Show D Coi CATASTROPHE OI 01 ON F I Persons Killed and Sixty I Injured red in Collision Near I Washington i Three Cars Demolished United States District Attorney Ba Baker Baker Baker ker Among the Injured Washington Dec SO An appalling disaster occurred tonight at 7 tm nfl Ill the Baltimore Onto Ohio at Terra Cotta about three miles irom this city In which about persons Mere reio n re killed and sixty others Injured some l of them so seriously that they the will willdie die dl Tho accident was caused by b the collision of train No 66 06 due duo here hero at p m ITt from Frederick Md known as the Frederick special with a dead deadhead head lead passenger equipment special of f feight eight cars More than titan passengers were vere aboard the train The Th railway officials late tonight were una unal unable 1 l ble le to assign any cause for the col collision I I Physicians Rush to Scene As soon as the news neva or of the wreckS wreck reached r ched this city eit all aU ambulances avail available available able with as many physicians as could be assembled were sent to the scene District Attorney Baker who was in injured and who walked a mile and a quarter to a drug store in describing d hf hip experiences to a representative o othe or of orthe the Associated A ted Press said saidI I 1 was In the second car from the end coming coining from my home in Gennan German Germanton town ton I was four scats seats from the end of the tho car and just as the train left Terra Terla Cotta station the crash We Vo were carried in the wreckage for some dis distance distance tance I do not know how I got out of the wreckage Shrieking and Groaning Frank P a newspaper man manof manof manof of Frederick Md MJ who wilt wap w i slightly Injured said saidI II I 1 was In the car next to the smoker talking with a gentleman and nd his from Detroit We Ve were all standing up the lie car being crowded Suddenly we wo heard an awful noise and aUll then a crash Women began screaming and the tle next thing I knew kne I myself rolling down an n ere sonic one on Ticked J me up r I tou fou 1 I was lot ot badly hurt It was w impossible to tu describe tho the scene Women and chil children dren were shrieking and drowned drown 1 the groans ot the dying Children were er ere running about crying for their parents and mothers and fathers were rushing around trying tr to find their children Tho The dead and Injured were strewn along the track for a mile Shortly before midnight a hospital tram train that had been sent from Wash Vash Washington ington arrived at the scene sene of or the wreck reck and the tho work of taking t on the injured and the tho bodies bodle of the Ch dead was begun The unidentified dead will be betaken betaken taken to the tho morgue while the tile bodies of those tho so who have been identified will willlie LO lie convoyed conveyed to their late homes Danger Signal Was Set SetH It H has Ims been proved that the danger signal at Takoma Park a short dis distance tance from the scene of or the accident was as set when the tho train of empties j passed assed The train was running sixty miles Tidies an hour and Engineer Hildo Hilde Hildebrandt brandt stated that on account of the heavy fog he could not see the signal The train ran into the Frederick train Just as It was pulling out of or Terra Cotta where it had stopped to take on four or five passengers two of whom were ere among the killed Both Engineer Hildebrandt and the th fireman on the train of or empty empt freight I I cars were placed under arrest and brought to Washington bout 00 workmen are engaged in leasing clearing the wreckage All traffic on the division has been stopped DEAD AND INJURED List of Unfortunates Caught in the Awful Crash Washington Dec Dee 30 eight persons were killed and ami sixty injured in ina Ina Ina a collision on tho the Baltimore Ohio railroad at Terra Cotta a station about three miles from Washington A dead train ran Into the Frederick Frederi k I I local Three cars of the tile local were de demolished demolished demolished Partial List of Dead Following Is a partial list of the tho dead lary ilary 30 O 0 years Jears old employed at the tho bureau burt au of oC engraving engl this tills city I I George Higbee Highee 8 S Brookland D C I Elizabeth Pearman Takoma Park J JJ I T J A Kelly Kensington Md Ml I Dr E Garther Harris Washington I I Miss Koll KoJl Y T W V C A card was found in her pocket White girl 13 years old unidentified I I White While girl 18 unidentified I I Negro baby unidentified White baby bah o unidentified I Norman Rogers Ro er white Marion Ind Mrs J 1 J M and her hor old son sonI Edward dward I M 1 Belt white 11 H years old oW address unknown Commodore P Brown GO 60 6 years ears old address unknown tor King organist or of Wesley Veale chapel I Kensington Md lI Two negro women unidentified Two white while women about SO O 0 years cars old unidentified White woman 23 years old unidentified unidentifIed fied lied White woman 20 O years ears old alII unidentified ide fied fled White child unidentified Lee Ix Low w Washington L Ruppert Washington merchant Henry Higbee Brookland father of If George Higbee Theodore Mertz New York Mrs Irs S W r and baby bab Washington Mrs Irs SaUlI V Y Butts Washington ashington aged 30 O identified tU e at tit the thc 01 Mrs lIra A W V r Redding vho llo ho was on the tho th train is missing 1111 Colonel flobert A denon Newark O 0 Partial List of Injured An incomplete list Of oC the tho injured fol follows follows follows lows D W r Baker United States district attorney for the District of o Columbia injuries slight Harry Harr Higbee brother of f Higbee Mrs Ire rs Edith Barnes BarnOs Washington n ser Her seriously Iou Estelle Barnes daughter of C Edith Barnes broken leg seals scalp wounds I Cornelius Eckhardt Kensington Md of oC the Washington Evening Star ser seriously bushy Alfred York Woodburn Md Fred Terra Cotta Colla Henry HenrJ Krebs Terra Cotta Miss Peake P ak Braddock Va Ya seriously Mrs Catherine Catherin Hughes s this thia city cI hand broken and slightly injured about the face John Dickens Terra Cotta scalp sc lp wound and throat lacerated Quentin M r loore this city leg brok broken broken en injured Internally Mrs Moore wife of oC Quentin M 2 i Moore loore bruised John DewItt Moore loore 5 years cars old a III slightly Clarence Proctor this city cil leg crushed Proctor is an amateur ball ballplayer b ballplayer player Mrs Proctor his wife badly shaken up Clarence Clarenee Proctor this city cit seriously serious A L Chambers Chamb rs this tubs city slightly R U F Elgin this city elly slightly V Y Legge this city seriously Clinton L Moore this city Mrs D M 31 r Carr Kensington Mary lIar land and landE andE E M 1 Moore this city slightly Raymond J T Cooley seriously Louis Baldwin Washington inter internally nally lally John C Kauler both legs broken in Internally injured will die John Wright negro Baltimore will willdie willdie willdie die dieW W r C Johnson agent United Unite States Express company Washington arm broken and head injured Frank Frederick Md rd news newspaper paper man slightly slight Roy Elder Poolesville Md leg broken I on Page 2 I I I I TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE ON BALTIMORE OHIO Continued from Page 1 Edward Williams negro this city cit N X W p Washington taco face lacerated John A 1 Kundo this city leg broken brol en Fannie Austin this city C F Fagan Fasan Frederick Md Id B X N Maywood Ia wood Alexandria county count Va ValI lI C Cross address unknown B S Washington Lucille Campbell Washington Mrs A Moore loore Washington Mrs Irs D bake Braddock Heights Md Catherine Hughes Washington Jeanette Reed 12 years cars old Falls Fall Church Va Howell Chambers Washington ashington B E F Leigh brakeman of pa passenger train Washington Miss Rosie flosie Cross Seneca Sencca Md Id John C Washington Miss Anna Moore Sheridan Mr lr Miss M 1 Cooley Coole Washington Camden Frederick rederick l Md scalp wound Richard T Elgin Washington both boll legs broken and head badly injured Brakeman B Franklin leg body bod and head badly cut and crushed condition serious John Wilkins who got aboard the tho train at Terra Cotta had h d his back baek and ankle broken and head hurt Lysle lone Jone address unknown Harry Thomas wife and baby Wash Vash Washington ington n Mr Elizabeth Takoma Park Palk Lucille Comp aged ag d 6 years year ears severely s rel p Injured and may ma not live Her father escaped with a shaking up but the mother has not yet et been b en located Thomas C of Seneca se severely severely verely injured about head Roy Hoy Adler Md ld arm broken John P Martin Harpers Ferry due duC to arrive here herc on the train but has not been found Miss Purman chool teacher Washington Wash Washington WashIngton ington slightly injured Injure Her mother tas as killed Mrs A J T Cooley Coole Washington ashington arm broken Frank 1 Legg brakeman n will probably die dieB B M 1 Maywood Alexandria Al county Virginia seriously I IFred F J Johnson Washington Fred Freel Helser Heiser Terra Tetra Cotta CoUll H ThOse Thome and end wife Washington A Brown Drown no address Kennerly mayor of Ken Kensington Kensington Kensington Md H Crebs Terra Cotta Mrs Kemlo Washington Mrs N Cooley Coole Washington Dr Herron Washington fatal Thomas C Seneca Md ld in internal internal internal injuries John P Martin Harpers Harper s Ferry Feny W Va injured fatally rawn Mrs Mia John Kunlo Washington scalp wound Compiler Compher girl 5 years sears earS old ola ol both legs fractured daughter daught r of William Compiler Compher Washington ashington Mrs Compher is reported missing Two Died on Train On the tho relief train coming into this city an unknown white boy 12 years old and anel an unknown negro man 25 5 years ears old died Of the injured seven have been taken to hospital fifteen to t the United States soldiers home hospital and ind twenty have hao been brought into the city on a special train to 10 be carried to toY various Y places s for treatment District Attorney Baker Bilker despite his I Injury walked one ono and a quarter miles nUles to o Brookland and brought the first 1 news hews of the wreck Teck He HO H was as exhausted d and after medical treatment was sent to the he city George H Burgess a brother of Mrs Barnes had just put hut ut Mrs In Barnes and her daughter d on the train when the wreck occurred and was one of the tho first to join in the rescue work His sister and niece were among the first to o be found in the thO th wreckage One of the worst features t of the ca c was enacted at the thiC station st t tion of ot Terra erra Cotta Here Hero a number of pas passengers p engers w ro waiting to take the Ule train into nto the city When the collision occurred o Of these only two escaped The rest r st were either killed by being thrown un under n der dor the train or injured by flying lying pieces pl pI c cof of wreckage Fathers Southgate and Mark of St StAnthony Anthony church Brookland were at athe atthe t the he scene of or the disaster soon after t r it occurred and ministered to t the dying They The were subsequently joined J by b the priests from the th Catholic university and he the lathers fathers Operator Blamed The Tue wreck is said to have been en caused b by y the telegraph operator at Silver Springs 1 I letting two trains in on one block The engineer of the Frederick train has been arrested Train Xo No due here at 6 p m rn from Frederick Md Nd known as aE the Frederick local collided with a deadhead equipment special ial of eight cars The local loca train was a little late arriving at Terra Cotta at Gl The wreck occurred at that tha station C W Galloway superintendent s of ot trans transportation transportation transportation of or tho the Baltimore Ohio stated tonight that it was impossible yet Jet to de determine determine determine termine the cause of the wreck He said Block System Modern We Pc have on this division the tile most mos modem mod rn block system s Stem Just what occurred occurred we are unable at nt this hour to say 51 Be BP Because Because cause of the confusion incident to the col collision collision collision and of the caring for the thu dead and Injured we have hac been unable to consider the causes We 0 have not yet interrogated the operators and we do so we can cannot cannot cannot not be certain what the th situation was We 0 shall institute Immediately an inquiry into the causes of the till collision That in inquiry will begin tomorrow morning probably probably probably ably In Baltimore where all the records are Wo 0 shall make the as a rigid an ns a I possible and shall give Ive the results of i it promptly to the public through the press Dense Fog Presented The dead d ad bodies were found lying beside the track for a considerable distance The wreck occurred at 69 p m A dense fog was prevailing and made objects perceptible ble but a few feet ahead It was Impossible Impossible Impossible sible at first to determine the exact ex extent extent extent tent of the catastrophe Those passengers In the th forward f conch coach who were wera but slightly bruised hOard heard h ard the groans of or the tho dying anti and wounded and ml dill die what they the could to gire gl aid A number r of the passengers started to walk to of a mile dway Th The moment mOmert the first of l the tha survivors reached Brockland a general call wa WM sent out for ambulances Dr R H RW HW W Dr Stern and Dr J 1 1 H Brooks of Brookland responded and were taken to the jn automobiles Scene Was Horrible One member of the crew of the passenger passenger ger er train who ho hobbled into a n drun store a half hour after aft r the accident said f r cant tell how ho many people were killed It was awful I dont even een know just lust how it The freight engine went through the entire train and it seems to me inc as if every eer one wa killed ki le in the last coach and many man in the first The freight en enginE engine ginE pine must have rUn rita post a red target I cant explain the accident in any an other way Was United States Stites District Attorney D W Baker who was a passenger on the for forward forward forward ward ear oar was slightly Injured He was able abla to walk from the wreck to a drug store tore where his injuries were treat treated treated ed cd lIe He was later taken to his home in inan inan inan an automobile Rushed to the Rescue When hen the news new of the accident spread about Brookland many man citizens with their wives hastened to the scene to aid and comfort the wounded Mrs H n F Fisher of this city cit while re responding responding responding to the call caIl of a sufferer almost stumbled tumbled over oer the body bod of a child lying bing near the track The baby was vas terribly bruised but was still alive It was said that the mother of or the infant had bad been killed TIle The train runs on Sunday SUnda for forthe forthe forthe the benefit Of many Washingtonians who either have places on the line or orjo oro go jo o to their relatives It leaves Frederick erick at 4 ocIo k in the afternoon is If sched scheduled to reach Washington at 62 |