The Washington herald., 1919-08-25

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water. On leaving Saturday night
Train Was Awaiting Signal
Ode wathen was the man killed
when seventeen others were injured
as a result OF a rear-end collision be
tween two sections Of a Washington
I Baltimore-Atlantic City excursion
train at Elwood, N. J.. early yester-
day. Section Ten, which left Union
Station Saturday night on the Penn
/ sylvania Railroad at 1880 O'Clock.
4 crashed into Section Nine while the
latter was awaiting signals at Elwood,
a signal station eighteen miles from
Atlantic City.
o. s. Wathen. 30 years OF age.
| dairyman, Of so G street southeast.
was killed almost instantly. Wathen.
employed by the Walker-Hm Dairy.
was on his way to Atlantic City to
spend his vacation with his wife. his
half = brother - Roy Penn - and his
mother and step-father. Mr. and Mr..
H Penn. OF sos E street southeast
List of the Injured.
The injured, according to the on
ciaI bulletin issued last night by the
c, n. Markham. regional director OF
the Railroad Administration, are.
H. NJ. Milman. S years OF age. or
81 Twenty-frst street northwest hurt
about back.
L. s. Holton. y years Of age, OF
4oe Third street northeast side and
back injured
!. A. J. Graw. 3 years OF age, Of SIS
I street northeast, back and head in
tured
B. c. Lee. a6 D street northwest,
injured about knee
Mrs. Schewey. Of 2H Florida avenue
northwest, both knees bruised.
( Emily D. Reader, 3 years OF are. Of
5&2 Elm street injured about stona ch.
H. NJ. King. "a years Of age, OF
Hunter Station. Va, left leg bruised
Henry P. Rodgers. = years OF age,
OF 1913 Cohen" street northwest right
leg injured There is no Henry p.
Rodgers or Rogers in the city direc-
tory. neither is there a Cohen" street
in Washington.
{. w Doremus, or Dorems. "a years
Of age, OF l46 Quincy street north
east injured about head.
Carraway Bell . years Of age, OF
6l3 Pennsylvania avenue northwest
injured about knee.
Mrs. Jessie Brown. 1Es- street
northwest, leg bruised
Miss Edith Hanger. OF ms Fifth
street northeast injured on forehead
Erwin Killing. OF $50 Virginia avenue,
arm hurt
Mrs. Hattie Brown. $50 r street
northwest, leg hurt.
Mrs. I. w. Fitzgerald. Ilu5 T street
northwest, leg and knee injured.
Miss Jennie Cassidy. of 1918 X street
northwest reported in morning dis
patches as sustaining contusions on
body. name does not appear in Of
ficial night casualty list
Ralph Townsend. engineer OF Sec
ton Ten, injured about hips
All the injured who needed and did
not refuse hospital treatment were
conveyed TO the Atlantic City Hospital
on special train
Immediately on learning Of the 40
cident, General Manager r. L. O'Don-
mel appointed special committee Of
operating department officials to as
certain at once the cause e'of the COL
lision- This particular section OF the
railroad is equipped with automatic
block signals The committee con-
ststs OF: Superintendent f. J. Cleave.
chairman; a b Rudd. signal eng1-
neer; w. G. Coughlin. chief engineer
maintenance of way. and William El-
mer, superintendent OF the Philadel-
phia Division
Carried 700 Passenger.
The two sections carried approx
mately 100 excursionists from here.
quite q number being war workers
from the South. A party OF ten school
teachers from Memphis, Tenn. narrow
ly escaped injury. These school teach
ers have been doing war work in
, Washington.
While Section Nine was standing
! still at Elwood, the crew suddenly
noticed the headlights OF Section Ten
bearing down on them and made fran
tic efforts to signal the oncoming loco
motive, but failed
| Hundreds Of people were thrown
from their seats against the open win
dows and the backs of seats In 'front.'
of them. Women shrieked and at
temped 10 escape by jumping out OF
the windows. but were held back by
stronger arms.
Engineer Ralph Townsend, 20 years
of age, of Camden n. j.. one of the