Travel Tuesday: Thrown Into Cemetery (1908)

Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)

15 September 1908

THROWN INTO CEMETERY

Engineer Tossed in a Wreck at Manassas

FIVE TRAINMEN ARE INJURED

Freight Train and Detached Engine Collide with a Crash Near the Coal Bin

Manassas, VA, Sept. 14--There was a head-on collision this morning between the Manassas branch freight train and a detached engine about half a mile west of Manassas.

The engine had been ordered to the coal bin for coal and was returning over the Manassas branch track. The freight had been ordered out,with instructions to keep a lookout for the engine, but apparently the caution was not heeded.

K. D. DeMasters, the engineer on the detached engine, was tossed into the Manassas Cemetery when the crash came. He had his left foot sprained and his nose cut. 

The following members of the freight crew were injured:

Charles Mankin, engineer; back injured

John W. Cross, conductor, right foot injured

W. D. O'Hiel, fireman, left foot mashed and face and knee skinned.

---Kneff, brakeman, injured about the body

Newspaper Tidbit: Manassas (19 December 1915)

Richmond Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA)
19 December 1915

MANASSAS

[Special to the Times-Dispatch]

MANASSAS, VA., December 18.--J. P. Leachman, treasurer of Prince William County, and his deputy, C. C. Leachman, will move their offices the first of the year from the National Bank Building to the office rooms in the M.I.C. Building, formerly occupied by Dr. R. E. Wine.

Dr. W. A. Newman yesterday entertained the members of the Medical Society of Prince William County at his residence on Main Street.

Miss Bessie Edmonds and Miss Katie Gilbrotzer, of Alexandria, were guests at the home of Mrs. L. E. Pope this week.

Mrs. Dennis O'Neil of Manassas recently visited her sister, Mrs. Sallie Armick at Barboursville. On Thursday night during the high wind the Armick home at that place was totally destroyed by fire, the family saving none of the household effects except clothing.

The Young Ladies' Bridge Club was entertained at the home of Miss Bessie Walker, on Main Street, to-day.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Watkins of Alexandria spent the week-end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Wenrich.

Mrs. N. L. Turner, of The Plains, was the guest of her mother, Mrs. P. P Chapman, during the first of the week.