Terrible Accident 
Near Frostburg

Three Women killed and two badly injured - Hit by eastbound train No. 14 as they stepped from behind freight on westbound track - Victims are all well known people of Frostburg - Mrs. Schneider, one of the killed, had come to Frostburg for Centennial Week.

Frostburg, Md., Aug. 19-This city was shocked to its very center on yesterday evening shortly after 5 o'clock when the accident on the Western Maryland railroad ocurred that killed outright 3 well-known young women of this city, fatally injured another and the fifth escaping with slight injuries.

THE KILLED.
	Miss Bessie Williams, aged 32, Centre street.
	Miss Jennie Schneider, aged 22, 154 Maple street.
	Mrs. Oscar Schneider, age 27, Orlando, Florida, formerly Miss Carrie Wehner, of Frostburg.

THE INJURED.
	Miss Edna Raley, aged 27, fatally, Maple street.
	Miss Minnie Schneider, age 34, slightly, 154 Maple street, sister of Miss Jennie and sister-in-law of Mrs. Schneider.

THE CONDITION OF THE INJURED.

	At one o'clock the condition of Miss Schneider is favorable.  Dr. Griffith, her physician, says she will recover.
	Miss Raley is reported by the physicians at the Western Maryland Hospital as fatally hurt.  Only a miracle can save her.
	No funeral arrangements will be made until the arrival of Mr. Schneider from Orlando, Fla., and of Miss Williams' brother from Detroit, Mich.

CORONER'S VERDICT ACCIDENTAL DEATH.
	After hearing the witnesses, Olin Skidmore, Wm. Krause, J. A. Kearns, operator at the signal tower, and Geo. Griffith, witnesses to the accident, the coroner's jury rendered the following verdict:
	"That Mrs. Oscar Schneider, Miss Jennie Schneider and Miss Bessie Williams came to their deaths Sunday afternoon, August 18, 1912, on the Western Maryland railroad by being struck by B. & O. train No. 14, going east, and that said killing was accidental and that no blame is attached to Engineer Cunningham of Fireman Dean."

STORY OF THE ACCIDENT.
	The party, composed of the unfortunate ones, above mentioned, and Mr. William Krause, a friend, left their homes yesterday afternoon about 2:30 o'clock for the purpose of taking pictures.  When they reached Borden - just under the hill from this city - they walked west on the Western Maryland railroad as far as Borden Tunnel.  There they took a picture, Mr. Krause says, and then started back towards Borden.  At the cut near Tennant's they stepped aside out of the way of a passing B. & O. freight going west, taking a snapshot picture of the train as it passed.  They got up on the tracks again and were walking east when they heard the whistle of an engine and thinking it was that of the engine drawing the freight that had just passed, kept on waking, but only had proceeded a few steps when B. & O. passenger train No. 14, going east, bore down upon them, hurling the women from the track, three of them to their instant death.

SNATCHED FROM HIS GRASP.
	Mr. Krause says that as soon as he saw their danger he grabbed Miss Williams by the arm and had no sooner done so than she was snatched from his grasp and hurled thirty feet down the embankment, her head striking a rock, breaking her neck.  Mr. Krause escaped injury.  Miss Jennie Schneider was cut to pieces under the train, as was also Mrs. Oscar Schneider.  Miss Edna Raley was hurled down the embankment, sustaining a fractured skull and injuries to the upper portion of her body.  Miss Minnie Schneider escaped with minor contusions.

EXCITEMENT ON THE TRAIN.
	The horrified engineer stopped his train within its length.  The passengers knowing by the sudden stopping of the train that something had happened looked out the windows or hurriedly got off the train.  What they saw they will never forget.  Mangled women, the track spattered with blood and strewn with torn clothing.  "A sight," said one of the passengers "too awful to describe."
	The trainmen were almost palsied but ran and brought blankets and with the assistance of the passengers gathered up the mangled bodies of the three dead women and placed them in the blankets and put them upon the train, the two living women having already been carried to the train.  The train then proceeded to the Western Maryland depot, not far from the scene.  The dead were placed in ambulances and taken to the undertaking rooms of the Frostburg Furniture Co.,
	Miss Edna Raley, accompanied by Drs. Griffith and Price, remained on the train and was taken to the Western Maryland Hospital at Cumberland.
	Miss Minnie Schneider was taken to her home on Maple street.

Mrs. Gunter's Sister
	Among the passengers on the train were Mr. Roberdeau Annan, president of the First National Band, and Mr. W. R. Gunter, proprietor of the Gladstone Hotel, Mr. and Annan and Mr. Gunter alighted from the train here.  Mrs. Gunter had gone to Cumberland where she was to have met Mr. Gunter and bring him home in the family automobile.  He sent a message to Cumberland to have his wife return here and did not tell her that her sister, Mrs. Oscar Schneider, was among the dead.  When she arrived home and was told of the death of her sister she was almost prostrated.
	Mrs. Schneider's home is in Florida and she was here for the Home Coming next week, expecting her husband to join her in a few days.  His is a double affliction for Miss Jennie Schneider, one of the killed, is a sister and Miss Minnie Schneider, who was one of the injured, and one of the most popular young ladies in Frostburg, was also a sister.
	Miss Bessie Williams, one of the killed, was a daughter of Thomas Williams, and a saleslady in the Frostburg Cash Store.
	Miss Edna Raley, daughter of Mrs. Minnie Raley, and niece of the late Andrew J. Willison, one of Frostburg's most prominent citizens, and former director of the Citizens National Bank, had been a saleslady in McCroray's 5 and 10 cent store, for a long time, and is one of Frostburg's most popular young ladies.
	No tragedy has cast such a gloom over Frostburg since the drowning, several years ago in the Potomac river at Cumberland, of Charles Taylor, George Kees and Harry Shaffer, some of Frostburg's prominent young men, as that of yesterday.  The killed and the injured belong to the best families of the city.

ANOTHER GRAPHIC STORY OF TRAGEDY
	Baltimore and Ohio passenger train No. 4, eastbound coming in over the Western Maryland Railway extension near Frostburg at 5.45 o'clock this evening, ran down a party of young women who had been out taking kodak pictures, and who had just stepped off the westbound track to avoid an approaching freight train.  Three were killed, one fatally injured and another slightly injured.  The dead:
	Mrs. Oscar Schneider, of Orlando, Fla., formerly Miss Carrie Wehner of Frostburg, aged 27 years, who had come to Frostburg for Home-Coming Week.
	Miss Jennie Schneider, aged 22, daughter of Henry Schneider, a shoe merchant, at Frostburg, clerk in her father's store.
	Miss Bessie Williams, aged 32 years, daughter of Mrs. Helen Williams, clerk in the Frostburg cash Store.
	The injured:
	Miss Edna Raley, aged 27 years, daughter of Mrs. Minnis Raley, of Frostburg, head clerk in a Frostburg store, back of head crushed in and so seriously injured internally that it is thought she cannot recover.
	Miss Minnie Schneider, aged 30(?) years, sister of Jennie and sister-in-law of Mrs. Oscar Schneider, one arm badly bruised and suffering greatly from shock.

Baltimore Man with Them
	The five women and William Kraus, of Baltimore, who is in Frostburg engaged in installing the new heating service of the State Normal School Building, left Frostburg early this afternoon with a camera to take a walk to Borden tunnel, about two miles beyond the Frostburg depot.  They had enjoyed the trip, gotten a number of views and were returning home when the accident happened.  When they saw the freight train approaching they stepped over on the eastbound track, four of the women walking two-by-two in the middle of the track and Mr. Kraus and Miss Minnie Schneider along the outside cross-ties.
	The noise of the freight train drowned out the sound of the oncoming passenger train, but Kraus states they heard the whistle, which they thought was an engine blowing for the switch tower.  They paid no attention to anything but the freight train on the other track.  In a twinkling the express train was upon them and he heard the screams of the two women who were in the rear and who were first struck.  Kraus grabbed Miss Williams and pulled her partly from in front of the engine, but too late to save her life.  She was not, however, so horribly mutilated as the other two, whose remains were scattered all along the track,  Three of the women were killed outright and Miss Raley is so badly injured that she will die.

Gathered in Blankets
	The train was immediately stopped, the injured placed aboard, and Miss Raley brought to the hospital at Cumberland, while the remains of the dead were gathered up in blankets from the Pullmans, taken to the Frostburg morgue and Coroner Shaw notified.
	The accident has cast a gloom over the celebration of Home-Coming Week, which begins Sunday next, and Mrs. Schneider, who was the youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Wehner, had come on to Frostburg especially to attend the celebration, intending to return to her husband in Florida the week after the celebration.  She was a sister of Mrs. William R. Gunter, wife of the proprietor of the Gladstone Hotel,  Frostburg.
	All the young women were well known, the Misses Schneider being prominent workers in the Zion Evangelical Church, and Miss Williams and Miss Raley favorites among a number of friends,  Miss Raley being one of Frostburg's prettiest girls.
	The accident occurred on a steep embankment, between two cuts and at a point where there is a slight curve.  The heavy freight train on the westbound track was being pulled by one of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company's large engines while two others were pushing it, and made so much noise that it was impossible for those in the party to hear or know of the oncoming passenger train.
	At almost the same point today the engineer of passenger train No. 6 came near running down another party of women, and had to blow his whistle several times to prevent an accident.  The passage of the large passenger and freight trains over this new road is a distinct novelty to the people of Frostburg, and many persons walk the tracks every Sunday.
	The passenger train that struck the women was in charge of Engineer Frank Cunningham, of Pittsburgh, Conductor David Burns and Fireman Everhart Dean, both of Pittsburgh.

As Seen From The Cab
	Fireman Dean, when seen tonight gave the following account of the accident as seen from the engine cab. 
	"We were coming around a sharp curve, about one mile east of Borden telegraph office and a mile west of Frostburg, when we came upon a freight train going west.  It had two engines at the rear.  Just as the engines were passing ours we came upon the women, all five of whom stepped right off the westbound track and in front of our engine.  I saw them, but too late, I cried to Frank, the engineer, 'my God, stop her,' but it was useless; there was no possibility of stopping before we struck them.  Frank gave the engine sand and whistled, while my bell was sounding as it always does when passing another train.  I saw a man down the bank with a child in his arm, waving frantically to warn the women, but they evidently did not see him.
	"In almost an instant we struck four of the women, hitting, as I afterwards understood, the fifth one on the shoulder and throwing her down the bank.  The train passed completely over one of the women, cutting her to pieces.  Three were hit and thrown down the bank, two being instantly  killed and the other badly injured.  We brought the train to a standstill within eight car lengths of where we first saw the women."
	Frank Cunningham is a veteran in the Baltimore and Ohio service and is a very careful engineer.  His run is on trains 14 and 9.
	David L. Burns was conductor in charge of train no. 14.  He thought the train was speeding about 30 miles an hour.  Conductor Burns promptly reported the accident to Superintendent Kelly's office here.  He says as far as known, the only eye witness to the accident was Olin S. Skidmore, whom he interviewed.  It was Skidmore, carrying the child, to whom reference is made in the statement of Fireman Dean.  Mr. Skidmore, said Conductor Burns, knew the danger to the party ahead and he ran alongside the track to give warning, all the time carrying the child.  It was stated that Mr. Skidmore grabbed Miss Raley in an effort to save her, but was too late.
	Coroner Shaw went to Frostburg on the six o'clock car and after viewing the remains he was kept busy looking up the witnesses until a late hour last night.
	An inquest is now in progress.  A verdict of accidental death with no blame attached to the trainmen is anticipated.

Cumberland Woman a Sister.
	Mrs. Henry Lottig, of Cumberland, was a sister of Miss Bessie Williams.

The Coroner's Jury.
	At 2 o'clock Coroner W. H. Shaw empanelled the following jury in the morgue of the Frostburg Furniture Co., on Main street: George J. Wittig, Otto Hohing, Sr., Jno. Bradburn, D. J. Benson, Wm. Hensell, Upton Edwards, Rudolph Nickel, G. T. Porter, J. J. Mealing, Alex Davis, J. W. Shea, Vince Dolling.
	G.J. Wittig was appointed foreman and testimony is now being taken. 

SOUTH CUMBERLAND.
Railroad News, Notes and Gossip.

Bureau of the Evening Times,
426 Virginia avenue,
South Cumberland, Aug. 20

	The big railroad disaster at Frostburg on the Western Maryland continues to be the subject of comment in South Cumberland.  Many South Cumberland crews are now running over that portion of road and they say that the people of the neighborhood are constantly traveling the tracks of the company. and especially on Sundays the frequent the railroad.  The practice is both dangerous to the trainmen as well as to the people.  The appaling accident of Sunday it is believed   will have at least a moral effect upon the people of that neighborhood and that they will take to the country roads instead of the railroad tracks for their pastime.  The fact that so many people are anxious to get pictures and views of the new road has occasioned the many visitors along the line.  The new equipment of the road is up to date and trains move rapidly under the schedule.  Many are of the impression that but few trains are passing frequently.  The road is now in excellent condition and hood speed is being made.  The Western Maryland railroad men are learning its grades and the Baltimore & Ohio men are also familiarizing themselves with it.

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Centers Contiguous to Cumberland

FROSTBURG

Bureau of the Evening Times
Frostburg, Md., Aug 20.

	It will be many days before Frostburg recovers from the shock it received Sunday evening when three popular young women of the city met their terrible deaths while walking on the Western Maryland and two other young women were injured, one of whom is hovering between life and death in the Western Maryland hospital at Cumber-
land.  The particulars of this awful accident were told in yesterday's Evening Times and need not be repeated here.  The bodies of the dead women, Miss Bessie Williams, aged 32 years; Miss Jennie Schneider, aged 22, daughter of Henry N. Schneider, lie at their respective homes, while the remains of Mrs. Carrie Schneider, nee Wehner, wife of Oscar Schneider, of Orlando, Florida, rest beside those of her sister-in-law, Miss Jennie Schneider, at the family home , 154 Maple street.  No arrangements for the funerals will be made until the arrival of Mr. Schneider, from Florida, and a brother of Miss Williams, from Detroit, Michigan.   Miss Williams was a sister of Mrs. B. A. Wilson, of Cumberland, whose husband is a B. & O. passenger brakeman, running between Cumber-land and Grafton.
	The families of the unfortunate women are grief-stricken.  Mrs. Minnie Raley, who is an aged lady, is so prostrated that grave fears are entertained for her should death deprive her of her daughter, her main dependence.  The physicians at the Western Maryland Hospital say Miss Raley's chances for recovery are on out of a hundred.  Her skull was crushed and brain exposed.  She is still unconscious and reports from the hospital this morning were to the effect  it requires the presence of two nurses to keep her in bed.
	Miss Schneider was resting fairly comfortably this morning.  She is suffering principally from the terrible shock she received and grieving over the death of her sister and friend, Miss Williams, and expresses great anxiety over the result of the injuries to Miss Raley. 

The Inquest.
	While there could be but one verdict rendered by Coroner William H. Shaw's jury of inquest held yesterday afternoon, that of accidental killing, there was great public interest manifested in the proceedings, as evidenced by the crowds that gathered about the Frostburg Undertaking and Furniture Co.'s establishment , where the inquest was held.  The evidence of the four witnesses, Olin Skidmore, William Krause, J. A. Kearns, operator at the tower, and George Griffith, was about the same as statements made by them previously.  Mr. Skidmore told how he ran to warn the party of their danger.  Mr. Krause the only one of the party who escaped uninjured, repeated his statement given in yesterday's Times, differing only in pathetic details.  Oper-ator Kearns related that he had given warning to the party, laying particular stress upon his efforts to give block signals to the approaching fatal train No. 14.  Mr. Griffith as a part of his testimony handed Coroner Shaw the mesh bag belonging to Miss Edna Raley.
	It was a solemn proceeding and perhaps the most awful in its details it has ever been the duty of a coroner's jury in Allegany county to listen to.
	The funeral of Miss Bessie Williams will be held from the home of her mother, Mrs. Helen Williams, Centre street, Frostburg, at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.  Services will be conducted by the Rev. H.N. Beall, pastor of the Presbyterian Church.  Interment will be made in Allegany cemetery.
	That of Mrs. Oscar Schneider and Miss Jennie Schneider will be held from the residence of Mr. Henry N. Schneider, Maple street, Frostburg, tomorrow at 2 o'clock.  Services will be conducted by the Rev. G. E. Metzger, pastor of Salem Reformed church.  The remains will be taken to the church and interment made in Allegany cemetery.  This will be one combined funeral and service.

Centers Contiguous to Cumberland

FROSTBURG

Bureau of the Evening Times
Shea Building, Phone 113k
Frostburg, Md., Aug 21.

	This has been a day of funerals and one of the saddest days Frostburg has ever known.  Three young women were laid to rest, the victims of the tragedy  on the Western Maryland railroad last Sunday afternoon, when B. & O. passenger train No. 14, going east crushed the life out of Miss Bessie Williams, daughter of Mrs. Helen Williams, of this city, Miss Jennie Schneider, daughter of Mr. Henry N. Schneider, also of Frostburg, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Oscar Schneider, of Orlando, Florida.
	The double funeral of Miss Schneider and Mrs. Schneider took place from the family residence on Maple street at 2 o'clock this afternoon.  The remains were taken to Salem Rreformed church, where simple services were held, conducted by Rev. Hauser, who confirmed both Miss Schneider and Mrs. Schneider, assisted by the pastor Rev. G. W. Metzger, Rev. Bear and Rev. Heansell.  The edifice was filled with the relatives and friends of the unfortunate women.  Many beautiful floral tributes were banked about the caskets.  An audible sorrow filled the little house of worship.  It was a time of grief and tears.  As the cortege, preceded by the two hearses, passed through the streets towards the cemetery, the sidewalks were lined with a sorrow stricken public.  The inter-ments were made in Allegany cemetery.
	The following were the pall-bearers for Miss Schneider:  August H. Eichhorn, August E. Eichhorn, Oscar Eichhorn, Russell Eichhorn, Walter Eichhorn, Melvin Eichhorn, Allen Hansel, Fred Domdara, Jr., all cousins of Miss Schneider.  Flower bearers: George E. Kemp, Kean Hadskens, Lawrence Feldmann, George Farley, William Hines(?), Anthony Wiesenborn.
	Both ladies belonged to the same Sunday school class, with Miss Lillie Wasmuth as teacher.  They were also members of the same mission class.
	The pallbearers for Mrs. Oscar Schneider were: George Jeffries, McK. Hockings, George Stern, Olin Gunnett, Chas. Stewart, George Wittig.  Flowerbearers were: Conrad Hohing, Otto Hohing, Jr., Anthony Weisenborn, Lewis Habel, George Kroup and Geo. Atkinson(?).

Centers Contiguous to Cumberland

FROSTBURG

The Shock Telling on Him

	Mr. Henry N. Schneider, the venerable shoemaker and one of Frostburg's most highly esteemed citizens, whose daughter and daughter-in-law were killed in the terrible accident which occurred near here about a month ago on the Western Maryland tracks by the B. & O. passenger train No. 14, has not been able to recover from the shock.  His condition became so alarming that he has been taken to Baltimore, accompanied by Rev. George E. Metzger, Pastor of Salem Reformed Church, where he will receive treatment under the care of a specialist.  Mr. Schneider is past 60 years of age.  Miss Minnie Schneider, another daughter, who was slightly injured in the accident, has entirely recovered, but still feels the effects of the shock of that awful tragedy in which four prominent young women lost their lives.
THE EVENING TIMES - Cumberland, Maryland
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1912

Death of H. N. Schneider

	Mr. Henry N. Schneider, the venerable shoemaker and one of Frostburg's most highly esteemed citizens died at his home here this morning at 2.30 o'clock after an illness dating back to the death of his daughter, Mrs. Oscar Schneider, who was killed in the accident on the Western Maryland track by B. & O. passenger train No. 14, last month.
	The terrible shock so affected Mr. Schneider that he was taken a few days ago to the Western Maryland Hospital at Cumberland, and, getting no better, was taken back to his home here last evening,  After arriving here he was being given a bath and shortly afterward expired.  He was about  6? yearts of age.
	Funeral arrangements will not be made until the arrrival of his son, Mr. Oscar Schneider, from Orlando, Fla.
THE EVENING TIMES - Cumberland, Maryland
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1912

Funeral of Mr. Schneider

	The funeral of Mr. Harry N. Schneider, who died at the Western Maryland hospital yesterday morning will take place Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock with service in Salem Reformed church of which deceased was a member.  Rev. George E. Metzger, pastor, officiating.  Interment will be in Allegany cemetery.
THE EVENING TIMES - Cumberland, Maryland
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1912

Mr. Schneider Laid To Rest

	The tragic incidents which hastened the death of Mr. Harry N. Schneider, one of Frostburg's most highly esteemed citizens, which occurred last Thursday morning, made his funeral yesterday afternoon one on the saddest that has ever occurred un Frostburg.  Mr. Schneider's illness, while of more than a year's duration, did not become serious until a month ago, when his daughter, Miss Minnie Schneider, and daughter-in-law, Mrs Oscar Schneider, met their awful deaths on the Western Maryland railroad tracks by being run over by B. & O. passenger train No. 14.  The shock of the loss of his daughter and daughter-in-law so affected Mr. Schneider that his malady which was cancer of the liver, made quick and sure inroads upon his weakened condition.  With the hope of being benefited he was taken last Monday to  Baltimore to receive special treatment, but his condition was found to be so serious that he was brought home on Wednesday afternoon, dying ten hours later.
	Mr. Schneider was a native of Germany and was 67 years old.  He came to Frostburg at the age of 12 years and after working in the mines for some years, became engaged in the shoe business in which he was successful, as his fine store fully bears evidence.  He was a member of Salem Reformed church, from which the funeral took place, the solemn services being conducted by the pastor Rev. Geo. E. Metzger.  The church was crowded with sorrowing friends.  Many beautiful floral tributes were banked about the casket.
	He is survived by his wife and the following children: Mr. John Schneider, of West Virginia; Mr. Conrad F. Schneider, of Palmyra, Pa., Mr. Oscar Schneider of Orlando, Florida, Messrs. Alvin and Melvin Schneider and Mrs. Anna Miller, of this place.  The interment was in Allegany cemetery, where were interred a month ago his daughter and daughter-in-law.
	The pallbearers were: Messrs. Henry Morgan, Alfred Thomas, James D. Williams and William Conrad of the Shield of Honor, Messrs. August Arnold, William Glodfeyt, Jacob Pressman and George Mayer.  
	The flowerbearers were Edward L. Betz, John Kemp, Conrad Lapp, Sr., Conrad Semler, Otto Hohing, Sr., Peter Lammert, Hugh Speir and George Jones.
THE EVENING TIMES - Cumberland, Maryland
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1912