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Evening star., 1953-01-15

IN. " salesman, possible right
ribs and left elbow fractures.
Alexander Russell, 62, colored,
of 100 block Fifth street NE,
sleeping car porter.
Edwin Holmes, 46, colored, club
car busboy, Pullman Dormitory.
Fifth and 7 streets NE.
Oscar johnson, 54, colored,
Baltimore. a sleeping car porter.
Fred D. Fair. IS, colored, of
800 block Hayes street NE.
Emergency Hospital.
Donald Knapp, 80. Baltimore.
sales representative: condition
serious with back injury.
William Frank, SO, of 6510
Evanston road. East Riverdale,
Md, electrician, treated and re-
leased
Joseph Connally, 81. Balti-
more, optician; injuries to leg
and face.
Thomas Hanley, q. of $500
Sargent road. Chillum. Md.
electrician; chest and back in
juries.
Joseph Taylor, q, of 1902
West Virginia avenue NE. ma
chinist; treated and released.
Mrs. Doris Salesky, %. Cum
berland, Md. bookkeeper; cut
hand. not serious.
Alfred Tawney, 81. 828 Fifty
ninth avenue, Capital Heights,
Md; shoulder injury.
Joseph Norris. 48, 831 Third
street NE, injuries to back and
arm.
Harry Seltzer, so, of Balti-
more, manager of the Huber Co.
here.
Gallinger Hospital.
Norman G.. Montgomery. 48.
colored, Severn, Md, bruised
chest, treated and released.
Mrs. Norman G. Montgomery,
43, colored. Severn, Md, possible
fractured vertebrae and leg in
juries.
Norman Montgomery, jr., S,
colored, Severn, Md, not serious.
Sibley Hospital.
Murray Adler, 81, Philadelphia,
confusion to arms and knee,
1t. Col. Walter Guletsky. 2643
Walter Reed drive, Arlington,
cut forehead.
Howard Phipps, so, 2129 Thir-
ty-fourth street Sc, injured
right leg.
Lavina Gibson, 80, Baltimore,
confusion to right knee.
Security Agency Dispensary.
Miss Christine H. Gibson, Har-
ward University, Cambridge,
Mass.
Miss Rose Mary Daele, Hunter
College, New York City.
Evening star., 1953-01-15
Wreck Due 10 Cause
Some Inconvenience,
Little Schedule Delay

Railroad men said passengers
will experience some inconven-
ience, but little delay in transit,
as a result of the wreck at Union
Station today.
There can be no doubt, how
ever, that the gaping hole in
the main concourse cannot be
repaired before inaugural Wis
itors begin to swell the regular
volume of traffic at the terminal.
Passengers are being directed to
and from trains around both
sides of the demolished floor in
the center Of the concourse. An
area about 100 feet square was
roped off on the approaches to
three tracks closed by the acci-
dent.
The central part of the waiting
room also had been roped off
temporarily because of shattered
glass in the wall separating the
waiting room from the can-
course.
Meanwhile. structural engi-
neers were examining the foun-
dations under the floor. and the
roof and walls in the damaged
section in an effort to restore
as much of the station as pos
sible to use.
A traffic man at the terminal
estimated passengers were being
delayed about half hour to-
day. although many trains are
on normal schedules.
The three tracks disl upted are
in the center of a line of 20
tracks on the main level. Two
of them, Nos. Is and 16, are the
longest in the terminal.
A spokesman for the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad said trains on the
New York Washington run are
nearly on schedule.
He said the accident will not
affect the scheduling of inaugu-
raj specials, although passengers
will have only limited use of the
station facilities.
The traffic today was being
switched to adjoining tracks
while wreck crews prepared to
remove the locomotive and cars.
Evening star., 1953-01-15

"Streetcars and buses" with ar
arrow pointing the way.
The coaches that left the track
in today's Union Station acci-
dent were sleek new jobs. Three
time-worn old ones stayed on the
rails back of them.
A man who arrived on another
line said II walked in here and
/ thought the whole station was
coming down on me-"
Accounts differed on how the
crash sounded.
"I thought a bomb went of, !"
the man in charge of the pinball
games room said. Other work.
ers in the station agreed it
sounded like a big explosion.
But persons in Offices close to
the place where the floor COL
lapsed said the noise wasn't loud
at all
II had no idea it was anything
as serious as this" said the re-
ceptionist in the Office where
the lines passenger representa-
tive works.
One of the passenger agents
said. 1T wasn't any noiser than
a steam hose breaking"
At one point. police and fire
officials on the scene were alerted
by officials to the danger of
possible explosion. Deputy Po-
lice Chief Howard v. Covell said
he was told that the big batteries
on the engine. similar to those
on submarines. could overcharge
and explode. Fire Chief Sutton
said that the initial warning
came from Navy experts on the
scene.
H. A. Johnston. who usually
works at the newsstand. which
was demolished, wasn't on duty
today because he had an ap-
pointment with a Congressman.
Mr.. Johnston was in the Of
flee of Representative Simpson.
Republican, of Pennsylvania
when he heard the news.
Evening star., 1953-01-15
Train Wreck sideIiehts
Train Wreck SideIiehts
33 Commerce Workers Offer
Blood Donations to Injured

Thirty-three Commerce De-
partment workers volunteered to
make blood donations today
after learning of the Union Sta
ton train wreck.
Mrs. Mildred Steinmetz of the
Commerce personnel depart
ment. hearing that many per-
sons had been injured. spread
the word that blood for trans
fusions might be needed. Eight
persons already had appoint
ments to give blood at the Red
Cross in the departments reg
ular blood donation program.
twenty-five others Immediately
volunteered.
Two clocks in the chamber be-
low the concourse stopped at
1888 am. when the coaches
dropped in on them.
Almost the entire refreshment
stand in the concourse was
knocked downstairs. One short
stretch of the counter remained
after the engine swept through
the concession.
The stations Western Union
branch Office did lot of busi-
ness-when it's employees finally
got back on the job.
ut was a rush alright" said
the branch manager. Mrs. Flor
ence Russo. 1901 New Hampshire
avenue NV. 1--WE all rushed out
of here as soon as the train
broke in"
Mrs. Russo said her clerks re-
layed more than 100 kilograms
from passengers. They all said
about the same thing" she said.
They all wanted to tell their
folks. I'm safe"
Brother but I'm glad that
floor dropped and this wasn't
Inauguration day." train rep
resentative said.
eff that train hadn't dropped
downstairs it would have. gone
all the way up to the Capitol"
The engine came to rest almost
directly under a sign reading,
Evening star., 1953-01-15

installations at Fort Myer and
Fort Belvoir.
Arlington County sent three
rescue squads and Fairfax County
rushed in rescue squads and am
balances.
30-40 Treated at Clinic.
Between 80 and 40 injured
were processed through the Union
Station medical clinic. then load
ed into ambulances and whisked
to Washington hospitals.
Within a half hour the con-
course was jammed with am
balances. Others waited outside
as stretchers, from them were
hustled into the station. Police
blocked off the front and side
taxicab entrances and these
spaces were used to park the
waiting ambulances.
In the concourSe, cars slanted
crazily through the crater they
had smashed IN the floor. A
spiral of smoke rose from the
wreckage toward the vaulted
roof. filling the space with
choking fumes.
Firemen and police smashed
windows of the lead car in an
effort to learn if other victims
had been unable to escape from
the wreckage. Alongside the
smoking wreck. water from an
other car splaShed noisily out of
a cracked tank.
Locomotive Crew Dazed.
The. lower concourse was a
mass of crumbled concrete,
twisted pipes and loose wires.
The engine fell through to a
point within several feet of the
stations electric generator room.
This area below the concourse is
used principally as a repair shop
for electrical equipment, includ-
ing baggage trucks.
Stretchers Uttered the upper
concourSe as their bearers stood
by, waiting for possible victims.
A nurse who volunteered her
services, going through the lead
car to check the victims. said
some persons walked away, ap-
parently in a daze.
More than an hour after the
crash danger of an explosion
was reported. Inspector Howard
V. Covell, deputy chief of police,
said he had been told that the
big batteries of the electric en-
gine-somewhat like those on
submarines-could explode.
Fire Chief Millard H. Sutton
said the warning came from
Navy experts at the station. A
Fire Department pumping truck
stood by close to the huge hole
nj the floor to meet any fire or
explosion emergency.
Wreck Crews Start Work.
Wreck crews went to work i'm
mediately to clear the wreckage
from the station. In a short time
they had punched a hole in the
arched roof of the concourse to
give wrecking cranes access to
the smashed train.
Motor drawn baggage carts
were pressed into service to haul
Evening star., 1953-01-15

send" Red Cross officials said
they Immediately rushed sup
plies to the hospital.
Prince Georges County sent
IL ambulances to the scene, and
Montgomery County sent six.
Nurses and doctors came to
Union Station from Georgetown
Hospital.
The train had been inspected
at Baltimore on a routine check
It was repeatedly equipped with
the latest speed controls, which
are supposed to halt a train ex-
ceeding certain speeds,
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Listed as injured in the Union
alton train accident were:
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tion's loudspeaker system to
warn the crowds.
Raymond A. Klopp, a clerk
in the stationmaster's Office,
said that about 10 seconds be-
fore the accident. he was called
on the direct line from Tower
K. John Feeney, who works
there, shouted excitedly over the
phone:
Runaway train coming at
you-Track 16."
Mr.. Klopp ran from his office
and saw the train coming. He
wasn't more than "three or four
carlengths" away from the train
he said. Mr.. Klopp, 40, of 215
Constitution avenue NE, ran
west along the concourse to es-
cape
Three or four others in the
stationmaster's Office fed.
Unofficial Investigations of the
crash got under way immedi-
ately.
Those in it's direct path were
able to flee.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission called a formal hear
ing for 10 am. January 26 to
learn circumstances surrounding
the crash. The ICC rushed an
investigating team to the sta
ton shortly after the wreck.
ICC Hints Formal Hearing.
w. j. Patterson, ICC commits
Sioner. and Shirley N. Mills, di-
rector of the ices Bureau of
Safety. headed the team.
II thought we. ought to look
over the situation" Senator To-
hey said. The committee he
heads handles legislation deal
ing with railroads and safety.
Their Offices are about three
blocks away.
Entire Station Shaken.
The accident happened shortly
after $3.50 am, as the electric
locomotive hauling 16. coaches
and sleepers out of Boston came
into the station. It struck with
a mighty crash that shook the
entire station. The impact
smashed a newsstand in the con-
course, picked up stanchions, a
gate and part of the station
masters Office and carried the
debris into the foyers which
separate the concourse from the
main waiting room.
Below the concrete floor
through which the engine and
two cars crashed. nine workmen
were busy with their routine
tasks. All except one fled as
the roof started to collapse.
Debris fell on one of the men,
believed to be an apprentice.
His fellow workers rushed back
and freed him.
Emergency equipment and per-
sonel poured across the Potomac
from Virginia: doctors and nurses
were dispatched from the dis
pensary at National Airport and
ambulances came in from Army
Evening star., 1953-01-15

Ofhcer, was across the aisle from
me and he few through the air
too. He was hurt.
1T was black with dust and
the air was filled with steam.
We couldn't breathe. About
seven of us were left in the
car. The end was down through
the floor and the car was tilted
so badly you could hardly walk.
I smashed a window at the lower
end to let in some air. Then
somebody outside smashed a
window at the upper end and
that let in a draft of air. Fire
men helped us out.
I'm glad I wasn't hurt badly.
Just shaken up. We just didn't
have any warning and didn't
even know we we're in the sta
ton. until the pillars began
whizzing by so fast outside the
window.
1--WE let one train go in New
York and caught this one be-
cause friend told us it was
faster. He sure was right. It
was so fast coming into that
station we almost went all the
way through it,"
ReDorter Describes Crash,
Eleanor Johnson. reporter for
the Baltimore Evening Sun. said:
I'VE were swinging into the yards
at Washington on the Federal
Express. Many on the train-I
was in the third car-were
reaching for their wraps and
luggage when all of a sudden
every one seemed to realize we
we're going too fast that near
the station.
Then the motion became
jerky, there was jolt, people
came streaming from the car
forward of us, and some one
yelled:
Brace yourself"
We jolted farther and farther,
then came to a crashing halt.
One woman screamed and fell
into the floor of the car. I was
thrown against a seat.
Everyone else seemed to re-
main calm.
Glass was flying everywhere
it got into our hair and clothes.
We were enveloped in a great
cloud of dust.
There was no stampede,
though. No rush to the doors
of our car.
The next thing I knew. we
were guided into the concourse.
Train 25 Minutes Late.
A veteran commuter said the
train left Baltimore 25 minutes
late y
Norman Diggs. 81. of 1705
North Castle street, Baltimore,
an employe of a Washington
music store, said he ordinarily
caught the train at 7:30 am,
but this morning it left at
7:55 am.
II think the engineer was try
ing to make up time" Mr.. Diggs
said. The commuter said as far
as he could tell the engineer
didn't try to check speed until
he reached Bladensburg road" ="
This point is some 2 miles
from Union Station. Shortly
later. Mr.. Diggs said. II knew
we were going to have an acci-
dent as we came around the
curve.
II told one of my fellow COM
muters how to fold himself for
ward in the seat so he would
not be hurt. / have been COM
muting between Washington and
Baltimore for 81 years, and
heard how this is done"
Evening star., 1953-01-15
RAF Plane Falls at MuIto

MALTA. Jan. Is R.-An
RAF Lancaster with a seven
man crew crashed into the sea
northwest of Malta early today,
while exercising with British
warShips. Units of the fleet
failed to sight any survivors.
Evening star., 1953-01-15
Train Wrecked and Robbed

Some 80 Karen rebels recently
blew up a passenger train 80
miles north of Rangoon, in Bur-
ma. killing five persons, and af-
terward robbed the passengers.
Evening star., 1953-12-02
Home Location Plat
Required Of Builders
Under Council Action

The Montgomery County
Council yesterday passed a
measure to require home build
ers to file location plat before
the first floor of a structure Is
placed on it's foundations.
The measure is designed to
cut down on the number Of
waivers sought by builders after
they learn their houses are not
set back far enough from prop
erty lines.
Bond Proposal Delayed.
The council delayed for week
a vote on an amendment to the
building code that would require
a bond for construction of roads
before a building permit is
granted.
Public Works Director Mason
A. Butcher came up with a re-
vised draft that appears to an
swer complaints that the orig
inal proposal would have put
small builders out of business.
Under his new proposal, a per-
formance bond would not be re-
quired for the street if the county
council holds a public hearing
on front foot assessment prof.
ects and turns down the proposal.
This puts the decision directly
in the lap of the council. The
council. in the past, has been re-
luctant to order such projects
where the majority of land
owners oppose them.
Hearing Set.
Many of the small builders, or
individuals erecting their own
homes, under an earlier pro-
vision, would have been required
to put up bond for a full street
or be barred from building
houses. if front-foot benefit prof.
ectS< were denied.
The council yesterday set a
public hearing for 8 pm. January
ii on an amendment to the fire.
arms ordinance to bar hunters in
the Maryland Washington Met
ropolitan district.
The council expects to have
ready by next Tuesday the new
Zoning ordinance. 1t probably
will be passed to become effective
January /.
Evening star., 1953-12-02
Man Held on Charge
OF Mail Box Thefts

A 24-year-old man today is
being held under $2,500 bond for
the action of the grand jury,
charged with stealing checks
from mail boxes.
Harold Lucky, colored. of the
900 block of M street NV, who
was already under $500 bond
on charge of poeketbook
snatching, according to United
States Commissioner Cyril S.
Lawrence, was seen stealing the
letters yesterday, police said.
Rose Very, 18, colored. of 730
Harvard street NV, told polica
she saw Lucky trying to open
mail boxes on house porches in
her block with a can opener.
When arrested in the block,
Lucky was carrying can opener
and two checks totaling $206.
The Nome nugget., 1953-11-11
Education Aims
Outlined by Angel
To Nome Chamber

The Chamber of Commerce OBJ
served American Education Week
by having as guest speaker Will
liam Angel, superintendent of
schools.
This annual observance is spon-
sored by the American Legion, the
Federal Office of Education, the
National Congress Of Parents and
Teachers for the purpose of in
terpreting the ideals and achieve
ments as well as the problems and
needs of our schools today.
Angel outlines the detectives Of
self-knowledge as including the
inquiring mind, knowledge of the
mother tongue, ability to read,
solve problems in counting and
calculating, having intellectual in
terests and a responsible direction
of ones life.
Other detectives include such
things as human relationships,
economic efficiency and the OBJ
jectives of civic responsibility.
Under civic responsibility he list
ed as among the things that were
taught in American schools today
such things as social justice, social
activity, social understanding, crit
ical judgment, tolerance, conser-
walton, law observance, political
The Nome nugget., 1953-11-11
Volunteer Women Agree
Hot Lunch Program
Necessity For Children

A volunteer group of women of
the community met at the Ivy
Community Center Monday after
noon to discuss the possibilities of
resuming the hot school lunches
in January.
The group, which was represen-
tative of the community, were
agreed that the program was a
necessity for the underprivileged
as we'll as those children living
some distance from the school.
Mrs. Pearse Walsh was chosen
chairman Of the volunteer group
with a committee composed of
Mrs. Paul Carlson, Mr.. Louis
Hudgins, Mrs. Steve Andersen,
Mrs. Bob Emmons and Mrs. Boyd
HARDWOOD.
This committee will meet with
the school board and other groups
and report their findings at a
later date.
The Nome nugget., 1953-11-11
Report Airlines
Pleased With
Tourist Outlook

A. Polet, who returned from
a Fairbanks meeting of the Wien
Alaska Airlines Board, reported
yesterday at the Chamber of
Commerce meeting that the air.
line is pleased with the present
outlook of the tour industry that
is shaping up for next year.
He reported that the past sea-
son has been very successful and
that the company finds much en-
thusiasm manifested to continue
the project.
In addition to facilities already
in use, it was learned that other
airlines will be cooperating and
participating with Wien's in next
years operations, which will in
crease the number of visitors dur
ing the 1854 season.
Representatives of several COM
panies will visit in Nome in the
near future to complete arrange
ments with local interests.
The Nome nugget., 1953-11-11
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the

Compiled by the
US. Dept. of Commerce Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy tonight with oc-
casional light snow. East winds
$40 mph. Lowest temperature ex-
pected tonight 5, high Thurs. 81. !.
Nome data last Is hours as of
7 am. today: High temperature
%, low 7. Max. wind 7 mph from
the east. Sunrise 1921 am, sunset
$40 pm.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high "a, low 80. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 81 in 1887,
low ID in 1908.
The Nome nugget., 1953-11-11
W AN t ADS

ICE SKATES for sale. Size 10.
Good quality, little used. S..
The Nome nugget., 1953-11-11
Home Arts Club Plans
fredericksburg Sale
OF Foods And Free Turkey

The Home Arts Club has chosen
November "a as the day for a
benefit food sale just two days
before Thanksgiving.
In addition to homemade cram
berry sauce and homemade nince-
meat as well as many other holi-
day specialties, big turkey will
be given away.
Members of the organization
will meet with Mrs. Pearse Walsh
on Tuesday, Nov II to make post
ers and complete the details for
the sale.
The Nome nugget., 1953-11-11
ALASKA AIRLINES

Arriving from Anchorage was
Sig Korptad. From Unalakleet:
Mrs. Graves johnson and infant.
Departing to Anchorage were
John Reterman, Frank Miller,
John Nuklene, Leonard Kokuluk,
M. R. Strickland.
Departing for McGrath: John
Rooney, Sigurd Krokstad. For
Unalakleet: Mrs. Art Johnson.
For Kotzebue: Mr.. and Mrs.
Wayne Yates and infant, Margar-
ct Yates, Roger Yates.
The Nome nugget., 1953-11-11
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

A caucus shall be held in the
School Gymnasium Nov. Is. 1853.
at $500 o'clock pm. under the
direction of the Nome City Coun-
Gil. for the purpose of discussing
the feasibility of the light and
power project as a utility for the
City of Nome.
Carrie M. McLain
City Clerk
Publ. Nov. IL, Is, Is, 18, 1858.
The Nome nugget., 1953-11-11
MIMI HOSPITAL

Admitted: James Savok, James
Mcnamara, Catherine Amarok.
Discharged: l.. Seetomona, Paul
Nuglene, Carl Peterson, Richard
Norbert, George Johnson.
The Nome nugget., 1953-11-11

PHOEBE CIRCLE MEETING
The Phoebe Circle will meet to-
night at 1880 al the old building.
Helen Carlson is in charge Of
devotions. An evening of sewing
and social fellowship has been
planned. Everybody is welcome.
The Nome nugget., 1953-11-11

citizenship, and devotion to demo-
cracy.
Every teacher strives, he stated,
to qualify his or her pupils to fit
themselves into the categories
mentioned.
Another guest Of the chamber
was Bernard Boyle, a newcomer
to Nome Field.
The Nome nugget., 1953-11-11

About 81 percent of the CONT
nent of Europe is farm land COM
pared to about 10 percent in North
America.
The Nome nugget., 1953-11-11
PAN AMERICAN ANYWAYS

Arriving: Mary Ann Peterson,
AL Buscio, Mrs. Margaret Yates
and three children.
Departing for Fairbanks: Lillian
Scott. For Seattle: MIR. and Mrs.
v. Dempsey, Helen Began, Don
Stewart, Marshall Phillips.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1953-08-01
THE STORY
OF 3Wp New Rspseh

If you've never been over Melville way lotely, then
perhaps this little story will invitoton to
drop in and visit Fair View Ranch and the cote
The ranch lies ostroddIe Sweeteross Creek and backs
right up against Porcupine Butte with the Crozy
Mountain range as background It's on old time COW
outfit ond except for the crossfences necessary for
the registered cows it's running on the same bosis
today.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1953-08-01
FOR SALE

We have for sale at the ronch SO coming two-yeor-old
bulls. They ore posture and carrying just enough
condition to be in the best possible health. They
priced very reasonable. You may pick load.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1953-08-01

The COW herd families include: McEieny BIockcoP,
Toon Blockcop, Bockcop, Queen Mother. Rose
mere Queen Mother K Pride Heroine. Coquette,
Kotinko. Enchontress Trojan Erico. Erico Eco
Trojan Erico Fourth Branch Blockbrd BoIlndol-
och, Rosemere Barbara McHeny Boboro, Buxom
Maid Miss Burgess and Miss Burgess.
breeding has itself such consistent
both here and elsewhere tho
holding this fomy herd botten They
include:
a
PRINCE
of Sunbea o
SKY FARM
in OF
PRINCE
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