Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-09-06
Train Smashed Street Car
at Cohoes, N. Y.
EIGHTEEN PEOPLE WERE KILLED.
AT Least Ten More Are Expected to Die
of Their Injuries Many of the Vic
Tins Returning From Picnic-Motor-
man Died at His Post.

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at full speed at grade crossing i'll this
city last night and cut in two Ten
persons were killed outright, eight died
soon thereafter from the effects of their
injuries and the remainder of the pas
senger were all injured about ten of
whom may die.
The trolley car was one on the Troy
City Railroad company and was struck
by the night boat special of the Della
ware and Hudson railroad at crossing
at the west end of the Hudson river
bridge which connects this city with
Lansingburg, and it's load of human
freight was hurled into the air.
Eighteen Of the 80 passengers are
dead and at least ten of the remainder
will die.
The car entering the city from Lam
singburg was crowded with passengers
returning from Labor day picnic at
Rensselaer, park, pleasure resort near
Troy
The tracks of the street car line run
at grade from the bridge to the point
where the disaster took place. In con-
sequence OF this fact and of the frequent
passage of trains it has been the rule
for each motor car conductor to stop his
Car and go forward to observe the rail
road tracks and signal his car to pro.
coed if no trains were in sight. 1t can
not be ascertained whether that rule
was complied with on this occasion.
The motor car was struck directly in
the center by the engine of the train,
which was going at high rate of speed.
The accident came without the slightest
warning. The Car was upon the tracks
before the train doomed in sight and no
power on earth could have saved it.
The motorman evidently saw the train
approaching, as he reached the track,
and opened his controller, but in vain
With crash that was heard for blocks
the engine struck into the lighter We
hicle. The effect was horrible The
motor car parted in two, both sections
| being hurled into the air in splinters
The mass OF humanity, for the car was
crowded to overfowing, was torn and
mangle6.
The pilot of the engine was smashed
and amid its wreckage were the manned
| corpses of two women.
The passengers of the train suffered
no injury i'll addition to a violent shock.
The majority of the passengers of the
trolly car were young people. They in
cluded many women.
The corpses were placed in boxes and
taken to a neighboring mill shed. Many
OF them were unrecognizable. The
crash was frightful in it's results. Head
less women, with gay summer dresses
bathed in their own and the blood of
others; limbs without trunks or any
means of Identifying to whom they be-
longed, women's and mems heads with
crushed and distorted features; bodies
crushed and fiattened, these sights con.
stituted a spectacle too horrible to
| behold
The train on the Delaware and Hud-
son road, Immediately after the acct
dent, proceeded to Troy. The engineer
stated that he did not see the car until
he was upon it. He tried to prevent
his train from striking the car, but his
efforts were fruitless.
H thinks that the motorman when
he saw the train was upon him tried to
get beyond the danger line. The grade
of this crossing and the speed at which
his car was going also made it impos-
sible for him to stop before he reached
the Delaware and Hudson tracks. 1t
was the front end of his car that caught
the crash and he was killed outright.
The following bodies were identifi ed
up to o'clock this morning:
Archie Campeax of Cohoes.
James Temple, Lansingburg.
Edward Barney, Cohoes.
Mrs. John Craven, Cohoes.
Miss Kittie Craven, Cohoes.
Joseph Sense of Cohoes.
Nellie Sweet, Is years old, Cohoes.
Mrs. E. Nc Elroy, Cohoes.
Among the injured were
Isaac Shaw of Cohoes, skull fractured.
George Ankers of Cohoes, injured in
ternally.
John w. Sutcliff of Cohoes, head cut
and ri1s broken.
Miss Lizzie McElroy of Cohoes, leg
broken.
/ Mrs. Lizennese of Cohoes, coIlarbone
fractured and several ribs broken.
! She had baby in her arms. It was
crushed and will die.
| Emma Devashise of Cohoes, skull
crushed.
Mrs. James Temple, Lansingburg,
jaw fractured and injured internally.
Mrs Ira Device of Cohoes head