Show FAILED TO SEE SIGNAL Engineer of Train of Empty Cars Went Ahead at Full Speed Washington Dec Dee SO OAn An appalling dis disaster aster resulting in the death as far tar as can bo be learned at midnight of thirty eight persons and the Injury of about fifty more nore occurred about 6 on tho tIm Baltimore Ohio railroad at Terra Cotta a suburb of Washington Frederick City Md local train No 66 on the Ule point of starting from the station was run Into by bya b ba a train made up tip t por of eight empty empt passenger coaches coache bound from the west for Wash ash ashIngton Ington It is that the tho engineer of or the tha th empty train rain had failed to see sec s the red signal In Indicating Indicating that another train was In the block and plunged ahead on his mission of death Ram Rain and Dense Fog FogA A dens dense fog and antt a 0 drizzling rain pre pro prevailed Tailed during the day da and the night and to the he inability of t the engineer of the rear train rain to see sec the signal showing that an another another another other train was lS in the block is attributed ho tho cause causo of the accident The grado grade at atthe atthe the ho place where tho the tragedy occurred Is downward and the tracks were ere slippery Tho The Frederick train which Is run on Sundays only Is largely for lor the accommodation accommodation dation of those who have hao gone Into the suburbs on Sunday SUnda and for the benefit of o church gers who desire to attend services In n Washington at night Presumably a number of the tho latter were on the train The train Is la scheduled to reach Terra Cot Cota Cotta Cotta ta a about cl k and was about on time ime tonight when the crash came c me People Flocked to the Scene At first awing to the impenetrable log It t was Impossible to determine the extent of ot the disaster and early arh rumors placed q the he number of killed at nt higher figures figur J than ban those which proved later to be ac HC curate When the news reached ach d Wash ash ington people began to go to Terra Cotta i killed and in injured Injured and many man who had relatives jurel remained at the scene of the wreck until the special train conveyed the dead and antI injured to the tho city An earlier train I that had bean ben dispatched to Terra Cotta brought tho the injured whose wounds had liau been hastily dressed and they were sent to various vatious hospitals Three died on the tile death in way ny to the thc city and one one of tho the hospitals Engine Men Arrested The Tho engine of the tho rear lear train is said s ld to be one of the largest and latest types of passenger engines used on the road The fact of Its size probably saved it t from total tOLl destruction the principal damage to iO toIL it IL being bein confined to the tho front of the en engine engine engine gine Because of this Engineer Hilde Hildebrand brand and hl hI fireman escaped Hilde Hildebrand Hiidebrand brand is said to have been a substitute lIe He and his fireman was arrested No Ko for formal formal formal mal charges have been placed against them 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 to kindling wood and the rear of or ortho the tho smoker was telescoped So great was the impact that the local train was scattered along the track for a considerable distance Fortunately the wreckage did not take fire Traffic was delayed by b the accident and anil it was after midnight before the bodies bod Ie of the dead could be brought to the city There was an entire absence of any at attempts attempts attempts tempts at theft As soon as ns possible the thebo bodies bo ies were covered and laid aside to await the coming of ot tho the train sent from the tho city Victims Killed Outright From tho tha appearance appe ranee of the bodies it itis Is believed that nearly all nh the victims were killed outright or died within a n few min minutes minutes mm utes after the accident Of OC the dead bodies some som were buried beneath debris with the result that they the were recovered with difficulty Dr ur E u O 0 Bolt one ono of the most moat prominent prominent nent neat physicians physician of Washington ashington and his sons Bong Edwin 7 years cars eld cid and Sinclair train the passengers on 5 z were aged aced Edwin was killed and the father and the theother theother theother other son are arc missing It is feared they the lists of unidentified dead deadA are among most remarkable escape was that of Dr A Parker of ot this tIlls city elt It was said that he lie was the only onI man among tho tim passengers passengers who escaped Without a scratch He we gers gent time was In the car ear asleep at the of the accident Officials at the Scene District West It and ilc Mc McFarland rc Farland arland Major Silvester s ester chief of ot police I and und Coroner Kevitt Nevitt hurried to the scene of the wreck as ItS soon oon as IS thy hoard heard of the It was announced by b the th coroner that an Inquest would be called tomorrow morning which will be bc adjourn adjourned ed until Jan 2 It will be conducted here hero as Terra Erra Cotta Is within the District o 0 Columbia Terra Cotta is a station about miles distant from the city cil The nearest point from which aid of a kind could be summoned was Brookland small suburban town a mile from ti tL scene of or th the wreck the main f i J tion with Terra Cotta being by c along the track rack or by a roundabout c j iJ try road which bemuse because of recent re ent r ra i r rr was in bad condition Ambulances patr patri wagons sons and fire engines were hastily sum sin summoned summoned from Brookland and but it was with great difficulty difficult that t the if were wre able abl to reach the place |