The age-herald., 1901-05-27
Women and Children Struggle in a Pyramid of the
 Dead and Dying
MANY PATHETIC INCIDENTS
Both Motcrmen Are Dead and the Cause of the Accident Cannot be Learned-Cars Making
 High Rate of Speed.

Albany N T., May 26.-Electric cars racing for a switch while running in op- posite directions at the rate of forty miles an hour, cost five lives this after noon by terrible collision in which over forty prominent people were injured, some fatally and others seriously.
 The lobby of the local postoffice is filled with dead and wounded, hysterical women and children looking for rela- lives and friends surgeons administering temporary relief, and ambulances racing through the city taking the wounded to hospitals, were the early limitations of the accident. The scene of the accident was point about two miles out of Greenbush, on the line of the Albany and Hudson railroad. The point where the cars met on the single track was at a sharp curve and so fast were both run ming and so sudden was the collision, that the motorman never had time to put on the brakes before the south bound car had gone almost clean through the other car and hung on the edge of high bluff with it's load of shrieking, maimed humanity. One motorman 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.
 Struggling, Shrieking Pyramid.
 Fully 12O 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 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 in- jured.
 The few women and children who had escaped injury and death were hysterical and added their cries to the shrieks of the dying and mutilated 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 a little time their bruised mass of humanity, with the multi lated dead for a grewsome 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 hos pital. As fast as the physicians could temporarily fix up the wounded they were taken to their homes or to the hospital
 Both Motormen Killed.
 With both motormen killed it was hard to get at the real cause of the accident, but it is pretty well determined that 1t was caused by an attempt of the south bound car to reach a second switch in- stead of waiting for the north bound car at the first siding.
 The cars were fifteen tons each and are the largest electric cars built. but so frightful was the crash that both cars were torn almost to splinters. Both cars were filled with Sunday pleasure seekers returning from the new recreation grounds that the railway had just opened. 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. It was at curve between the switches that the two cars met.
 The Dead and Injured.
 Following is a list of casualties in the nollision:
 Killed:
 FRANK SMITH. motorman.
 WILLIAM NICHOLS, motorman.
 MAUD KELLOGG, of Round Lake.
 ANNIE ROONEY, of Stuyvesant Falls. DAVID MAHONEY, mate on the Dean bf Richmond.
 Fatally injured:
 George c. Barry, Troy, hurt internally; Fred J. Smith, Albany. injured inter- nally.
 Seriously injured:
 William F. Barry, Troy, cuts on head: Mary Barry Troy, leg broken: George F. Bittner, Moerville, cut and bruised; Isaac Blauvelt, Albany leg broken; De- witt c. Peltz, Albany, badly bruised; Charles Peltz, Albany, painfully bruised; Howard J. Rogers, Albany. bruised and cuts; Mrs. H. J. Rogers, Albany cut and bruised; Rogers, Albany, leg broken; A. W. Crowtlesy, Albany, hurt internally; George Lane. Albany. badly cut; Frederick Hersogg, Albany, shoul- der dislocated.
 Isaac Blauvelt, clerk in the State rreasurers office. had one leg broken and the other dislocated.
 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 fiancee George c. Barry of this city, and MT. Barry's fa- ther. When the crash came she was crushed to death almost instantly. Near her. pinioned under the debris, lay her sweetheart. Franticaly he tried to reach her. his own agonies from internal in- juries forgotten. Finding he could not move he appealed to his father. who was extricating himself. but the girl was dead. On the way to the city in the car he pleaded with those attending him to let him die. His injuries are pronounced fatal. The Albany and Hudson road is Inc longest road operated by the third