New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-07
COHOES TROLL Ely TRAGEDY.
NUMBER OF VICTIMS OF THE EMPRESS
TRAIN COLLISION NOW SIXTEEN
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE OCCURRENCE NOT
YET FIxED-coNDUcToR OF TROLLEY
CAR TO SEE THAT THE WAY IS

CLEAR.
Cohoes y Y Sept s--The railroad disaster here
was tragedy. Walter Cong0on. the conductor Of
the motor-car which was wrecked with such great
loss OF life in a collision with the night boat OK
press Of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad last
night has been arrested for granddaughter on a
warran: Issued to-day. He was taken In CUSTOM
DIT his home In Lansngburs. and is now cohnhed
in the Cohocs Jail He is charged with having
signallcd his car 10 proceed over the tracks Of the
Delaware and Hudson company when the express
Train was In sight
This crossing being considered DANGEROUS ny the
Troy City Railway Company, a rule has lone been
IN force which requires The conductor Of e&cn car
approaching the crossing 10 leave the same ana
ascertain if the crossing IS clear from trains in
either direction TIE track of the railroad Is per
fcc:iy s;rash; for half mile so that Is no
difficult for the conductor Of moor-car % as
certain II there IS danger ahead. Whether ConSdon
lef, his car. approached the crossing and signalcd
the mOtorman 10 cross IS nor known. Congcon VIII
make no statement. The fact that he IS un!njured
Is taken presumptive evidence that he was not
his a, the time Of the accident
Another theory Of the cause Of the accident IS
that the machinery OF the car became unmanaGe-
able and that the motorman could not prevent It
running the crossing. There is down grade
from the point where the left the bridge 10
the tracks. where the collision took place. 1t is
sufficient TO a distance much further.
Conductor ConGdon said that nc would make TO
be held In the latter part Of next week
Engineer Richards OF the train which struck the
car stated to-day that he did not the car until
!; upon the track before him. He could do
nothing TO avert the crash.
The city to-day is grief-strcken. In sixteen homes
the manged corpses Of those who were killed
outright or died from injuries sustained. The
night Of intense excitement, which bad not
abated to-day. The of the collision was
visited by thousands of persons, who came here
from Albany. Troy and other neighboring cities
The remnants Of the car are piled up side
Of the track, the fire. which broke out from a
I've trolley wire after fhe collision having destroyed
part OF It. Huge pieces OF the wreck. stained with
ne blood OF its victims. strewn about the scene
The car was Of unusually large size.
There was one death this morning that Of Miss
Emma Darbyshre. Of Cohoes. who had splinter
Of wood four inches long enter her skull
The complete list Of the killed is as follows;
BARNEY. Onward. thirty-three years old. OF Cohoes.
CHAMPoUX. Archibald forty years old, Of Adams Island.
CRAVEN. Mrs John. forty-eight years old Of Van
CRAyt1N, Miss Kittie. old. mill hand
CRAVEN. Miss Winnie twenty years old. of Cohoes,
DARBYsHIRE. Miss Emma. OF Cohoes.
DODGE. William. of Cohoes
MELRoY Mrs. Eliza. sxty-three years old. Of Cohoes
sENEZ Joseph. forty-eight years Cd. Of Cohoes.
SHAW Mrs Ellen OF Cohoes.
sUTcLFfB Mrs. John ", forty-hve years old Of
cohoes.
SWEET Nellie fifteen years old. Of Cohoes
TAYLOR. Mrs. Jane. Of Cohoes
TEMPLE. James ,hiry-sN years old. Of IAnsingeurs
TIMMoNs John twenty four years old. Of cohoes
The injured
William Windsor, motorman; fractured skull leg
broken and internal injuries, condition critical
Mrs John Timmins Cohoes: badly bruised about
the head and body; left leg broken and Internal
injuries; taken home.
Abram butcher. Crescent: spine injured and in
John SutliTe, badly bruised and cut about the
head and body.
William Higgins. arm injured and badly shaken
Mrs. Ira Dewey. badly injured about the head.
Mrs. James Temple, LansingbDrg fractured jaw,
bruises and internal Injuries.
Isaac Shaw, Cohoes; cut and bruised.
Mrs. Michael Lajeunnesse. Cohoes; fractured col
larbone. injured internally.
Miss Hannah Senez Cohoes. limbs bruised
Miss Lizzie McElroy, badly cut about the face;
Child of Ira Dewey slightly injured
Mr. and Mrs. Cierge Anker and son OF Cohoes:
Mrs. Anker probably internally injured. -
Miss Mary Houlhan. left les broken ana ldGe cul.
An unknown woman, at the hospital, badly cut
about the face; skull fractured
The Coroners jury and Coroner Tessier viewed
the scene Of the wreck al o'clock this morning.
The debris has ali been cleared away. Superin-
tendent Charles H. Smith. of the Troy City Railway
Company, this morning asked for a statement
about the wreck He said:
am not prepared to give any information as TO
the cause or blame. AS soon as learned Of the
fatality / went 10 the scene. and did al in my
power aid the injured. ! tried 70 talk TO Con-
ductor COngdon, but he suffering badly
from nervous prostration that he did not speak
coherently. ! Will him again to-day have
been told the Delaware and Hudson tran was run
rieges for the removal of the injured and the dead
No fun statement can be made until have COM