Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-05-29
FATAL wreck NEAR ALBANY
Electric Cars Going Forty Miles an
Hour Come Together.
BOTH WERE RACING FOR ASWITCH
At Least 80 Men, Women and Children
Were Iurled Together I'm a Mas. of
wrecksye on tho Now Albany Line
Five Ktied Outright and Over Forty
severef Tnjurcd-A Pathetic Incident

Five Kt1cd Outright and Over Forty
severer InJurcd-A Pathetic Incident
Albany. n. Y.-Fivc persons We're
killed andover forty were seriously in
iured In collision between two eiec-
trio cars which We're racing for n
switch atforty miles an hour from op-
posite Directions. The dead are: Maud
Kellogg. OF Round Lake: David Ma
honey. nate OF the Dean Richmond: ::
William Sichols, motorman OF Car No.
II: Franl Smith. motorman OF Car No
22, and annie Roonie, of Stuyvesant
Fails.
The sc,ne OF the accident Is q point
about tw, miles out OF Groenbush. on
the line Of the Albany ard Hudson
Railway The point where the ears
met on I e single track was at u sharp
curve, al SO fast were both running
and so udden was the collision that
the motrmen had not time to put on
the braks before Souih-hound Car No
80 had gone almost clean through
north-blnd Car No. II and hung ON
the edg OF high bluff. with it's load
or shr!esiDg, manned humanity. One
smashc. front of the south-bound car
with b,th legs severed and died in.
stantly While The other one lived but
few minutes.
Fully 120 men, women and children
formc a huge. struggling. shrick:ng
pyramid. mixed with the wrackawe OF
the care Some OF the less seriously
INJURED or the men eXtricatcd them
selves, ana began to pull people out OF
tue rea. ends of the two cars. and nj.
most every one taken ont In this NAV
WAS bally Injured The scenes We're
heartrelding. The few women and
children who had escaped injury and
death we're hysterical. and added their
cries Il the shrie!iS Of the dying and
mutilia ed Men with broken arms
and bo!es. dislocated joints and bloody
hends' nj faces tried To assist others
wbe wre more helpless
deiphad been summoned from East
Freeniush and vicinity. and in y little
true tae bruised mass of humanity
wHh tie mutilated dead were loaded
o, extra cars and taken to Albany.
Tpere ambulanccS had been summoned
a'u The postoffice was turned into n
mFsue and Hospital As fast as tho
pha .inns could temporarily treat the
woriqed they were taken to thein
honn, or to the hospitals in carriages
Or Eespital ambulances
NoN both motormen killed il was
harS'.o get at the real cause OF the ac-
eide but ii is practically determined
thatn't was caused by an attempt %
the iuth-bound car 10 reach a second
swifsG. instead OF waiting for the
nortcibound Mt the first siding.
Tlh- cars wcipb Gftprn tnnu o,.h
snd'er the largest electric ears built.
but al frightful WAS the crash that
bott eears were torn almost TO splint-
ers. The cars on the line were running
at itch headway. that il. as car
reacSsd siding switch 1t was sup
posen to wait until another going in
the opposite direction passed. The
mote oman or the south bound car
reacphd one Of the switches. but see
ing H. north-bound car decided to take
charles and go oil to the next. 1t was
al III curve between that the two ears
met.h
Oh OF the pathetic incidents of the
dsai'ter was the death Of Maudc Kel-
logs OF Round Lake. She was on the
soit.A-bound car with her fiancc.
George G. Barry. OF Troy. and Mr..
Barry's father and sister. When the
crash came she was crushed to death
almost Instantly Near her. pinned
In by broken wreCkagc, lay her sweet
heart Frantically he tried to reach
her, his own aGonics from internal in
juries forgo. en- Finding he could
not move. lie appealed To bis father.
who was eXtricatng himself. but the
girl was dead. On the way to the city
in the car he pleaded with those at
tending him to lie. him die and join his
sweetheart He probably will obtain
his wish. for his injuries were pro
nOuEced fatal.
The company has been operating its
line for about 4 year II is The longest
stretch OF tliird-rail system in the Uni
ted States, extending from Albany 10
Hudson. The motive power is OBJ
tanned from StuyYesan; Falls. and is
sufh ciently strong TO run the cars ut
high rate of speed, as has been demon
go. aIF Fra