The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-31
TRACTION COLLISION.
Five Persons Killed and a Number
Seriously Injured.
Men With Broken Arms. DisIocatcI
Joints and Bloody Heads Tried
10 Assist Others Who Were
More Helpless.

Albany. " Y, May 2s.-Electrio
cars racing for IA switch while rum
ming in opposite directions n the rate
of 40 miles an hour cost five lives
Sunday afternoon by a terrific col
lision in which over 40 prominent
people were injured, some fatally
and others seriously
The lobby of the local post office
filed with dead and wounded. hys-
terical women and children looking
for relatives and friends. surgeons
administering temporary relief, aud
racing through the city.
taking the wounded 10 the hospital,
we're the early intina1ious of the
accident.
The scene of the accident was a
point about two miles out of Green
bush, on the line of the Albany and
Hudson railway. The point where
the ears met on the single track was
al sharp curve, and SO fast were
both running, and 50 sudden was
the collision, that the motOrman
never had time to put on the brakes
before south bound ear No. - had
gone almost clean through north
bound car No. II. and hung on the
edge Of high elm. with its load
OF shrieking. manned humanity.
One motorman was pinioned up
against the smashed front Of ths
south bound ear, with both legs sev.
cred and killed instantly, while the
other one lived but "a few minutes.
Fully 12O men. women and children
formed a struggling. shrielsing pyr-
amid. uixed with blood. detached pcr.
tions of human bodies and the Nvrccil.
age of the ears.
Some of The more slightly injured
of the men eNtricated themselves,
and began 10 pull people out of the
rear ends of the two ears. and al
most every one was taken oIt in this
way and nearly all were badly in
iured
The few women and children who
bad escaped injury and death were
hysterical and added their cries 20
the shrieks of the DIVING and multi
ated. Men with broken arms and
bones. dislocated joints and bloody
heads and faces tried to assist others
" no were more helpless.
Help had been summoned from East
Greenbush and vicinity. and in little
time the bruised mass of humanity,
with the mutilated dead for a grue-
some and silent company, We're load
ed on extra ears and taken to Albany.
There ambulances and physicians had
been summoned and the post Office
turned into morgue and hospital.
AS fast as he physicians could tenn
porarily fix up the wounded jney
were taken TO their hoaes or TO The
hospitals.
With both motormen killed. it was
hard to get at the real cause Of the
accident. but it is pretty well de-
termined that il was caused by an
attempt of the south-bound car 10
reach Il second switch instead Of watt
ing for the n1rtil-boun6 car at The
first siding.
The cars weigh i tons each arI
are the largest electric ears built.
hut SO irigbtful was the crash 5hat
both cars were almost torn TO splin-
ters. Both ears were filled with Sur
day pleasure seekers returning nom
the new recreation grounds that the
railway had just opened.
One of the pathetic incidents OF
TIE disaster was the death of Naude
Kellogg. of Round Lake. She was
ON the south-bound car with her
tancee, George {. Barry. of Troy. and
Mr.. Barry's father. When the crash
came she was crushed TO death almost
instantly. Near her. pinned in by the
broken wreckage, lay her sweetheart.
FIantically he tried 10 reach her. his
own agonies from internal injuries
forgotten. Finding he could not
move. he appealed 10 his father, who
vas extrica;ing himself, but the girl
was dead. On the way To the city
in the car ne pleaded with those at
tending hiri 10 let him die. He viii
probably obtain his wish. for his
in liries are pronounced fatal.