The Washington times., 1912-08-08

sciousness and moved the men working
to extl'icate him to tears by his pathetic
appeals to them to hurry"
Please get me from out Of this as
Il can hold out just little longer"
Feared Boiler Explosion.
Minute after minute rolled by, and
still no relief came for the pinioned
man who. grew steadily weaker from
the loss Of blood. Finally the dangers
Of the engine boiler bursting and scald-
Ing him to death dawned on d. j.
Collins, engineer of the train, and he
summoned the Fire Department. En-
gine Company, No. II, responded and
after running line of hose from a
plug several squares away filled the
boiler with water. In the meantime
enough steel was torn from the i'm
prisoned Daniels to allow him to be
placed in an ambulance. He was taken
to the Providence Hospital, where his
condition Is serious.
I've lost an awful lot of blood, doc
lor, the injured man remarked to the
physicfans In charge of the ambulance,
as his rescuers released him from the
wreckage.
Fail to Set Brakes.
AS near as can be learned the train
which caused the accident started on
its run down grade from the bridge at
Rhode Island avenue and T. street
northeast about 6 o'clock. 1t was lined
up on a siding about a mile from the
freight depot. At the depot was an
other train of thirty cars which were
being shifted by an engine. manned by
Engineer Collins and Daniels, the fire.
man.
The runaway" train had been shifted
into the siding and 'braked" about
midnight According to the theories of
railroad men the brakemen who were
In charge of the train depended on the
air apparatus to keep the cars in their
position on the track, whereas the hand
brakes should have been used:
II is supposed that the air leaked out
during the night, releasing the brakes,
and allowed the cars to start in mo-
ton down the incline.
Daniels, who was on the coal box be-
hind the engine, shouted to his engineer
to jump. The latter hurriedly. shut off
the steam of his engine, and obeyed
Daniels then made rush to the engine
steps in an effort to get off before the
crash, but was a second late, and was
pnioned.
Valuable Records Lost.
The freight office of the Baltimore
and Ohio suffered the loss of extremely
valuable records. including receipts be-
ing lost or rendered illegible by the
smashing of the cars through the CASH
ier's department of the office.
John j. Barnes. of Sc Florida av-
enue, the young cash clerk who es-
capped injury, when the freight cars
crashed through the office. told Of his
experience.
FOX. Lee. and myself were seated
at small table about five feet from
where the freight car in the office now
lies. I was facing the east. the d.
lection from which the wreck came,
Fox was across the table facing me
and Lee in chair at my right.
'All the warning we had was the
sound of the cars crashing through.
1t happened before we knew it. There
was one. gigantic sound and then the
air became full Of bricks and a cloud
of pulveriZed plaster. lnstinctively we
all jumped to our feet. At the same
instant a long steel eye beam. one OF
the supports of the second story
which lay in place above us and a lit
tie to my left fell to the floor. All
three of us had started to the left
anG Fox came near being killed out
right because he was slow of move
Ihent. being slightly crippled. AS IL
was, the beam just graZed him, knock
ing him to the floor. and breaking
his leg and dislocating his shoulder
"Fox was stretched out on the flool