The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-09-09
THEIR LIVES CRUSHED OUT.
SWIFT TRAIN sAAsHEs A troll.
LEY CAR TO sPLINTERs.
EIGHTEEN PASSENGERS KILLED.
men aud Women ON tho Trolley aTangied
Beyond tdentiaeation-Ten Badly
Wounded and May Die.

Shortly before 8 o'clock Monday
night trolley car Of the Troy City
Railway company was struck by the
night boat special Of the Delaware and
Hudson railroad, at q crossing at the
west end OF the Hudson river bridge,
which connects Cohoes, n. Y, with
Lansingburg.
Eighteen Of the thirty-fvo passen-
gers were killed outright and it is
stated that at least ten of the remain
der will die.
The cars entering the city for Lans-
ingburg we're crowded with passengers
returning from a Labor Day picnic AZ
Rensselaer, park, pleasure resort near
Troy.
Car No. 1872 Of the Troy City railway
was the victim Of the disaster. It came
over the bridge about 1875 o'clock,
laden with a merry party Of people.
The crossing where the accident oo-
CURED is at a grade. Four tracks Of
the Delaware and Hudson road, which
runs north and south at this point,
cross the two tracks Of the trolley
road. 1t was the hour when the night
boat special, train which runs south
and connects with the New York city
boat at Albany, was due to pass that
point
The tracks Of the street lice run at
a grade from the bridge to the point
where the disaster occurred.
In consequence Of this fact and of
the frequent passage of the trains, it
has been the rule for each motor car
conductor TO stop his car and go for
ward to observe the railroad tracks
and signal his car to proceed if no
trains were in sight. It cannot be
ascertained whether that rule was
complied with on this occasion, for all
events prior to the crash are forgotten
by those who were involved.
The motor car was struck directly in
the center by the engine of the train,
which was going at high speed. The
car was upon the tracks before the
train doomed in sight and no power on
earth could have saved it. The motor.
man evidently saw the train approach
ing as he reached the track aud open
ed his controller, but in vain.
With a crash that was heard fol-
blocks, the engine dashed into the
lighter vehicle. The motor car parted
in two, both sections being hurled in
TO the air in splinters. The mass Of
humanity, for the car was crowded tC
overlooking, was torn and mangled
Those in the front of the car met with
the worst fate. The force of the col
lision was there experienced to the
greatest degree, and every human be
ing in that section of the car wal
killed.
Bodies were hurled into the air ant
their headless and limbless trunks
were found in some cases fifty fee
from the crossing.
The pilot of the engine was smashe,
and amid its wreckage were the
manned corpses of two women. Tn
passengers of the train suffered n,
injury in addition to a violent shock
The majority Of the passengers o
the trolley car were young people
They included many women.
The injured were taken to tn
Cohoes city hospital and to the Con
tinental knitting mill, the former no
having sufficient ambulance service t.
: care for them all. The dead wer
placed in boxes and taken to neigh
boring mill shed.
Many were unacceptable. TIL
crash was frightful in its results
headless women with gay summe
dresses, bathed in their own and tn
blood of others; limbs without trunk
or means of identifying to whom the
belonged; women and mems head
with crushed and distorted features
bodies crushed and fattened.
Q The train of the Delaware and Hud
J son road, Immediately after the acci
dent, proceeded to Troy. The engin
eer stated that he did not see the ca
until he was upon it.
He tried to prevent his train froI
striking the car, but his efforts wer
\ fruitless.
, ARKANSAS STATE ELECTION.