
train passed before crashing into the
passenger train ~ Terra Gotta The ST.
periHtendcnt declared that Phillips was
o1eying instructions nhen he went home
st $50 o'clock. leaving the double
green signal burning. Whiie making no
positive charge sup e-intendcne Todd IN
Umated that the burden of the bIarle
would fan upon the engineer and crew
of the extra The Eve members OF the
crew. who were arrested shortly after
the accident. are now being heid 80 await
the result ~ the official Investigation.
They are
Harry II, HIdehranJ. engineer. Ira O.
Mcc eliend. Fireman. Frank T. Hoffueyer
conductor; Ralph Rut,er. brakeman. and
William A. Norris. baggasemaster.
Did Not See Signal.
Gazing racanuy between he iron bars
of his cell at the police station. Enei-
neer Hiicehrand is too full of emotion
20 make any definite statement "It
VIII AT come out rr the Investigation
he said. don't believe that there Is
anything for me % say. and I couldn't
say 80 - th-Te was"
Before he was arrested the engineer
made a statement To the ASsociated
Press. ia which ha declared thar n the
danger signal light was displayed az
Iakoma he failed 20 see IL on account
~ the dense fog
Milton W Phillips the operator. who
is also held prisoner al the Tenth
equipment train ran past his danger
signal al a speed o. from fifty 10 sixty
miles
He saws there was a heavy fog. but not
enough 70 hlie red light He declares
that he Immediately notified the operator
a. Jnivers tv station that the train had
taken the block against orders His state
ment is corrooorated bv the University
station opeIe tor. who saws be- received
The message. Policeman j. T. Kennedy.
stationed az Takoma Park. VIII testify
thar he saw t.e signal light in its proper
place. and chat Hildebrand drove past the
signal Fred -emkum catekeeper at To-
koma. makes "a similar statement
The Engineer Responsible.
Q. w Galloway. general superintendent
az Transportation for the Baltimore and
OHIO Railroad eXonoFated the company
from all olatf and puts the responsibility
on the engineer ~ the equipment train
rr the operator az Takoma block If the
coroner's jury fails 20 hold the engineer
or the block operator he said. we shall
rot consider the matter settled We shall
60 10 the bottom Of rhe wreck This nor
iiole catastrophe could have been avoided
Some one Is responsible. and we intend
10 leave no stone untuned until the
responsibility has been fixed The Takonla
block system was installed two years
aso' ana is the safest known to railroad
men"
Commission May Investigate.
chairman Knapp. of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. tonight said %
the Associated Press tnat the commission
today considered the advisahnity Of maxi
ing "A special Investigation into the
causes OF the wreck no decision has
been reached, be says. as TO whom this
investigation will be made Another
member Of the commission. IN discussing
the proposed inves cation. said. "ft has
oeen suggested that We oueht to have
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