Milford chronicle., 1907-01-04
DEAD
IN B. & 0. WRECK
Frederick Special Crashes Into Train
Of Empty Passenger Cars.
OVER SIXTY PERSONS INJURED

q OIlIo wreck at Terra Gotta grows IN
magnitude as the hours pass. The
most conservative estimate of the dead
is SO, with three scores of injured in
the hospitals or at their homes suffer
ing from wounds and fractures sus-
tanned in the rear-end collision which
completely demolished the two day
coaches and the smoker attached to
the local Frederick, Nd, express, No.
Sc. Several of the most seriously in
jured are expected to die and the death
list may yet reach 60 or more.
List of the Dead.
Fannie Austin, negro. Washington;
Lewis w. Baldwin, East Orange, N. j.;
Ollin L. Bailey, Newark, o.. Mrs. L. A.
Barnes, Terra Gotta, D. c.; DR.. E. Oil
yer Belt and two sons, Edward, aged z,
and st. Clair, aged g. Washington:
Mary A. Bohrer; J. A. and S. L. Bond,
address unknown; Commodore p.
Miss Corinne NJ. Bohrer, Washington;
Brown, Washington; Mrs. Sallie V.
Butts, Washington; Mrs. Mary A. Ca
her; Miss Nellie Cole, York, Pa; Mrs.
Frank R. Chase and infant, South
Brookland, D. c.; Lulu V. Cobb; Nettie
L. Compiler, Washington; Mrs. May
Cook and infant, Washington; Carrie
COrnwen, Washington; Miss Resale
Cross, Washington Annie CunlO
years, Washington; Oliver L. Daily;
Edward L. Garrett, Washington; Dr.
E. G. Harris, Washington; Henry Hig-
bic and 7-year-old son, George, Brook |
land, D. c.; Prof. T. J. King, Kensing- !
ton, Nd, organist Wesleyan church, |
Washington; Frederick Leigh, Wash /
ington Junction. Md; Mary Lippold, /
Brookland, d. c.; A. Lee Lowe, Wash |
ingtOn; Theodore Merit. New York; /
J. A. McCaghey, Baltimore; Minnie b. +
Merkling; Thomas Metz, Germantown,
Md; Lucy Z. Millican, Deanwood, d.
C.; Mrs. D. G.. Pearman; Miss Reeves,
Takoma, D. c.: Miss Anna w. Reading,
Washington; Elizabeth Reid; Norman
Rogers, Marion, Ind; - Rupert,
Washington; Mabel and Raymond
Sturgeon, Washington; John Wright,
Baltimore, and four unidentified.
Heartrending and pitiful were the
scenes at the city morgue, where hun
dreds of persons have hocked to as
sist the police in the Identification of
the dead. Women, girls and even men
with iron nerves shrieked, sobbed and
tainted as their relatives or friends
were found among the 80 corpses
strewn about the floor. Collins, wicker
baskets and winding sheets were found
on all sides. It was a day never to be
forgotten.
Officials Of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad are conducting an investiga-
ion of the wreck in Baltimore for the
purpose of placing the responsibility
or the terrible disaster.
General Superintendent Todd exon
rated Milton w. Phillips, the operator
It the Takoma block station, the last
ignal station that the equipment train
PASSED before crashing into the pas
enger train at Terra Gotta. The su
declares that Phillips :
vas obeying instructions when he T.
vent home at $50 o'clock, leaving the T.
double green" signal burning. While )
making no positive charge, Superin- "
andent Todd intimated that the bur i
en- Of the blame would fall upon the p
ngineer and crew of the extra. The .
We members Of the crew. who were :
rrested shortly after the accident. are .
Ow being held to await the result of "
ne official investigation. They are: u
larry H. Hildebrand, engineer; Ira c. Il
IcClelland, fireman; Frank F. Hoff d
eyer, conductor; Ralph Rutter, q
rakeman, and William A. Norris, bag
lgemaster. lU
The impetus Of the heavy freight 1t
irs behind the engine was so great ~
at it simply ground up the coach I'll
hich had been struck. Except two pc
des OF the coach, which were ripped CT
r thera is NOT q timber need in +ba is
Of the coach now more IN
an two feet in length. It was twist
], splintered and ground into bits so
lall that they could have been put
to an ordinary market basket. The TN
'eckage of the car was so ground up
at it makes a pile of twisted iron -
d wood scarcely as high as a roll ~
p desk and not more than seven or CIi'
sht feet long NC
This coach was filled with men, Wo-
N and children, there being hardly Je,'
7acant seat. As the sides were ripped
the passengers by the force of the DIT
1ck were thrown out in all direc- REL
MS. 1t was here that the greatest On
mber of killed were found. Of the
or more passengers in the car. only zen
2 woman escaped. She was thrown pas
ne 80 or more feet from the track. Dy
After blowing through the rear car
freight telescoped the next two Dra
isenger coaches, and swept the en- VIII
passenger train along with it. woo
Inc Fatal Mine Accident a Week. ~.