Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-27
DEAD AND DYING 1T ALBANY
Sunday Collision While the Cars
 Were Speeding Along.


 to Reach Switch Was Met By the
 Other While Rounding Curve
 Both Were Going at High Speed.
 Albany, N. Y, May 27.-Further in- formation from the vicinity of the col lision on the Albany and Hudson rall- way near East Greenbush yesterday shows that the number of injured is over fifty. There have been no other deaths. however.
 Two of the big motor cars on the Albany and Hudson Railway and Power company's line about two miles beyond east of Greenbush and SIX miles from Albany collided yesterday while going full speed. The accident occurred while the cars were running at rate of between thirty and forty miles an hour. The two cars which met in the crash were crowded with passengers, the car which left Albany at 3:30 o'clock, bound south, ill charge of motorman Smith, having refused to take on any more owing to lack of seat ing accommodations. The north bound car from Hudson which came in collision with car p, was car 19, and is believed to have contained as many passengers as could be com fortably cared for This car was in charge of Motorman Nichols.
 The Albany and Hudson company's cars are extra large and heavy vehicles, about the size of a steam railroad coach. They have carried large loads of passengers on Sunday into the pret ty country towns of Rensselaer, county, and to-day the complements of passen- gers were especially heavy, the com pany having opened pleasure park at Kinderhook lake.
 The road is single-track line with switchings and sidings, and the two cars, bound in opposite directions, were trying to make a switch when they dashed into each other while rounding curve. The force of the col lision drove the southDound car, No 9, more than half through the one coming north, and therefore the greater number of those injured were contain ed in the car from Hudson Both mo- tormen were killed, and therefore de- finite explanation of the cause of the. accident may never be obtained. The cars blocked the track and for hours it was exceedingly difficult to get news from the scene of the accident.
 According to statements of passen- gers on the ill-fated cars a distance of less than fifty feet remained to bc covered between the cars when the motormen saw each other, and it was then too late to avoid the crash. The southbound car at that time was run ming on downward grade, and its momentum was the greater when the two came together.
 The people on the cars had no know ledge of the impending accident until the cars struck and they were hurled form their seats, some going through the windows, others into the aisles and into promiscuous heaps under the wreckage. The bodies of the motormen were horribly crushed and mangled.
 The shrieks of the injured and the dying brought swiftly to the scene peo- pie living in the vicinity. The physi- clans from the nearby villages of East. Greenbush and East Schodack were quickly on the ground, and word was telephoned to Albany for further aid and assistance. The work of rescue was directed by the officers of the company, who as speedily as possible secured a car and loaded the injured in- to it and had them brought into Al bany. The bodies of the dead were taken to Renssalaer.
 The killed are: Frank Smith, motor Iior NJe man of car 10; Maud Kellok of Round Lake, Annie Rooney of Stuyvesant Falls and David Mahoney, mate on the steamer Dean Richmond.
 The list of the injured includes the following: George c. Barry of Troy, hurt internally and may die; William D. Barry, father of George c. Barry, cut on the head, not dangerous; Marie Barry, his sister, leg broken; George F. Bittner of Niyerville. not serious; Fred J. Smith of 327 Central avenue, Albany, injured about the head and back and also internally. but may re- cover; Isaac Blauyelt of Albany, clerk in the state treasurer's office one leg broken and the other dislocated: John Dewitt PeltZ, wife and child of Albany, sustained painful bruises; A. W. Crots- ley of Albany, hurt internally; Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction Howard J. Rogers, wife and boy, all slightly injured, the most seriously in jured being the boy, whose leg was broken; Mrs H. C. Miller of Rensselaer,, internal injuries, probably fatal
 Others reported more or less injured include Fred Herzog, Joseph Lane, Hugh McCann, Charles Keller and Lou is Weller of Albany; Mrs William Smith, Mrs Mary Schermeyer, Lamuel Harrington and wife and Mrs William Nichols of Rensselaer, and F. Forkey of Schenectady.
 The Albany and Hudson road is the longest stretch of third-rail system in the United States, and has been rum ming cars for less than year. It's in- ception was the consolidation of the Kinderhook and Hudson steam road and projected electric line to be run between Albany and Nassau. New York fnanciers become interested ill it on account of the vast possibilities of electric power generation at Stuyyes- ant Falls, which 1t was ascertained could be utilized for running cars and lighting all the surrounding country