The Washington herald., 1913-09-03
CAPITAL WOMAN
KILLED in Wreck
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with Miss MsdeIra's School, in Wash.
ington.
Soon after the first report of the wreck
reached Washington. relatives and friends
OF those believed to be on the train be-
came alarmed. kilograms were sent tc
the scene Of the wreck, telephone calls
were sent to the local newspaper Offices
to hear the latest news, and some even
went to New Haven before receiving any
word to learn the fate OF those dear TO
them.
The vanguard of the survivors who live
in Washington arrived in this city aboui
o'clock last night. The runner that
several students OF the Friends Select
School, who had been camping in Maine,
Rad been injured in the wreck proved
from Washington.
Little Catherine Marriott. the thirteen
year-old daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Crit
tenden Marriott. of 1911 Twenty-fourth
Street Northwest, was the only Washing.
tonian who hSd been in the camp al
Belgrade, Me. which was under the su-
pervision of Miss Hortense Herson, OF
the Friends School Nine other girls
were returning to their homes with her
but none of these were from Washing
ton. Many girls from this city are still
az the camp and will not return for sew
eral days.
Mr. Marriott, who is an author and
who also is employed in the Geological
Survey, at once went to Wilmington
Del. to meet his daughter as soon as he
received word from her. Little Catherine
related her version of the disaster to
him.
II had just gotten out of my berth and
was dressing when the shock came" she
said. "At first I did not realize that
anything had happened. because the jar
ring was not more sever than IL another
car had been added to the train. With
nine other girls from the camp. / was
in the fifth car from the rear. Not one
Of us was injured in any way.
Three Brothers Killed.
Several boys who were returning from
a vacation spent in a camp at Kennebec,
Me-. were Brought into our car after the
wreck. remember one boy who had
three brothers killed. He was frantic
and he seemed inconsolable. He accom-
panied US to the Grand Central Station
in New York, where an even more pa
thetic scene was enacted when he N
formed his mother of the accident.
Several Of the girls and myself sug-
gested it would, be a wise plan to send
telegram to our parents to inform them
Of our safety. kilograms were sent
through the publicity bureau at the
Grand Central Station in New York, but
We were informed that there was no
time TO dispatch them"
Grave fears were entertained all dur
ing yesterday concerning the fate OF
William J. Flather. vice president of the
Riggs National Bank, who was returning
to New York after a vacation at Poland
Springs, Me. Henry Flather, cashier Of
the same bank, received a message from
New York, stating that his brother was
Miss L. N. Dixon, of the Woodward
Apartments of this city, went to New
York soon after hearing that her
brother, John W. Dixon, formerly Of this
city and now a New York attorney of
the Frisco railroad, had been injured
in the wreck. He is confined in the
Hospital in New York with
cuts and bruises about his head and
back. II was learned over the long-dis-
tance telephone that he will be in the
hospital for a week.