Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-05-27
RACE
Was a Ride to
Death.
Frishtful Collision of
Trolley Cars.
Six Passengers Killed,
Many Injured.
One Car Ploushed Clear Through
Another.

Albany, N. Y, May 27.-(Spl.)-Elec-
tric cars racing for a switch while
running in opposite directions at the
rate of forty miles an hour cost FIVE
lives yesterday afternoon by a terrific
collision in which over forty prominent
people were injured, some fatally,
and others seriously.
The scene of the accident was a
point about two miles out on the
Greenbush line of the Albany & Hud-
| son railway. The point where the
cars met on the single track was at
a sharp curve and SO fast were both
running and 80 sudden was the col
lision that the motorman never had
! time to put on the brakes before
southbound cur No. 22 had gone al
most clean through northbound car
No. II and hung on the edge of u
high bluff, with it's load of shrieking,
manned humanity. One motorman was
pinned up against the smashed front
of the southbound car with both legs
severed and killed instantly, while
the other one lived but a FEW minutes
Il Fully 120 men, women and children
formed q struggling, shrieking pyra-
mid, mixed with blood, detached por-
tons Of human bodies and the wreck
age Of the cars. Some of the slightly
injured of the men eXtricatcd them
selves and began to pull people out Of
the rear ends Of the two cars and
almost everyone was taken out In
this way and nearly all were badly
injured ,alla a
The few women and children who
had escaped injury and death We're
hysterical and added their cries to the
shrleks of the dying and mutilated.
Men with broken arms and bones, dis
located Joints and bloody heads and
faces tried pp assist others who were
more helpless. Help had been sum
moned from East Greenbush and vi.
cinity and in little time the bruised
mass OF humanity, with the mutilated
dead for grewsome and silent com
pany, were loaded on extra cars and
taken to Albany. There ambulances
and physicians had been summoned
and the postotfice turned into a
morgue and hospital. AS fast as the
, physicians could temporarily fix up the
. wounded they were taken to thell
. homes or to the hospitals.
. With both motormen killed, 1t wat
I, hard to get ut the real cause of thu
" accident, but it is pretty well deter
" mined that It was caused by an ut
" tempt of the southbound ear to reacl
u second switch instead of waiting
: for the northbound car at the frs
!. siding.
The cars weigh fifteen tons each an,
n are the largest electric cars built, bu
" so frlghtful was the crash that boil
ears were torn almost to splinters
!. pleasure seekers, returning from tn
v new recreation grounds that the rail
n way had just opened.
" The dead-Frank Smith, motorman
" william Nichols, motorman; Mau,
~ Kellogg, of Round Lake; Annie Room
" ey of Stuyvcsant Falls; David Ma
= honey, mate on the Dean Richmond.
y Fatally injured George G.. Barry
" Troy, hurt internally; Fred ]. Smith
" Albany, injured internally.
!" Seriously injured william It. Barry
!" Troy, cuts on head; Marie Barry, Troy
!" leg broken; George L. Bittnor Mooi
y Vile, cut and bruised; Isaac Blauvel
" Albany, leg broken; Dewitt O. Petit
70 Albany, badly bruised; Charles Polt.
v Albany. painfully bruised; Howard ,
o. Rogers, Albany, bruised and cut; Mrs
n II. j. Rogers, Albany cut anC
" bruised; Mr., Rogers, Albany, lie
q" broken; A. w. Crctsley, Albany, hur
I" internally; George Lane, Albany, bat
." ly cut; Fred Herzog, Albany, shoulde
e dlslocatcd,