Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-12
Wild TRAIN D|TCHED| |[U|TPO[D DIES AT 81
Five Dead and Five Missing in Prince Regent of Bavaria III
Maryland Wreck. Health for Months.
ACCIDENT NEAR GLENCOE BEL OWED BY THE PEOPLE E
Long Freight Away Fatal Ruled Result of Insanity
Sand Patch Grade. Ludwig II and
REDUCED TO MASS OF DEBRIS MODE ALWAYS PLAIN
Cared Nothing
Accommodation, Which Es- But Was
Accident by Flaggng. Ardent Huntsman.
Five Dead and Five Missing in
Maryland Wreck.
ACCIDENT NEAR GLENCOE
Long Freight Runs Away on Fatal
Sand Patch Grade.
REDUCED TO MASS OF DEBRIS
Injured Are Carried to Cumberland
on Accommodation, Which Es-
capes Accident by Flagging.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
CUMBERLAND. Md, December r.
A runaway freight train on the Pitts
burgh division of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad jumped the track one-half mile
east of Glencoe and twenty three miles
west of Cumberland, shortly after 8
O'Clock this morning. Five trainmen are
reported missing and are supposed to be
buried under the debris of two engines
and forty-four cars. Those known to be
dead under the wreckage are:
Newton Martz, thirty years old. Hynd-
man, Pa. under engine; leaves wife and
two children: Carl. Masters. brakeman,
Hyndman. Three others unidentified.
Three injured were taken out and
brought to the Allegheny Hospital They
are:
A. Speck. fireman. waynesboro. Pa.
son OF Mrs. Lillian Speck. Central Hotel.
Waynesboro; leg crushed. amputated at
the hip: severely shocked from exposure
TO the cold: condition critical
Il. HI. Smith. brakeman. Cumberland;
cut on leg and head: severely shocked
from exposure: condition critical
G. f. Ringler. conductor. Cumberland; !;
cut about head and suffering from ex-
posure; condition not serious. ell Is ex-
pected to be out in few days.
Rails Made Slippery.
The runaway occurred while snow was
flying and the thermometer lowering
about zero. The sudden change in the
weather had not been anticipated, and
the rails were made slippery. The Con-
nellsville accommodation train, which left
Cumberland at g o'clock, was tagged in
time to escape running into the wreck.
and it was run back into Cumberland as
relief train. bearing the injured. who
were given first aid at the scene of the
wreck
Passengers on the accommodation
brought back to Cumberland say Of the
wreck that a mass of twisted steel is
piled high All the telegraph poles were
torn down and 1t was d ff1cult to get in
formation as to the accident. All mis-
haps are reported on this division to the
Connellsville office. but the Cumberland
office. usually in the dark as to wrecks
on this division, had first information.
which was furnished to Connel. .sville.
Conductor Ringler. the only one of the
give connected account of the accident.
The Sand Patch grade is eighteen miles
long, and the wreck of the rDnaway
caused a roar that was heard for miles.
Some OF the trainmen who are missing
may have jumped and may appear later.
Trains Are Detoured.
i"c "0StciH -a1oAS1diu cAtc1iSiOH trdChS
between Cumberland and Sand Patch are
being used to detour eastbound Balti-
more and Ohio trains One track. east
bound. on which the runaway occurred.
is not badly blocked. and it is expected
TO soon be open. All westbound trains
VIII be sent over this track
The. Sand Patch grade has been the
scene of numerous runaways. Ten or
twelve years ago an entire freight train
was completely demolished under almost
similar conditions 1t jumped the track
q curve at Philson. not far from the
scene Of this mornings wreck. Six train
men We're then killed.