Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
SPLINTER P|ERCES
|. ENGINEERS HEART,
TRAIN IS WRECKED
Thirteen, Three of Them
Westinghouse, Injured
Near EIkton, Md.
EXPRESS SIDESWIPES
BUCKLED FREIGHT CARS
Fireman Applies Brakes, but Is
Unable to Prevent Derail-
ment.

Pierced through the heart by a
splinter flying from crumpled freight
car, Lloyd A. Rollins, 1887 G street
southeast, was killed instantly last night
as the Pennsylvania Railroad passenger
train he was plotting from Washington
to New York sideSwiped q buckled
freight train near Elkton, Nd, and left
the track, blowing up the roadbed for
100 yards and resulting in minor In
juries to Is persons, of them Wash
ingtonians.
The southbound freight train buckled
while abreast of the speeding express
at Iron Hill, smiles north of Elkton.
The derailed box car was forced into
the side of the express and ground to
splinters. The locomotive, tender and
10 Pullman cars were knocked on the
track, but did not turn over. The top,
ping PullmanS SideSwiped and dera1led
is freight cars as the expressed lurched
wildly over the ties before stopping.
Pinned to Seat by Splinter.
Rollins, who was leaning from the
locomotive window at the time OF the
impact, was pinned to his seat by the
large splinter from the freight Wnicn
pierced his heart. His fireman leaped
across his body and applied the brakes,
but he was not quick enough TO keep
the express from leaving the tracks.
The names of the injured Washing
tonians, as announced by officials OF
MRS. j. F. Kuntz, 900 block of Florida
avenue.
road
A Mrs. Kurtz, TOO block of B street.
All three were said to have been
I bruised and cut slightly.
Others injured included Harold Ep-
stein, Brooklyn, N. Y; E. H. Douvrier,
Stratford, Conn.,; Miss Frances Carbox,
New York; Mrs. Samuel Gray Boeis,
Brooklyn, N. Y; G. F. Scudder, New
Haven, Conn: L. S. Aaron, Bethlehem,
Pa: F. w. Moore, New York; Miss May
Brownwell, New York; Miss Alice Jack
son, Detroit, Mich, and James Flanner,
train dining car employe.
Senator Escapes Injury.
United States Senator Phillips Lee
GoldSborough and Galen l.. TAFT, collec-
tor of internal revenue for this district,
were on the train. They were shaken
up but not otherwise injured.
Mr.. TAFT said he and the Senator were
in one of the coaches when, about 600
yards from the Maryland-Deleware line,
they were thrown forward. There was a
grinding, ripping sound, he said, as
their car left the tracks with five other
rear coaches. Mr.. TAFT said 1t was be-
lieved one woman, apparently the most
seriously injured, had suffered broken
collarbone.
He said the roadbed was torn up for
about trains length, while the heavy
steel rails were twisted into fantastic
designs and bent like ribbons. Six
wooden freight cars of the LOG, COM
prising the train, were smashed to bits
and scattered for nearly q mile along
the tracks. The steel passenger cars
were not wrecked, but several we're bad
~ damaged. windows were knocked
out and number of the coaches were
leaning far over, but they did not topple.
Injured In Dining Car.
Most of the injured passengers were
in the dining car at the time Of the
crash and were thrown from their seats
into the aisles. They were treated on
the scene by Drs. w. T. Morrison and
j. j. Greenwall of Elkton and later sent
to Wilmington on another train.
r. P. Russell, superintendent of the
Maryland division of the road, was
supervising the work of 600 laborers
this morning as they struggled to clear
away the wreckage. All night long
they worked by the light of fires built
along the right-of-way and today the
tracks were cleared.
Rollins, who was SO years old, is
survived by his widow and two sons,
Lawrence, IA, and Arthur, 16 years
old He had been employed by the
Pennsylvania for 19 years, as fire.
man and IL as engineer.