Evening star., 1942-05-26
Trains Kill Five
In Virginia
And Maryland
Resident of Home,
Fort Meade Soldier
Are Among Victims

Three persons were killed on
railway tracks and two more in
q motorcycle-train collision in
Washington, Maryland and Vir-
ginia yesterday and today.
The dead:
William H. Harman, rs, of the
Masonic and Eastern Star Home.
Pvt. Thurman McLamb, Is, Of
Coward, S. c., stationed at Fort
Meade.
Mr.. and Mrs. James G. Garrison
Of Baltimore.
Robert Lee Simpson, 331 South
Patrick street, Alexandria, Va.
Mr.. Harman was instantly killed
shortly before 9 o'clock today, when
he was struck by the Washington
bound Baltimore g. Ohio Capitol
Limited.
Mr.. Harman, according to wit
nesses, was walking down the west
bound tracks, and stepped to the
eastbound tracks to make way for
an oncoming train. He stepped, 1t
was said, directly into the path of
the Capitol Limited. The train was
stopped about a mile from the acci-
dent.
Two Witnessed Accident.
The accident occurred in the rear
OF the $500 block of Blair road, near
the Masonic institution.
William McMullen, 6317 Blair road,
and Mrs. Frank Sauders, 6319 Blair
road, witnessed the accident from
their homes. They said Mr. Harman
apparently did not hear or see the
train which hit him.
Mr.. Harman was born in Staun-
ton, Va, and has brother, Harper,
living there. He moved to the Ma
sonic and Eastern Star Home about
eight years ago and for two years
served as night fireman for the in
stitution. He was not married and
was member of Naval Lodge, No. 4,
Of Masons in Washington.
Supt. Willard Hamilton of the
home hold police Mr.. Harman was
hard of hearing and blind in one
eye.
Pvt. McLamb was killed at the Bal
timore & Ohio station at Laurel by
q through freight train earlier this
morning.
There were no witnesses to the
accident, authorities said, but they
expressed the opinion that he had
been sitting or lying near the rails
on the station platform when
train headed for Potomac Yards
passed at 5:48 am. The engineer
n. M. Hoffman, proceeded without
knowing of the accident, railroad
officials said.
Death Held Accident.
The body was discovered by
railroad mail worker when the
Laurel station was opened at 6
am. It had been badly mangled,
DR.. James I. Boyd, Prince Georges
County medical examiner, said. He
issued a certificate of accidental
death.
Mr.. and Mrs. Garrison were
killed last night when a motor
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a Pennsylvania Railroad freight
train on highway 301 at White Plains
In Charles County, Md.
The train was being backed down
a spur line when the collision oc-
CURED, Maryland State Police at
Waldorf said They listed the en-
gineer as E. McCauley of Takoma
Park They said Mr.. Garrison was
employed at the Glenn L. Martin
airplane factory at Baltimore.
A man, tentatively identified as
Robert Lee Simpson, was killed by
a Southern Railway train at Arrow
head, near Charlottesville, Va, yes
terday, the Associated Press re-
ported.
Police believe he fell from train.
There was no identification on the
body except chauffer's license
number, which local officials said
they found was issued to Mr.. Simp-
son. His mother, at the Alexandria
address, left for Arrowhead to iden-
tify the body, Alexandria police said.