Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-05-30

Albany, N. Y, May 2S.-Electric cars
racing for switch while running in
opposite directions al the rate of forty
miles an hour cost Eve lives yester-
day afternoon by terrific collision in
which over forty prominent people
were injured, some fatally and others
seriously. The lobby of the local post
Office filled with dead aad wounded,
hysterical women arG children looking
for relatives and friends, surgeons ad-
ministering temporary reief and am
balances racing through the city, TAX
ing the wounded to hospitals, were the
early intimations of the accident.
The scene of the accident was point
about two miles out of Green Bush. on
the line of the Albany & Hudson rail-
way. The point where the cars met on
the single track was at sharp curve,
and so fast were both running and so
sudden was the collision that the mo-
torman never had time to put on the
brakes before south bound car No. %
had gone almost clean through north
bound car No. II, and hung on the edge
of high bluff with it's load of
Shrieking, Manned Humanity.
One mOtorman was pinioned up against
the smashed font of the south bound
car with both legs severed and instant
ly killed, while the other one lived
few minutes. Fully 100 men. women
and children formed struggling,
shrieking pyramid, mixed with blood,
detached portions of human bodies and
the wreckage of the cars.
Some of the more slightly injured Of
the men extricated themselves and be-
gan 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 wo-
men and children who had escaped in
jury and death were hysterical and
added their cries to the shr,eixs Of the
dying and multi Ted. Mel WITH broken
arms and bones All. :'is,ocate6 joints
and bloody head, anI faces, tried to
assist others who were more helpless.
Help had been sc,p;rnne4 c:osn East
Greenbush and vicinity and in a little
time the bruised mass u: hutnanity
with the mutilated dead fc- a g.. some
and silent company were loaded on ex-
ira cars and taken to Albany. There
ambulances and physician. had been
summoned and the pos+of1ice turned
into morgue and hospital. IS fast
as the physicians could temporarily
fix up the wounded they Were taken to
their homes or to the hospitals.
MotOrman Took ChaNce~.
With both motormen Killed it was
hard to get o. the real cause Of the
accident but it was pretty well de-
termii.ed that it was caused by an at,
tempt of the south-bound car to reach
second switch instead Of waiting for
the north-bou.:d car at the first siding.
The cars weigh flseen tons each and
are the largest electric cars built. but
so frightful WIS the crash that both
cars were torn almost to splinters.
Both cars were filed with Sunday
pleasure seekers returning from the
new recreation grounds that the rail-
way had just opened. The cars on the
line We're running at switch Roadway
that is, as car reached a siding
switch it was supposed to wait until
another going in the opposite direc-
ton passed. The motorman of the
south-bound car reached one of the
switches, but seeing no north bound
car, decided to take chances and go on
to the next siding. 1t was at a curve
between that the two cars met.