Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09
ONE DEAD, ANOTHER
HURT BY SHIFTING
PIPE ON FREIGHT
ReScuerS Work Two Hours
With Torch and Bars to
Free Men From Car.
500 PE0PLELINE B. & O.
TRACKS ON MICHIGAN AVE.
Howard Mcintyre, Colored, Dies.
W. F. Clark, White, Is in
Casualty Hospital.

One man is dead and another is in a
serious condition at Casualty Hospital
today after rescuers, working for more
than two hours with an acetylene torch
and crowbarS, eXtricated them from a
steel gondola car attached to a freight
train in which they were crushed be-
meath tons of iron pipe last night.
A crowd of approximately 500 persons
lined the tracks of the Baltimore g.
Ohio Railroad near Michigan avenue
while the rescuers, spurred on by the
cries of the entrapped men, worked to
remove the pipe. Train service was at
a standstill, and traffic on Michigan
avenue was so hopelessly damned that
police from the eighth and tenth pre-
cincts and the Traffic Bureau were
called to untangle the snarl.
The dead man is Howard Mcintyre,
Is years old, colored. of Durham, N. G.
He and William F. Clark, IS, Of Steven
son, Ala, who is suffering from posi-
BILE fractured pelvi5 and internal inju-
ries, boarded the 60-car train about two
miles north of Washington. They stood
in a small space between the pipe and
the end of the car.
Crushed by Shifting Pipe.
When the train jerked to stop near
Michigan avenue, the pipe was thrown
forward, crushing the men against the
end of the car. Their screams were
was sitting in the living room of his
home at lit Michigan avenue.
Mrs. Elizabeth Barry and Miss Marie
Shauer, who also 1--we at the Michigan
avenue address. were on the front porch.
They, too heard the mems cries.
WurZbacher ran to the railroad tracks
and, after climbing over a freight car
which blocked his path, ran along the
long line of cars until he located the
one from which the screams we're ema-
mating.
Just then the train jerked forward.
about to pull out. Wurzbacher yelled
was unable to make himself heard
above the roar of the locomotive.
BY this time the train was slowly
moving forward and Wurzbacher ran
to the locomotive and, finally succeed
ing in attracting Atkinson's attention.
begged him to stop the train. "Stop!"
he yelled. Somebody is llurtlr
Leads Crew TO Trapped Men.
The train came to a halt and Wurz-
bacher led Atkinson and the conductor,
w. G. Hale, to the car in which Clark
and Mcintyre were trapped. Mean
while the cries also had been heard by
John G. Schulz, 1905 Tenth street
northeast, and John Maddox, 1916
Thirty-first street, Mount Rainier.
They, too, hurried to the scene.
The fire rescue squad and the police
were summoned and mobile derrick
was taken to the scene from the Blu
reau of Mines and a railroad derrick
the meantime, however, the re5cuerS
had begun work with the acetylene
torch, burning through the huge pipes
in an effort to reach the men.
While a pipe just foot from Nc
Intyre's body was being burned through,
the colored man sang Alabama" The
song. which was punctuated with fire.
quent groans, died on McIntyre's lips as
he lapsed into Inconsistencies.
He was given oxygen for more than
a half-hour, while DR.. A. S. Grosbeck
of Casualty Hospital administered re-
storativeS to Clark.
Order Car Panel Cut.
Finally, Battalion Chief Charles w.
Gill and Fire Chief George w. Watson
ordered the reScuers to cut through the
rear panel Of the car. WELDING their
crowbars, the fremen broke the panel
open and continued their efforts to re-
move the men from beneath the pipe.
A plank was stretched from another
car, and Mcintyre and Clark rested
their heads on it while the rescuers
worked.
The men finally were extricated and
the ride to Casualty Hospital was be-
gun. Mcintyre, who had regained con-
seriousness, asked to be baptized, and
Father Michael of the Order of st.
Benedict. who had administered to the
men while the firemen were working to
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University for holy water and the oil
used in the sacrament of extreme
JUNCTION. The priest administered con-
ditional baptism to the colored man en-
route to the hospital.
Was on Way TO Family.
Mcintyre was placed on the operating
table, but efforts to save his life failed.
He died shortly before / o'clock this
morning. Internal injuries and loss of
blood were given as the cause of his
death. He had been badly cut about
the legs.
Clark, who said he recently was dis
charged from the Army after IS
months service in Central America,
was bound for his home in Stevenson,
where his wife, Mrs. Lena Clark, two
children and step-child awaited him.
Mcintyre was on his way to Durham
to visit his brother. The relatives of
both men were notified by police.
A third man is said to have been in
the car with Mcintyre and Clark, but
he leaped to saftey when the train
jerked to a stop.
The pipe, consignment from the
Youngstown Sheet g. Tube Co., Youngs-
town, Ohio, was being taken to the
Potomac Yards.
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