Evening journal., 1898-09-06
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT
Trolley Car Run Down by an
Express Train.
EIGHTEEN PEOPLE INSTANTLY KILLED
Many Badly Injured In Addition to the
Long List of Dead-Oniy One of
the Trolley Cars Passon-
gers Escaped Unhurt.

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COHOES. n. Y, Sept. 6.-There was
an appalling disaster in this city last
night, when a trolley car of the Troy
City Railroad company was struck by
the Night Boat special OF the Delaware
and Hudson railroad at a crossing at
the west end of the Hudson river
bridge. which connects this city with
Lansingburg.
Eighteen Of the S5 passengers on the
trolley care are dead. and at least ten
of the remainder will die. The catastro-
phe was an awful spectacle.
The tracks of the street line run at a
grade from the bridge to the point
where the disaster took place. In con-
sequence Of this fact and OF the fire.
quent passage OF trains II has been the
rule for each motor car conductor TO
stop his car and go forward TO observe
the railroad tracks and signal his car
to proceed If no trains are In sight. II
cannot be ascertained whether that rule
was complied with on this occasion. for
all events prior to the crash are forgot
ten by those who participated in the
horror.
i The motor car was struck directly in
4 the center by the engine OF the train,
which was going at high rate Of speed.
u The accident came without the slightest
) warning. The car was upon the tracks
before the train loomed in sight, and no
power on earth could save 1t. The mo-
torman evidently saw the train APP
proacbing as he reached the track, for
he started the car at full speed, but his
efforts were ia vain.
Those in the front of the car met with
z the worst fate. The force of the colli-
sion was there experienced to the great
est degree, and every human being In
that section Of the car was killed. The
scene was horrible. Bodies had been
hurled into the air, and their headless
and limbless trunks were found in soma
cases so feet from the crossing.
The pilot Of the engine was smashed,
t and in the wreckage were the MANNED
= bodies of two women. The passengers
S on the train suffered no injury in ad-
D dition to a violent shock
A majority Of the passengers on the
trolley car were young people. They
included many women. There was abb
solutely no chance for them to save
themselves from the crash. 1t came
! without the slightest warning.
The injured We're taken to the City
hospital and to the Continental Knit
ting mill. the former not having suffi-
A Client ambulance service to care for them
all. The bodies were picked up in boxes
: and placed in a neighboring mill shed
9 Many Of them were unrecognizable.
The train of the Delaware and Hudson
e railroad Immediately after the accident
IS proceeded 70 Troy. The engine driver
e said that he did not see the car unit
n he was upon It. He tried to prevent hi
e train from striking the car. bat his ef
Y forts were frutless. His train was go
II ing at a very high rate of speed a
n the time. He was several minutes lat
and was trying to make up lost time.
In consequence Of the caution takeI
= by the trolley road to ascertain II th'
. tracks We're clear at this crossing, tn,
y engine drivers of trains have always
felt safe in running by al a high rate o
7 speed. The engine driver says that th'
y first he knew that the car was coming
g was when it came in sight at the corner
a Of the street where the crossing is sit
uated. He was but a short distance from
the car at the time
1t was utterly impossible for him L
bring his train to a standstill in orde
to avoid the accident He thinks tina
u the motorman, when he saw the trail
was upon him, tried to get beyond III
danger line. The grade Of this crossing
d and the speed at which his car was go
8 ing also made It impossible for him 4
r. stop before he reached the Delawar
= and Hudson tracks. IL was the from
], end of his car that caught the crash
= and he was killed outright.
- These bodies were identified: Archi
4 Campeaux Of Cohoes. James Temple o
20 Langsingburg. Edward Barney Of Go
g hoes, Mrs. John Craven Of Cohoes, Mis-
n Kittie Craven OF Cohoes, Joseph SEM o
E. Cohoes, Nellie SWEET, 15 years old. o
Cohoes, Mrs. Eliza McElroy Of Cohoes
g. Mrs. James Taylor Of Cohoes. Mis-
ID Winnie Craven of Cohoes. James Idne
10 of Cohoes, Mrs. Ellen Shaw of Cohoe
40 and John Timmins Of Cohoes.
- These are among the injured: Isaa
Shaw of Cohoes, skull fractured; GeOrg
~ Ankers Of Cohoes, injured internally
John w. Suhtcliffe Of Cohoes, head Gu
and ribs broken; Miss Lizzie McElro
!. Of Cohoes. leg broken; Mrs Lizenness
arl of Cohoes. collar bone fractured an
.i ravaro1 ribs brOlxpu. she had a hahV &