Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1915-05-20
TWELVE PERSONS INJURED, SOME
SEVERELY, In SHORT LINE WRECK
Trolley Car Crashed Into Work Engine Near Marley Station Late
Yesterday AenOOnThree AnnapOEtans Among Those Hurt
80 People On Car at the Time
COLLISION DUE TO MISTAKE IN TAKING SWITCH, IT is SAID
Charles Shearman Annapolis Liquor Dealer and Son. and Richard
Colbert COlOred Among Local People Crasr Sheaman Has
Fracture Base Of Skull Physicians But May Recover

Twelve persons, three of whom are
Annapolitans. and several others well
known here, were injured, some Sc
verely. about 4 o'cock yesterday after
non. when a car of the Maryland Elec-
trio Railways (the Annapolis Short
Line bound for Baltimore collided
! head-on with locomotive which was
switching near Marley Station.
The injured were carried to Balti-
more in ambulances and automobiles
and were taken TO the University Hos
pital. Those injured are
Charles Sherman. 80 years old, lis
Conduit street Annapolis; probable
conclusion of the brain and fractured
skull
Irwin Sherman, s years old, son Of
Charles Sherman, scraped arm and
sprained toe.
James Hanson, 40 years Cd 6S9
Portland street. Baltimore: broken hand
and bruises.
DR.. George Everhart,, assistant in
State Treasurer's Office, living at Hills
dale; broken ribs and bruised back.
Charles J. Tignall, 80 years old, AZ
German avenue Baltimore; lacerated
scalp.
Raymond c. Reik 25O1 Guilford ave-
nue., Baltimore, clerk in the Comp
troller's office. scalp wounds and
bruises.
James 0. McCosky, % years old, 4S27
Park Heights avenue, Baltimore; cut
over the eye
Samuel S. Brevard. IS years old. Ar
lington; clerk in the Treasurer's Of
fee; broken arm.
Perry " Rogers, "A years old, seaman
on the q. S. S Ohio; scalp wounds.
Richard Colbert, colored. 80 years
old. 80 Carroll alley, Annapolis; sprain-
ed shoulder and thumb.
Miss Eva Vandaniker, sos North Ere
mont avenue, Baltimore; cuts and
bruises, suffering from shock
Miss Mary Schultz. 113 East Cross
street, Baltimore ;cuts and bruises, suf-
fering from shock.
Miss vandaniter and Miss Schultz
went TO their homes on arriving at
Camden Station. The others were ia
ken to the hospital. Messrs Han
so. Tignal, Reik, and McCosky were able
to go to their homes after receiving
treatment The others remained in
the hospital.
Mr.. Shearman with his little SON
was on his way to Baltimore to meet
his wife. who was waiting at the sta
ton for them. She was overcome
when told of the accident, but later re-
covered and accompanied her husband
and son TO the hospital, where she re-
NAMED Mr.. Shearman is probably
the worst injured DR.. Everhart is
also badly hurt.
According to Mr.. McCoskey.who was
sitting near the front of the car, the
collision came without warning, just
at the end of a stretch of double track.
The locomotive. he said was appar-
enty making for the off-traek, but
could not reach it before being struck
by the car. The later, he said, was
going at the rate of about thirty miles
an hour, and. although the motorman
did all in his power to stop, he
could only succeed in lessening the
speed tribe. The brakes were applied
and the power reversed. MIR. Nc
Cosley said.
IL was not until the passenger coach
was almost on the locomotive that the
motorman noticed that the engine was
not on the switch. and he made every
effort to bring the car to a stop While
the momentum OF the car had been
considerably lessened as it neared the
locomotive. it was not enough TO bring
it TO standstill and before those who
were aboard the car could make their
escape the car and engine had crashed
together
Two men, it is said. made their es-
cape by throwing the lever which op-
crates the side doors and Jumped 10
safety. One OF the singular features
Of the collision was that none Of these
in the forward car were injured, while
those who were in the rear we're in
jured by being thrown about the car or
were cut by flying gass. The passenger
| coach was of steel.
Traffic on the line was unable to pro-
coed past The point until about $50
O'Clock last night. when the first car
left Baltimore for Annapolis.
a representative OF the railway said
that the accident was not due to the
lines system, but to failure either OF