The San Francisco call., 1907-01-01
8LIST OF
B. go. WRECK
CROWS
Sixty Lives We Probably
Be Awful ,lt, of
Failure to ; gnals
TRAIN CREW
FOR INVES-
ID
ZION
Interstate Connie
mission May Ia
in Placing the.
Com
Hand
Blame

IA Placing the Blame
WASHINGTON. Dec 3l.- BaIti-
more and Ohio wreck at 7 ra Gotta
last night grows in magnitI .e as the
hours pass. The most conse. ative es-
inmate Of the dead tonight is fifty
three. with three-score Of injured in
the hospitals or at their homes SUI
fering from wounds ard FRACTURES sos-
tained in the rear-end coils on which
completely demolished the no day
coaches and the smoker attg he'd to
the local Frederick express No. &c.
Several Of the most serious injured
are expected TO die during might.
and the death list may yet, leslch sixty
or more.
5eartrending and pitful we're The
scenes at the city morgue today where
hundrNds Of persons hocked to assist
the poIN.e in the identification Of the
dead. Women. girls and even MN with
iron nerves shriehed sobb. d and
tainted as their relatives or friends
were found among the hifty-two
corpses streNn about the foor Cof-
nns. wicker baskets and hdins sheets
were found at ell SIDES.
Onciais Of the BaIHmdre sno Ohio
RAILROAD ia Baltimore are ocnd ,ctsng
an Investigation Of the WRECK lsr the
81 placing ne dssnonsl ssrr
Eo.- aa IeIls0le el1eAt. rfl4f -a-
.perinteudent Toddo exoncrt ca milton
W. Phillips. the telegraph operator at
Takon.a block station. thei last signal
station that the equipment itrain passed
before crashing into II passenger
train at Terra Gotta. The superintend-
ons declared that Phillips had obeyed
instructions when be went home IT
$50 O'Clock. leaving the 4oubIe- green
signal burning. While maldng no pos
tive charge. superintendent Todde
sntimated that the burden Of the blame
Should fan upon the eRgineer and
crew Of the extra. The aive members
or the crew who were arrested short
az after the accident are being held
40 await the result Of the Official in
vest cation. They are Harry n. Hide
brand. engineer; Ira G. 1GcClellan. fire.
man; Prank r. Honme,-ef. conductor.
Ralph Rutler. brakema and william
A. Norris. baggage-ma IT,
ENGINEER DokNCAsr
Gazing vacantly between the iron
bars Of his cell at tge police station.
Engineer HIiidebrand A. tonight too fulI
OF emotion to mako ny definite state
ment
1T viii al come oht az the investi-
gs ion." he said. i aont believe that
there is anything fdr me to say. and
J could not say ii irthere was
Before he was arrested The engineer
made q statement, "A, which he declared
that if the danger signal light was dis
played At Takoma he failed to see it
on account Of the n lse fog.
Milton W PHILLIP the telegram op-
orator. who is ais lheld a prisoner at
the Tenth precincf citation. said today
that the eouipmer ltrain ran past his
danger signal at a'speed OF from fifty
70 sixty miles an hour. He says there
was a heavy fog. but not enough to
hide a REQ light
Flagman J. A. Kennedy. stationed at
Takoma Park, will testify that he saw
the signal light n its proper place, and
that Hidebranc irove past the signal.
fred Lemkum' eatekeeper at Takoma
Park, makes a stlnilar statement
c. w. Gallowat. general superintend-
cnt Of transportation Of the Baltimore
and Ohio Rail ID, exonerated the COM
pany from "a blame and put the re-
sponsiDiDfs ol tho engineer of the
equipment traia or the onerato- !, ~,
koma Park block.
II inc CORNERS jury fails to hold
the engineer or tho block operator, =
he SAID fTe Shall not consider the mat
ter sett,p- Ne shall go 10 tie bottom
Of the wrec3s This horrible accident
should have Aoeeu avoided some one
IS rasponsiois. and we intend 20 leave
no stone nniurned until the responsi-
bility has been 6xed-
sf9sClaL rNvEsrrc.Ttor
chairman Knapp Of the Interstate
fommeree fommission tonight said
that tne efmmission today considered
pne aoflaap lily of making a special in
Hestlkatit'u into the cause Of the wreck.
no oecis'pii has been reached, he said,
as - "neiA This investigation viii be
. ~ hefy trainmaster Of the Bal
t3npre Ana Ohio for this division. Is ia
N aenihs ~ "a make further inrestf-
eafi0n inf0 t'Ie ca,,se ef me ,,-r..ix rse
declared fbst ~ niare fbe ,.se-o.,si,,,l-
.tt 7time WAS an utter impossi-
The fuHt~af ~ MANY of .t. ..s<tf.,,e
who reside - u-axbine-fon ~ s,,l,-
lrbs VIII held tomorro,v-