The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-08-09
HEAD-ON COLLISION.
BLUE MOUNTAIN EXPRESS Run into
BY LIGHT ENGINE 736.
Nine Persons We're HuFt-E. 0. Rine-
holt, Engineer Of Express, is
Seriously Injured.

Carrying more than 100 passengers,
the Blue Mountain Express OF the
Western Maryland Railway, while
running 80 miles an hour on the way
to Baltimore from Hagerstown, crash
ed into pusher engine 736, westbOund,
On q single track near Chewsville,
Washington county, at 6.34 o'clock
Saturday morning.
Five passengers and nine railroad
men received injuries.
All the injured passengers live in
Hagerstown, while several Of the rail-
road men reside in Baltimore. The
passengers hurt were
Mrs. wv. J. Bemisderfer, cut about
the head.
Mrs. M. p. Dumford, wife of the
chief train dispatcher OF the Western
Maryland; nose cut and bruised about
the body.
Mrs. r. @. Gardner, cut about mouth
and head.
w. Fl. Bryson, cut about head.
Mrs. Edith Roland, cut about nose.
a majority OF the railroad men
injured live in HagerStoWn and were
taken to their homes as soon as pos
sible. The Baltimore men injured
we're
e. 0. Rineholt, 913 East Chase
street, engineer on the express; cut
about the head and scalded on both
legs. Taken to Hagerstown Hospital
| nj. f. Brooks, ID North Bentalou
street, fireman on the express; in
jured about hip and head cut. Taken
to his boarding house in Hagerstown
L. J. Lightner, baggage master on
the express; injured about chest and
hips.
George Hardesty, 933 north Patter-
son Park avenue, conductor on ex-
press; cut about head,
S. z. HammersIea, Of Hagerstown
engineer on the pusher was thrown
from the cab and bruised about the
body. He j. corsin of Detective
Harry M. Hammerslea, Of Baltimore
The Blue Mountain Express drawn
by Engine 156, left Hagerstown about
l6.15 o'clock After picking up pas
sengers at Chewsville, the engine
steamed ahead at a rapid rate. About
800 yards east of ChewSville il G
curve, with trees growing near the
tracks Rounding the curve at 90
mile clip, Engineer Rineholt was as
| tonished to see engine 1856 bearing
down on him.
RinehOlt stuck to his post, and
while he probably save the lives Of
scores, he was painfully injured. He
threw on the emergency brakes, and as
he did SO the whistle blasts OF the
two engines screeched their warnings
in unison Air brakes were clampet
CT 1u fro haf
passengers were pitched forward
over their seats, while others fell or
the floor.
Engineer Hammerslea, of the noun
tain engine, likewise threw on his
brakes, but a. few seconds later the
two big locomotives came together
with crash that was heard for {
considerable distance Both engines
left the rails, while steam spouteC
from broken pipes.
The impact threw Hammerslea anG
his fireman from their cab Engineer
Rineholt and Fireman Brooks, Of thu
express were thrown from their cal
also, the engineer being caught under
tons of coal from the tender.
For while the other railroad mel
forgot their injuries and went to thu
aid Of the engine crews. Baggage
Master Lightner, who was, in the bag
gage car, narrowly escaped being
crushed to death. He was thrown
from one end of the car to the other
but managed to escape before the Cal
was splintered. The engine, tender
and baggage car OF the express lef
the rails, but the passenger cars re
manned ON the track.
Much excitement prevailed among
the passengers, none Of whom was
seriously injured.
A few minutes after the accident
DR.. j. Mop Scott, Mayor OF Hagers
town and chief physician of the West
ern Maryland, was notified and hur.
ried to the scene in an automobile
with corps Of surgeons. Engineer
Rineholt was taken to the Hagers
town Hospital in an ambulance.
The second accident of the day ir
which the Blue Mountain Express
passengers were concerned occurred
about noon near Mount Hope Station
Train No. 1, with engine 154, which
reached the wreck at ChewsviIle tool
on board the express trains passen
gers and started with them back tc
Baltimore.
AS it was on its way and a shor
distance above Mount Hope the for
ward trucks of the tender left the
track The train was moving at G
good speed and the deraiIed tender
dragged along for couple Of hun,
dred yards before the train stopped
tore up the roadbed on both sides o.
the track.
The frightened passengers got theil
second shaking up of the day anC
lost no time in getting from the trair
when, after long series Of bumps
and jolts and jars, the disabled string
of cars came to standstill
A large number of the occupant:
of the three coaches walked down the
tracks to Mount Hope and across tc
Park Heights avenue, where they
completed their journey to Baltimore
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