The times., 1898-09-06
HURLED TO THEIR Death
Railroad Train Crashes Into a
Loaded Motor Car.
FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED
Twenty Others So Seriously Injured
The, Are Not Expected TO Live
Mnngled Victims Scattered I'm
Every observation-disclosures
for the Accident Not Yet Fixed.

Troy. n. Y, Sept 5.-Blue Line motor
car No 1872 of the Troy City Railway
Company was struck by engine 2l9 of the
Delaware and Hudson Railroad, attached
to the steamboat express due in Troy
at 7:30 tonight The accident resulted in
the death of fifteen persons and twenty
more are not expected to live. The acci-
dent occurred at 1855 p. m. at the end of
Lansinburg Bridge, in Cohoes.
The motor car tracks cross those of the
Delaware and Hudson at right angles.
and when the collision occurred the rail-
road train, a heavy one. was running at
a speed of fifty miles an nour. When
the locomotive struck the motor car the
latter was picked up and hurled thirty or
forty feet from the tracks. About forty
passengers were on the car, and but one
escaped injury, so far as can De learned
Motor Car Was Struck
The motor car was struck just forward
of the center and the passengers were
hurled for several rods away. The scene
was an awful one when the train was
brought to a standstiI. Two horribly
mangied bodies were on the locomotive
pilot and the victims were lying scat
tered about the tracks in very direction
The wrecked car was cut in two
Conductor Walter Congdon. of the mo-
tor car. who was at the crossing, was
not injured. The motorman, William
Windsor had his leg broken and died
about 10 O'Clock. Ten of the passengers
sFHe, xrroS
TO Cohoes from the Labor Day picnic at
Young's Grove, Lansingburg were killed
outright, and five others died within an
hour. OF the injured, but few are expect
ed to Live twenty-four hours.
Private Charles Richardson, Of COmpa-
ny F, Schenectady, of the Second New
York Volunteers, was the only passenger
unhurt He jumped from the car as the
collision took place and was hurled fifty
feet by the force of the shock. He stated
that he was returning from the picnic
with three girls from Cohoes whose
names he did not know.
Did Not See the Train Coming.
THE car slowed up as we crossed the
Lansingburg bridge" said Private Rich
ardson, "and the conductor jumped off
the front end OF the car. 1 did not notice
any train coming, until the locomotive
doomed up ahead of me sprang OF the
car, and the next thing ] knew I picked
myself up from the tracks, 1 should think
about fifty feet away. I was stunned, but
otherwise uninjured, and returned TO
where the car lay. I helped take the two
bodies from the pilot of the engine, but
the terrible sight nauseated me and l
tainted"
Joseph McMurray, commercial trave-
Ter was on the train from Saratoga He
said that the train was running at almost
fifty miles an hour, 1t being nearly an
hour behind schedule time The Della
ware and Hudson conductor was William
H. Connaughty.
The injured were carried into the Com
mercial Knitting NH and all that was
possible was done to relieve their suffer-
ings- To add to the confusion, when the
collision occurred the electric lights of
the city were extinguished, as light con-
trolling all the lights in that section was
struck by the flying motor car
The blame of the accident has as vet
no definite resting place
Conductor Congdon says that he obey-
ed the company rules and went forward
to the crossing and signaled the motor
man TO stop. 1t is said that Motorman
Windsor, before he dice, recovered con-
sciousness and stated that his brake
would not work He was thrown one
hundred feet and his leg was broken
President Clenshaw, Of the Troy City
Railway Company, said that the car had
been examined after the accident and no
defects could be found.
The dead are with the exception of
two, from Cohoes
The bodies of the women were SO badly
mutilated that recognition was impossi-
BILE. The dead bodies were laid side by
side and score of physicians soon ar
rived TO aid the wounded.
1t was ten minutes before any persons,
excepting the dispatchers, were on the
scene, but by $50 o'clock thousands were
gathered around the horrible scene BY
o'clock the city of Cohoes was panic
stricken.
Streets Filled With People
The main streets were filled with men
and women, who were frenzied- Thou
sands rushed to the scene of the wreck
dreading to find among the killed and
missing the face of friend or relative
Long after midnight the crowd remained.
1t is impossible TO get the names of
any of the killed at this hour. and it
may be days before the work of identifi-
cation IS completed.
A high fence obstructs the view of the
Delaware and Hudson tracks to the north
unless the lookout is stationed directly
upon the railroad tracks. 1t was from
the north that the train was coming
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