The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-06


disaster occurred in this city tonight.
Shortly before o'clock a trolley car
of the Troy City Railway company
was struck by the night boat sDecial
OF the Delaware & Hudson, at a
crossing at he west G. Of the Hudson
river bridge, which connects the city
with Lansingburg. and its load Of hu-
,man freight was hurried into the air.
Eighteen OF the So passengers are dead
and ct least ten Of the remainder Will
die
The cars entering the city from Ian
si1gburg were crowded with passengers
returning from a labor day picnic at
Rennssalaer's cark, a pleasure resort
rear Troy. IT was car No. 1872 of the
Troy City railway that met with dis
2ster II came over the bridge about
z:3G o'clock. laden with a merry party
of people, fresh from the enjoyment of
the day.
The crossing where the accident oc-
CURED is at grace. Four tracks of the
Delaware & Hudson railroad, which
runs north and south at this point,
cross the two tracks of the trolley road.
II was the hour when the night boat
Sa,eciai. train which runs south and
connects with the New York City boat
at Albany. was due to pass that point.
Tracks OF the street lines run at
grade from the bridge to the point
where the disaster took place. In con-
sequence of this fact and frequest pass
ing OF trains. 1t has been the rule for
each motor car conductor to stoD his
car and go forward to observe the rail-
road tracks and signal his car to pro
ceeG If no trains are in sizht. 1t can
not he asceTtnined whether that rule
was ck<nplied with on this occasion, for
all ,fc n IA ?
gotten by those who were involved. &
STRUCK IN THE CENTER.
The motor car was struck directly in
the center by the engine of the train,
which was going at high rate of
speed. 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
have saved it. The motorman evident
ly saw the train approaching as he
, reached the track and opened his con-
trolier. but in vain.
With : crash that was heard for
blocks the engine struck into the lighter
vehicle. The eject was horrible. The
motor car parted in two, both sections
being hurled into the air in s9linters.
The mass Of huT~ nifty, for the car was
crowded 10 ovC wing, was torn and
nangled. Thcs. n the front of the
car met with the worst fate. The force
of the collision was there experienced
10 the greatest degree, and every hu-
man hing in that section was killed.
The scene w2s horrible. Bodies had
been hurled into the air, and their
bea3lless and linbless trunks were
found, in some cases, 90 feet from the
crossing.
The pilot of the engine was smashed,
and amid its wreckage were the maim-
Cd Of tsa-r Tho rlaGSPn-
gers of the train suffered no injury eX-
cept a shock.
THE majority Of the passengers on
the trolley we're young people. They
included many women.
Within ten minutes after the collision
fully one-half of the population of the
city were surging about the vicinity, in
an endeavor to ascertain i relatives
were among the unfortunates.
The injured were taken to the city
hospital and to the Continental knit
ting mill, the former not having suf-
ficient ambulance service to care for
them all. The corpses were placed in
boxes and taken to a neighboring mill
shed. Many of them were unrecog-
nizable.
SICKENING SCENES.
The crash was frightful III its results,
Headless women, with gay summer
dresses. bathed in their own and the
blood of others; limbs without trunks
or any means of identifying TO whom
they belonged; women's and mems
heads, with crushed and distorted fea-
lures: bodies crushed and flattened /
These sights constituted a spectacle /
most horrible to behold.
The train of the Delaware & Hudson |
road, Immediately after the accident, |
proceeded to Troy. The engineer stated l
h q hn anf f11n inf hlA
was upon it He tried to prevent his !
train from striking the car, but his |
efforts were fruitiess. His train was |
going at a very high rate OF speed at !
the time. He was some minutes late /
and was trying to make up lost time. /
In consequence of the caution taken /
by the trolley road to ascertain if the /
Of trains have always felt |
safe in running by at high rate of /
speed The engineer says that the first /
be knew that the car was coming was /
when it hove in sight at the corner of |
the street ar which the crossing is /
He was but a short distance
from the car at the time It was /
utterly impossible for him to bring his
train to standstill. He thinks that /
the motorman, when he saw the train /
was upon him, tried to get beyond the /
danger line. The grade of this crossing
and the speed at which his car was
going also made it impossible for him
to stop before reaching the tracks. 1t
was the front end of his car that was
caught and crushed, and he was killed
The following bodies were
Identified up to 1 O'Clock:
Archie Campeau of Cohoes, James I
Temple of Lansingburg, Edward Bar
ney of Cohoes, Mrs. John Craven of
Cohoes, Miss Kittie Craven of Cohoes,
Joseph Sense of Cohoes, Nellie SWEET,
Is years of age, of Cohoes; Mrs. Eliza
McElroy OF Cohoes.
The injured are: Isaac Shaw of CO.
loes. skull fractured; George Ankers
Il CohoUes, injured internally; John
". Sutcliffe OF Cohoes. head cut and
lbs broken: Miss Lizzie McElroy of
ynhoes, 1eg broken; Mrs. Izen Nesse of
rohoes. collar bone fractured and sew
raj ribs broken. She had baby in
lei. arms. 1t was crushed and will die:
emma Devashire of Cohoes, skull