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, DisIocatcd
Joints and Bloody Heads Tried
10 Assist Others Who Were
More Helpless.

Albany, y. Y, May 25.-Electrio
cars racing for switch while run
ming in opposite directions al the rate
of 40 miles an hour cost five lives
Sunday afternoon by a terrific col
lision in which over 40 prominent
peopIe 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
ambulaDces 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
lush. on the line of the Albany and
Hudson railway. The point where
the ears met on the single track was
al a sharp curve. and so fast were
both running, and so sudden was
the collision. that the motorman
never had time 10 put on the brakes
before south-bound ear No. - had
gone almost clean through north
bound ear No. II, and hung on the
edge of high cliff. with its load
OF shrieking. manned humanity.
One motorman was pinioned up
against the smashed front of ths
south bound car, with both legs sew
cred and killed instantly, while the
other one lived but "A few minutes.
Fully 120 men. women and children
formed struggling. shrieking pyr-
amid, nixed with blood. detached por.
tions of human bodies and the wreck
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 cars, and al
most every one was taken out in this
way and nearly all were badly in.
nured.
The few women and children who
had escaped injury and death were
historical 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
who 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 gTue-
ssone and silent company. were load
cd on extra ears and taken to Albany.
There ambulances and physicians had
been summoned and the post office
turned into a morgue and hospital.
AS fast as he physicians could tenn
porarily fix up the wounded they
were taken to their homes or 10 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 it was caused by an
attempt of the south-bound car to
reach second switch instead of wait
Ing for the north-boun6 car at The
first siding.
The ears weigh Is tons each ami
are the largest electric cars built,
but SO frightful was the crash that
both cars were almost torn TO splin-
ters. Both ears were filed with Sur
day pleasure seekers returning from
the new recreation grounds that the
railway had just opened.
One of the pathetic incidents of
the disaster was the death of Maude
Kellogg. OF Round Lake. She was
ON the south-bound car with her
jiancde, George c. Barry, of Troy. and
Mr.. lsarry's father. When the crash
came1sbe was crushed TO death almost
instantly Near her. pinned in by the
broken wreckage, lay her sweetheart.
Frantically he tried TO reach her. his
own agonies from internal injuries
forgotten. Finding he could not
move. he appealed 10 his father, who
was extricating himself, but the girl
was dead. On the way TO the city
in The car ne pleaded with those at
tending him 10 let him die. He viii
probably obtain his wish. for his
Injuries are pronounced fatal.
1 Surr.usiera.I himself