Show HORROR GROWS IN MAGNITUDE Fifty Three Persons Dead as the Result of the Baltimore Ohio Wreck OTHERS EXPECTED TO TOD TRAIN CREW BLAMED FOR THE DISASTER ton Dec Baltimore OhIo wreck wreak at Terra Cotta last night grows In magnitude as the hours pass ass The most c conservative estimate of the dead tonight Is in three with three I oro or of injured In the hospitals or at homes home suffering from wounds and fractUres s in the coil ion pion whIch completely demolished the two lay day coach coache s and the smoker attached to the local Fre Frederick Express No ro Ser Sev eral ot of the most seriously Injured are aro arof f to die dlo during the night and the theda da th list mD may yet et reach sixty or more Heartrending and pitiful were the tho seneR at the eil city morgue toda where hundreds oZ ot persons have flocked to as sst the tho police In the Identification or of the c dead ad Women girls anI ami even men Iron nerves shrieked sobbed and fal fainted as their relatives or frIends wore found among the corpses strewn about the tl or Coffins bask baskets ta and winding sheets were found on all Eldes Train Crew Blamed Officials of the Baltimore Ohio rail railroad rc road are conducting an investigation of the wreck n Baltimore for tor the purpose of placIng the responsibility fOr the terrIble disaster G General Superintendent Todd exonerated Milton W Phillips the tote tele telegraph graph at the Takoma block sta tin the signal station that the equip mont ment train pa passed s d before crashing Into the tho passenger r train at Terra Jerra Cotta The superintendent declared that Phillips was obeyIng Instructions he went home at clock leaving the double green sIgnal burning While making no positive charge harge Superintendent Tood intimated that the burden of the blame would fall faU upon the engineer and crew of the extra The Ih five Ive members of oC the crew who were arrested shortly after atter the are tow nw bein being held to await the result or of the I Investigation The They are Harry JT IT Hildebrand engineer Ira C land fireman Frank F con ductor Ralph brakeman and wn Wit Ham A Norris Engineer Not Talking Gazing vacantly between the Iron bars bors or of cell at the station Engineer Hildebrand Is tonJ tonight ht t too o or of emotion to any statement It will romp out at investIgation ho he said 1 f dont 18 anything for me to Ra say md and I could not say It It 1 was e h he was arrested the engineer rl made fl statement to the Associated Press lk In which he declared that It If the danger signal light was displayed at Takoma lie te filed failed to see It on account of the dense tog fog Operators Story Milton W Yo Phillips the operator who ho Is h n r at the Tenth pre said tocla today that the equipment nt train tan Ian past his danger signal at n a sneed or of from fiet fifty to sixt sixty miles an hour He says sas was a heavy foe but not h to 10 hide bide a red light He declares that he the operator at sta f tin that tho train had bad taken the block t orders His statement Is I rated b by the University station operator who says that he received the A Kennedy Kenne stationed at Tt Tn kima ma park will testify that he saw the lI light ht In Us proper place nd that drove past thA sIgnal Fred gate atc keeper keener at Takoma makes n a similar statement Some One Responsible r co W Galloway Gallowa s general meral or M t transportation or of the Baltimore Ohio railroad exonerated the company from all blame Namo and put the responsibility on the fn engineer lne r of 01 the equIpment train or the operator at Takoma block If the coro jury falls taUs to hold the engineer or the HIP block op Operator lie he said we shall shaH not consider the matter settled We re shall shaH 10 f to 0 the bottom or of the wreck This hor horrible horrible accident should have hae been avoided some ome one I is responsible and We intend to lve no stone until the has bas been fixed Government May Investigate Knapp of the interstate corn com commissIon tonight salt to the As PrO Press S that the commissIon today considered the advisability or of making a Investigation Into the caU causes R or of the wreck No decIsion has ben been lr 11 US u to when this Investigation will l 1 made madeJ J V Kelly trainmaster of the Bait more OhIo for this division Is in Wash Vash J to make Investigation t Ruse cause of the wr wreck cli Tie He declared that tl td place the at this tIme Wn an utter impossibility his 1119 police have aU all of oC the trainmen I uP he explained and until we wean w wen en an get at them ask and corn eom pare Jarp stories It will be to do de anything Flags at A 1 manifestation of oC sorrow and sym Jt for all aJl afflicted b by the Sunday night disaster at Terra Cotta the corn com commissioners missioners ordered d that flags on aU all be It at half til the funerals ot of the victims The Thi Washington stock exchange jn In view yiew of nl terrible calamity arid ana as a marl mark of rl hEld no today The funeral f C man many ot of the victims who In ard n suburbs will hi heir tomorrow The bodle o l l elf rf hi rth J will b ba forwarded to their homes homeR h hr I 1 p e B Baltimore Ohio railroad officials The railroad company campan lit is no o ox tn p In providing for tor all the thc Injured at tile hospitals |