The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-09-10
Shocking Accident at cohoes, New
York, With Large Loss Of
Life.
TRAIN STRIKES A STREET CAR.
Almost Every Passenger in the
the Crowoed Car Is Killed or
Fatally Injured.
The victims ARE BADLY manGLeD
Engineer Of the Train hid Not See
The Car Unul He Wa. Upon
It--Ioo Late to
Sion.

Cohoes. n. y, Sept. An appall-
ing disaster occurred in this city
shortly before 5 O'clock last night. 4
trolley car of the Troy City Railroad
company vas struck by the night boat
SPECIAL of the Delaware and Hudson
railroad at Il crossing at the west end
of the Hudson river bridge, which
connects this city with Lansingburg.
where its load OF human freight vas
hurled into the air. Eighteen of the
t~hirty-five passengers are dead and at
least ten Of the remainder will die.
The cars entering the city from
Lansingburg We're crowded with pas
sengers returning from a Labor day
picnic at Rensselaer, park, a pleasure
resort ear Troy. Car No. 1872 was the
victim of the disaster. 1t came over
the bridge at 1855 o'clock leaden with
a merry party of people fresh from the
enjoyment of the day.
The crossing where the accident oc-
Cured is Il grade. Four tracks of the
Delaware and Hudson road cross the
two tracks of the trolley roads. The
tracks of the street car line u at
a grade from the bridge to the point
where the disaster took place.
In consequence of this fact and of
frequent passage of trains it has been
the rule for each motor car conduc-
tor to stop his car and go forward to
observe the railroad tracks and signal
his car ahead if no trains were in
sight. 1t cannot be ascertained wheth-
er the 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 IL high rate
of speed. The accident came without
the slightest warning. The cars were
upon the track before the train
doomed in sight. The motormun evil
IDENTIFY saw the train approaching as
he reached the track, and opened his
controller, but in vain. With Il crash
that was heard for blocks the engine
struck into the lighter vehicle. The
motor a parted in two, both sec
tons Icing hurled into the air in OPP
posite directions. The mass of hu-
mainly, for the car was crowded to
overlooking, vas torn and mangled.
Those in the front ofthe cur met with
the worst fate, and every human being
in that section of the was killed.
Passengers Torn To Pieces.
The scene was horrible. Bodies had
been hurled into the air and their
headless and limbless trunks were
found, in some cases, fifty feet from
the crossing.
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.
The majority of the passengers of
the trolley car were young people.
They included many women Within
ten minutes after the collision fully
one-half of the population of the city
was surging about the vicinity in an
cndeaSor to ascertain If relatives were
among the unfortllnates. The in
jured were taken to the city hospital
and to the Continental knitting mill,
the former not having sufficient am
bulance service to are for them all.
The corpses We're placed III boxes and
taken to n neighboring mill shed.
Many of them We're unrecognizable.
Headless ONE with gay summer
dresses bathed in their W and the
blood of others; limbs without trunks
OF any means of identifying to whom
they belonged; women's and mems
heads with crushed and distorted fea-
lures; bodies crushed and %fattened--
these sights constituted Il spectacle
horrible to behold.
The engineer of the train 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
We're fruitless. His train was going at
a very high rate of speed at the time
trying to make up loss time. The en-
gineer says that the first he knew that
the car was coming was when the mo-
torman, when he saw the train WE up
on him, tried to get beyond the danger
line. The grade of this crossing with
the speed at which his car was going
also made it impossible for him to stop
before he reached the tracks. The
motormnn was killed outright.
Identified tsotlics.
The following bodies were identified
up to / o'clock last night:
ARCHIE CAMPEAUX.
EDWARD BARNEY.
MRS. JOHN CRAVEN.
MISS KITrTis CRAVEN.
JOSEPH SEM.
NELLIE SWETT, Is years old.
MRS. ELIZA M'ELROY, all of CO.
hoes.
JAMES TEMPLE. of Lansingburg.
MRS. JAMES TAYLOR.
MISS WINNIE CRAVEN.
JAMES LINZ.
FOUGHT A DUEL IN The STREET