Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-24
WRECK NEAR ARUNDEL
Train Strikes Projecting Boiler
of Steam Crane.
NAMES OF PERSONS HURT
Crash Follows Derailing of Ten
Freight Cars.
OWL LATE AND RUNNING FAST
Statement by One of the Passengers,
Who Was Covered by
the Debris.
)WL LATE AND RUNNING FAST

Six Baltimoreans were injured in thf
wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad near
Arundel station Yesterday morning II
addition to the eight VINO were brouSh'
here for hospital treatment. Others, i
is stated. were also hurt. but they die
not consider it necessary to go TO hos
pital. While the exact cause of thu
wreck will have to be determined by rail-
road officials. it is stated that the traiI
was late and was running a high rate
of speed In order to make UP lost time.
The train was due at Arundel at 1901
but. it is stated. was eleven minutes late
and was running at more than forty
miles an hour. freight wreck occur
red on the road Saturday night and a
wrecking crew was putting the deraileo
cars on the tracks and clearing ava.
the debris. The projecting boiler of
the steam crane was struck by engine
5226. which resulted in the wreck OF tno
owl train from this city.
Names of the Injured.
Among those reported injured were:
Harry L. Lambach. fireman on the pas
senger train: cut and bruised about heac
and body. and left leg injured.
]. H. Jones' brakeman. 1915 Sd street
| head cut
Dominica Floriani 1916 New Jersey ave
nue. northwest; chest and legs cut, an6
body bruised.
Richard Hawkins. colored. Bowie, Md.
right leg fractured.
Angelo Pazilio. 1915 New Jersey ave-
nue.: right leg injured and cut and bruised
about head and body.
Z. A. Dooley, 1874 r street northeast,
baggagemaster. cuts about his head.
William HeadingtOn. president of the
Headington-Pfeil Furniture Company.
Baltimore, scalp wound. cut hand and
bruised about arms and legs.
Frederick w. S. Mnsgrave. attorney,
Baltimore. laceration of hands and scalp
and bruised about body and legs.
Thomas b. Markell. Baltimore. slightly
injured by flying debris.
J. c. 4. Gilmore, assistant trainmaster,
painfully injured by being struck by piece
Of iron.
Abram W. Smith. engineer on passenger
engine, cut and bruised about head and
body.
Alien Warfield. Patuxent. slightly cut
and bruised.
J. F. Thirles. relief operator. Patuxent,
slightly cut about face.
Joseph Calvert. colored, Bowie. body
bruised and cut.
James Smith. colored, Bowie, face and
head cut and legs cut and bruised.
The victims Of the wreck who were
brought to this city. as stated in The
Sunday Star, were reported this morning
as being out Of danger. only three OF the
eight being detained at Providence and
Casualty hospitals. Although the wreck
occurred soon after midnight. it was not
until two hours later that the injured
reached this city. A patrol wagon and
hospital ambulance We're at the depot to
meet the train and convey the patients to
the hospitals. Policemen on duty at the
station knew nothing of the accident until
some of the injured appeared there.
When the engine crashed against the
steam crane and boiler the heavy iron
cut through the engine. baggage and pas
senger cars. Engineer Lambach saw the
projecting crane just In time to jump
back. Baggagemaster Dooley was hurled
across the car and injured. Mr. Musgrave
had narrow escape. having been pinned
to the floor by some OF the debris. He was
found by one of the laborers working with
the wrecking crew and rescued before he
had been seriously hurt