Show FAILED TO SEE SIGNAL SIGNA Engineer of Train of Empty Cars Went Ahead at Full Speed Washington Dec SO An appalling dis disaster aster resulting in the death as far as can bo be learned learn lc d at midnight of ot thirty eight persons and the Injury of f about fifty more nore occurred about 63 62 on tho tile Baltimore Ohio railroad at Terra Cotta a suburb of Washington Frederick City Md lOCAl train No 66 on the tho point of or starting from the station was wa run Into by byL b ba a L train made up of eight empty empt passenger coacheS bound from the west for Wash ington It is said that the engineer of the tha empty train rain had failed to sec S the red signal in indicating Indicating indicating that another train was wag In the block and plunged ahead on his mission of death Ran Ram and Dense Fog FogA A dense fog and a drizzling rain pre prevailed prevailed during the day da and the night ni ht and to the he Inability of the engineer of the tho rear r ar train to sec the signal showing howing that an another another other lher train was in the block is attributed the he cause of the accident The Th grade grado at the he place where the tragedy occurred is I downward and the tracks were slippery Tho The Frederick train which is i run on oni i Sundays only anI is largely largel for the accommodation accommodation accommodation dation of those who have gone Into the sUburbs on Sunday Bunda and for the tM benefit b o church hurch goers who desire to attend services In hL n Washington at night Presumably a number of the latter were on in the train tran The lie train is scheduled to reach Terra Cot Cota Cotta Cotta ta a about and was about on time ime tonight when the crash came c me People Flocked to the Scene At first to 10 the impenetrable f tr lile fo foIt tog fog It t was Impossible to determine d the extent of f the disaster and early rumors plated Dla the he number of killed at higher hl her figures than ban those tho which proved pro d later to be ac accurate curate When the news reached rach ach d Wash ash j ington people began to go 10 to Terra Cotta colta and many who had relatives killed and in injured Injured injured remained at the scene of the wreck until the special train conveyed the dea deat l land and injured to the city An earlier train that had ha been beca be n dispatched to Terra Cotta brought tho the injured whose wounds had been heen hastily dressed and they sent suit to various hospitals Three died on the tile way to the city olty and one death occurred in One of tho the hospitals Engine Men Arrested The engine of the rear train is said to be one of 01 tho the largest and latest types of passenger engines used on the road The fact of Its size probably saved saed It from total destruction the principal damage to it being bein confined to the front tr nt of the en engine engine engine gine Because of this Engineer Hilde Hildebrand Hildebrand Hildebrand brand and his hi fireman escaped Hilde Hildebrand Hiidebrand brand is said to have hare been a substitute te i cund He and his fireman was arrested No o for formal formal mal inal charges have been placed against them hem pending an Investigation The wrecked train was composed of an engine a smoking car and two day coaches The two rear coaches were re reduced reduced reduced to kindling wood and the rear of or orthe o othe the tho smoker was telescoped t So great was the impact that the local train was scattered along the track for Cor a considerable distance Fortunately the wreckage did not take fire Traffic was delayed by the accident and andt It t was after midnight before the bodies of the dead could be ho brought to the city elt city There was an entire absence of any at attempts attempts attempts tempts at theft As soon as possible the bodies were covered and laid aside to await the coming of the train sent from front the he city Victims Killed Outright From tho the appearance of the bodies it Itis is believed that nearly all 11 the victims w were re killed outright or ot died dl d within a few Cew irin in in utes after the accident Of the tile dead dla bodies some sorno were buried buri d beneath debris with the result that they were recovered difficulty with mth Dr E K 0 Bolt mit one ono of the most prominent prominent nent neat physicians physician of Washington and his Edwin 7 j years oars eld and Sinclair sons the tho passengers on 5 were wore l aged aced Edwin was killed and the father rather and the theother theother theother other son are missing It is he feared they the theare unidentified lead dead deadA leadA among the lists of oC are most remarkable escape was that of A Dr Parker of ot this city It was said that he ie was the only man among the tho passengers passengers who escaped escapE without a scratch He gers gem time Urn was In the smoking car asleep at the of the accident Officials at the Scene District Commissioners Yest est and Mc McFarland J le Farland Major d jor Sester chief of or police pollee nd I Coroner Kevitt hurried to the scene of at the wreck as ns soon as they thC heard of oftie tie the accident It IL was announced by b the coroner that an Inquest st would be 00 called callea tomorrow morning which will be adjourn adjourned ed d until Jan 2 z Z It twill will be conducted 1 here hert as Terra Cotta is with he e District u e Columbia x Terra Cotta is a stations station mt iut miles distant from the city elt h 0 The nearest point from which aK ah it itkind t f a kind could be summoned was Broo 1 i ismall small suburban town a mile from fronI scene of ot th wreck the main tion with Terra Cotta being by along the track rock or by a roundabout c ui JJ a atry try road which because of ra rail r wa was in bad condition Ambulances patr tr wagons and fire engines were hastily sun sum summoned from front Brookland and but It ft was with great difficulty difficult that th were able abl to reach resell the place |