Rose Mayr and Elizabeth Nass, Both 19-Years-Old, Killed in Maryland Train Derailment

This CNN report is abrasive in its constant reference to the two women as "girls." They were both 19-years-old, actually --- old enough to serve in combat.

See: "Two Maryland teenagers killed when train derails, spills coal."

The Los Angeles Times does better, "Train derails, tumbles from bridge near Baltimore; 2 women killed":

A coal train derailed and tumbled from a bridge in Maryland early Tuesday morning, crushing cars in a nearby parking lot and killing two women who were on the tracks, officials said.

Just after midnight Tuesday, 21 of the train’s 80 cars flipped over on a bridge in Ellicott City,  about 12 miles west of Baltimore. Some cars spilled coal across the town’s Main Street, and seven cars fell onto vehicles in a county-owned parking lot nearby, Howard County Police Department spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn told The Los Angeles Times.

"All you could see was train cars tumbled every which way and coal everywhere,” Benjamin Noppenberger, a chef at restaurant on Main Street, told the Baltimore Sun. “Cars were on the road and parking lot and everything in the lot was crushed.”

As officials cleared the scene Tuesday, using cranes to pry the train cars from the wreckage, they found the bodies of two young women, Llewellyn said.

The victims have been identified as Elizabeth Conway Nass and Rose Mayr, both 19 from Ellicott City. Nass was studying at James Madison University in Virginia and Mayr attended the University of Delaware, police said.

Two train operators were not harmed in the accident, officials said. The cause of the crash is not yet known.

Howard County officials declined to comment further, saying the National Transportation Safety Board had taken charge of the investigation.

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These two women were attending university. And CNN's calling them "girls." If they'd been deployed and killed in combat would the network still be calling them "teenage girls."

All this talk about how the left --- and by extension the MSM --- is so "tolerant" toward women is about to make my hurl.