An initial autopsy report shows that two 19-year-old women killed when a CSX train derailed in Ellicott City suffocated under the weight of coal that spilled on top of them when the railcars tipped over.

The report from the medical examiner’s office ruled the deaths of both Elizabeth Nass and Rose Mayr as accidental, according to Howard County police.

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