Mistake Cost Three Lives

Washington, Sept. 6.- Two lives were instantly crushed out and another will be lost, as the result of a switchman's mistake at the north end of Leng bridge at midnight. The killed are Frederick Freeland, flreman. and Ben Cooper, brakeman. Engineer Darius Harman is at the hospital fatally scalded. An extra train of three freight cars was derailed at the intersection of the Pennsylvania and Southern railway tracks and the tracks of the Washington and Mount Vernon Electric railroad. The cause of the wreek was the opening of the switch for the electric cars, which cross Long bridge, instead of that of the steam railroad, which would have carried the train into the j yards. Switchman Reynolds has been arrested.