Ellicott City Train Derailment Victims Tweeted From Tracks Before Death
Two young women, 19, died in the Ellicott City train derailment.
In the hour before officials said parts of a CSX train crashed and overturned early Tuesday morning in downtown Ellicott City, the two women who died in the incident were tweeting about sitting on the train tracks.
Elizabeth Conway Nass and Rose Mayr, both 19, of Ellicott City, died in the incident, which occurred at 12:02 a.m. Tuesday, train officials said.
“Levitating,” wrote a Twitter user named Rose Mayr at 10:51 p.m. under the name @r0se_petals, accompanied by a picture of two pairs of women’s feet dangling over the street in Ellicott City.
A Twitter user named Elizabeth Nass (@LizNassty) tweeted at 10:40 p.m. that she was “drinking on top of the Ellicott City sign,” which sits under the train tracks that cross Main Street, with @r0se_petals.
Safety officials have not yet confirmed the tweets came from the victims.
The train derailment happened at 12:02 a.m. Tuesday, according to officials.
Preliminary investigations show the women were believed to be "on a walkway alongside the train tracks" and were "crushed by falling coal," according to the Washington Post.
Nasss was a student at James Madison University and Mayr was a student at the University of Delaware.
Condolence and observations of the “eerie tweets” of the girls are streaming through Twitter.
- So strange to see people tweet right before their deaths. Smh. @r0se_petals@LizNassty - @i__Cam
- “Kinda eery this was her last tweet.” - @Ox_meredith_xO
- “Tomorrow is never promised.”- @jennyjenn_xo
- Last Tweet from Rose Mayr RT @r0se_petals: Levitating @LizNasstyhttp://pic.twitter.com/h4Hpu1u6@Mia124
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nancy
4:15 pm on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
I think it is awful that these were shared with the public. If I was the parents of the girls I would be furious. They are grieving and do not need to see this splashed all over. I am disappointed that you would do this as I am an avid reader of the patch but have now lost respect for these writers.
DN
4:28 pm on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Their profiles were public on twitter, so therefore, public access. It is heartbreaking for the parents, but does give insight to what they were doing up there in the first place.
Diane Iacia
4:51 pm on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Hold your babies close, my babies are 22 & 17. Yes , anyone could have seen their tweets, I don't really feel one way or another about The Patch sharing them. Kids these days share everything "instantly" twitter, instagram, etc... I grew up here in Catonsville and have been on those tracks, I dare say so have my girls. Too many times lately I've reminded them how things can change in an instant. My heart goes out to Rose and Elizabeth's families, they are in our prayers.