The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-09-08
EIGHTEEN KILLED
Appalling DisaAker. on the Del
aware and Hudson at
y: Cohoes, NJ. Y.
Loaded Trolley Car Completely
Demolished by an Ex-
press Train.
HORRIBLE SCENE FOLLOWS
Bodies Hurled High in the Air
Found Fifty Feet From
the Wreck.
Many Are Cut to Pieces and
Otherwise Terribly
Mangled.
HORRIBLE SCENE FOLLOWS

ling disaster occurred in this city
shortly before = o'clock. A trolley car
Of the Troy City Railroad 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 this city
with Lansingburg, and it's load Of hu.
man freight was hurled into the air.
Eighteen Of the So passengers are dead
and at least ~ of the remainder will
die.
The cars entering the city from
Lansingburg were crowded with pas
sengers returning from q picnic at
Rennsaeler 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 1880
o'clock laden with
A Marry Party OF People
fresh from the enjoyment of the day.
The crossing where the accident oo-
CURED is on grade. -Four tracks Of
the Delaware and Hudson road cross
the two tracks Of the trolley road. It
was the hour when the night boat ex.
press. train which runs south and
connects with the New York Central
at Albany. was due to pass the point.
In consequence Of this fact and Of the
frequent passage Of trains it has been
the rule for each motor car conductor
to stop his car and 60 forward to OBJ
serve the railway tracks and signal his
car to proceed il no trains were in
sight. It cannot be ascertained wheth-
or 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 rate Of speed. The &C
cident came. without the slightest
warning. The car was upon the tracks
before the train doomed in sight and
no power ON earth could have saved it.
The motorman evidently saw the train
approaching. as he reached the track
and opened his controller but in vain.
With crash that was heard for blocks
the engine struck into the lighter We.
hicle. The effect was horrible. The
motor car parted in two, both sections
being hurled into the air in splinters.
The mass Of humanity, for the car
was crowded to overlooking, was torn
and mangled. Those in the front Of
the car met with the worse fate. The
collision was there experienced to the
greatest degree and every human be.
ing In that section Of the car was
killed.
The Scene Was Horrible.
Bodies had been hurled into the air
and their headless and imblsss trunks
were found, in some cases, 80 feet
from the crossing. The pilot Of the
engine was smashed and among its
wreckage were the MANNED corpses of
two women. The passengers OF the
train suffered no injury, save violent
shock. The majority Of the passengers
! Of the trolley car were young people.
They included many women.
Within 10 minutes after the collision
fully one.half Of the population Of the
city were surging about the vicinity in
an endeavor to ascertain whether rela-
tives were among the unfortunates
The injured were taken to the city
hospitals and to the Continental knit.
ting mill, the former not having suff.
cient ambulanoes to care for them all
| Many Bodies Unacceptable.
The corpses were placed in boxes and
taken to a neighboring mill shed.
Many Of them were unacceptable.
! The crash was frightful in ito 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 and mems
heads with crushed aud distorted fea-
lures; bodies crushed and f1attened;
the sights constituted spectacle most
horrible to behold. The train imme.
diately after the accident proceeded to
Troy. The engineer stated that he did
not eco the car until he was upon It.
He tried to prevent his engine from
striking the car, bus his Efforts were
fyuitless His train was going at q
high rate Of speed at the time. he
was some minutes late and WAS trying
TO make up lost time.