Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1907 — RESPONSIBLE FOR A HORROR [ARTICLE]

RESPONSIBLE FOR A HORROR

Men Held to Blame for the Terrible Wreck at Terra Cotta, D. C., by the Coroner’s Jury. Washington. Jan. 10. —The Coroner’s inquest over the Terra Cotta wreck of Dec. 30 held for theaction of the grand jury Harry H. Hildebrand, engineer of “dead” train; Frank F. Hoffmier, conductor of that train; P. F. Dent, night train dispatcher at Baltimore; William E. McCauley, division operator of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad; B. L. Vermillion, engineer of local train GO, into which the “dead” train crashed; George W. Nagle, conductor of train 66; J. W. Kelly, Jr., trainmaster of the Baltimore and Ohio, and William M. Dvtrow, the telegraph operator at Silver Spring. All the men held except Dent, McCaulley and Kelly, were in the building where the inquest was held and were placed under arrest.