The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-05-28
THE CRASH
WAS FATAL
Motorman n Raced to Get
to Switch First.
five were KILLED
Passengers Were Thrown Into
An Awful Mass--More
Than 40 Persons
Injured.

I Albany, N. Y, May 27.-Electric
cars racing for a switch while run
ming in opposite directions, at the
rate of about 40 miles an hour, re-
suited in FIVE lives being lost through
q terrific collision. in which over 40
prominent persons were injured, some
fatally and others seriously.
The lobby of the local postoffice
filled with dead and wounded, hysteri.
cal women and children looking for
relatives and friends, surgeons ad-
ministering temporary relief, and am
ibulances racing through the city, tax
ing the wounded to the hospitals,
were the early intimations of the ac-
cident
The Killed:
Frank Smith, motorman.
William Nichols, motorman.
Maud kellogg, of Round Lake.
Annie Rooney, Of Styvesant Falls.
David Mahoney, mate on the Dean
Richmond.
The fatally injured are:
George G. Barry, Troy, hurt inter-
nally.
Fred ]. Smith, Albany, injured in
ternally.
Names Of Some Injured.
The seriously injured are: William
q. Barry, Troy, cuts on head; Marie
Barry, Troy, leg broken; George p.
Bittner, Moerville, cut and bruised;
Isaac Blauvelt, Albany, leg broken;
Dewitt c. 'Peltz, Albany, badly bruis-
ed; Charles Peltz, Albany, badly
bruised; Howard j. Rogers, Albany
bruised and cut; Mrs. H. ]. Rogers,
ALBANY, cut and bruised; - .Rog-
ers, Albany, leg broken; A. w. Crots-
ley Albany, hurt internally; George
Lane, Albany, badly cut Fred Her
xog, Albany, shoulder dislocated.
| 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
cars met on the single track was at
q sharp curve, and SO fast were both
running and so sudden was the col
llision that the motormen never had
time to put on the brakes before
sputhbound car No. % had gone al.
most clean through northbound car
No. II and hung on the edge of a
high bluff with its load Of shrieking.
MANNED humanity. One niotorman
was pinioned up against the smashed
front Of the southbound car with both
legs severed and killed instantly,
while the other one lived but few
minutes.
! Fully 120 men, women and children
formed a struggling shrieking pyra-
mid, mixed with blood, detached DOR.
tions Of human bodies and the wreck
age of the car. Some of the more
slightly injured of the men eXtricated
themselves and began to pull people
out OF the rear ends of the two cars
and almost every one was taken out
IN this way and nearly all were badly
injured.
The few women and children who
had escaped injury and death we're
hysterical and added their cries to
the shrieks Of the dying and mutilat-
ed. Men with broken arms and
bones, dislocated joints and bloody
heads and faces tried to assist others
who were more helpless. Help had
been summoned from East Green
bush and vicinity, and in a little time
the bruised mass of humanity, with
the mutilated dead for a gruesome
and silent company, were loaded on
extra cars and taken to Albany
There ambulances and physicians had
been summoned and the postoffice
turned into a morgue and hospital
As fast as the physicians could tempo
rarily fix up the wounded they were
taken to their homes or to the hos
pitfalls.
With both motormen killed. II was
hard to get at the real cause Of the
accident, but 1t is pretty well de.
termined that it was caused by an at.
tempt OF the southbound car to reach
q second switch instead of waiting
Tor the northbound car at the first
siding.
The cars weighed about Is tons
each and are the largest electric cars
built, but so tightful was the crash
that both cars were torn almost to
splinters. Both cars were filed with
Sunday pleasure seekers returning
nom the new recreation grounds that
the railway had Just opened.