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The Wheeling Daily Register
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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Early on July 27, a runaway engine on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near Altamont, Md., struck a freight train at over 40 mph, killing Engineer Conaway and two drovers, Martins and Elliott, injuring Conductor T. Burke, Brakeman E. C. Charney, and drover Reynolds, and demolishing 20 cars loaded with corn, cotton, and tobacco.
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CUMBERLAND, Md., July 27—Early this morning Engineer Conaway, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, lost control of his engine on a down grade two miles east of Altamont, and forty-five miles west of here, when the engine ran away, and while running over forty miles an hour struck the rear of a freight train, demolishing twenty cars loaded with corn, cotton and tobacco from the west, scattering the contents over the track. Engineer Conaway and two men named Martins and Elliott, drovers from Barbour and Harrison counties, West Virginia, were killed. T. Burke, conductor, and E. C. Charney, brakeman, both of Piedmont, a drover named Reynolds, were badly injured. It was probably the most terrible wreck which ever occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
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Near Altamont, Maryland
Event Date
July 27
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engineer conaway, martins, and elliott killed; t. burke, e. c. charney, and reynolds badly injured; twenty cars demolished and contents scattered.
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Early this morning Engineer Conaway lost control of his engine on a down grade two miles east of Altamont, and forty-five miles west of Cumberland, when the engine ran away, and while running over forty miles an hour struck the rear of a freight train, demolishing twenty cars loaded with corn, cotton and tobacco from the west, scattering the contents over the track.