Missouri Valley times., 1901-05-30
DISASTER on A new
YORK STREET RAILWAY.
tive Passenger. Killed Outright and
Forty Hurt, Many Of Them
Seriously.
CARS CRASH ON a CURVE
IS CRASH on A CURVE
They were Racing for switch 1t High
Rate of Speed When They Collided-
Number of tho Injured Will
Not Survive.

racing for switch while running in
opposite directions at the rate Of forty
miles an hour, cost five lives yesterday
afternoon by q terrific collision in
which over forty prominent people
were injured, some fatally and others
seriously.
with dead and wounded, hysterical
women and children looking for rela-
tives and friends. surgeons administer
ing temporary relief and ambulances
racing through the city taking the
wounded to hospitals were the early
;ntimations of the accident.
Killed:
FRANK SMITH, motorman.
VIM. NICHOLS, motorman.
MAUDE KELLOGG, Round Lake.
ANNIE ROONEY. of Stuyvesant
Falls.
Fatally injured:
GEORGE C. BARRY, Troy, hurt in
FRED J. SMITH. Albany. injured In
ternally.
Seriously injured.
VIM. r. Barry, Troy cuts on head.
Mary Barry, Troy, leg broken.
George p. Bittner, Moerville. cut and
bruised.
Isaac Blauvelt, Albany. leg broken.
Dewitt C. PETIT. Albany. badly
Howard, G. Rogers, Albany. bruised
and cut.
Mrs H ]. Rogers, Albany, cut and
bruised.
- Rogers, Albany, broken leg.
A. w. Crotsley, Albany. hurt Intern
| ally.
Geo. Lane, Albany, badly cut.
Fred Herzog, Albany. shoulder dis
| located.
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 sharp
curve and SO fast were both trains run
ming and so sudden was the collision
that the motormen did not have time
to put on the brakes before the south
bound car, No. %. had gone almost
clear through northbound car No. II.
and hung on the edge of high BLUM
with it's load Of shrieking, manned hui
manity. One motorman was pinioned
southbound car with both legs severed
and killed instantly, while the other
| one lived but few minutes
| Fully 12O men, women and children
formed struggling, shrieking pyra-
mid, mixed with blood, detached por-
tions of human bodies. and the wreck
age 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 add.
4 ed their cries to the shrieks OF the
dying and mutilated. Men with brok-
en- arms and bones, dislocated joints
and bloody heads and faces tried tc
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 grue.
some and silent company, were loaded
on extra cars and taken to Albany
There ambulances and physicians had
been summoned and the postoff1ce
turned into morgue and hospital.
AS fast as the physicians could tenn.
porarily fix up the wounded they were
| taken to their homes or to the hispitals
With both motormen killed. 1t wal
hard to get at the real cause Of the &C.
cident, but 1t was pretty well deter.
| mined that 1t was caused by an at.
tempt of the southbound car to reach
| second switch instead OF waiting fol
| the northbound car at the first siding
/ H'he cars weigh 111teen tons eaCh, anC
are the largest electric cars built. bu
SO frightful was the crash that botl
cars were torn almost to eplinters
Both cars were filled with Sunda,
| pleasure seekers returning from thu
| new recreation grounds that the rail
way company had just opened.
| The southbound car left Albany a
| 4:30 o'clock and the accident occurred
at o'clock. The cars on the line wer,
running at switch headway-that ia
as car reached siding switch 1t wal
| supposed to wait until another goint
in the opposite direction passed. Tn,
| motorman Of the southbound ca
reached one Of the switches, but seeing
no northbound car decided to talk
chances and go on to the next siding
| 1t was at a curve between that tn,
two cars met.
One of the pathetic incidents Of tn
disaster was the death of Maude Kel
| logg Of Round Lake. She was on tn
/ southbound car with her flance
rvs father. When the crash came sh
was crushed to death almost instantly
Near her, pinned in by the broker
wreckage, lay her sweetheart. Franti
| cally he tried to reach her. his owl
agonies from internal injuries forgot
| ten, Finding he could not move, he ap
| pealed to his father, who was extricat
1 ing himself. but the girl was dead. o.
the way to the city in the car he plead
ed with those attending him to let hin
die. He will probably obtain his wish
| for his injuries are pronounced fatal.