New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
DEATH ON ROAD
FIVE VICTIMS OF COLLISION NEAR
ALBANY.
ELECTRIC CARS AT FULL SPEED WITH
MANY PERSONS ABOARD, MEET
CTTRVE
ON CURVE.
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| news that by the collision of two late this
| afternoon upon the Albany and Hudson Ran
| way five persons had been killed and twenty
| injured 1t was head-on collision, and both of
the motOrmen and three passengers were IN
stantly killed and many passengers were hurt.
| The accident took place six miles southeast OF
Albany and two miles east of Greenbush AS
soon as possible the dead and injured were
brought here, the corridor of the postottice Tor
| the time being converted into a reception nos
pital. and later some of the injured persons
were taken to the Albany Hospital and others TO
| their homes
The news of the accident spread over both
| Albany and Troy and brought many persons to
| the newspaper offices in the two cities to learn
| the particulars of the disaster. it being known
that both Albany and Troy passengers were on
| board the wrecked cars. 1t reported here
tonight that some of those injured were taken
| to Troy and others to farmhouses in the Vicln-
| ity of the place where the accident occurred,
| so that the list of the injured may be increased
| to- morrow.
| The road upon which the accident occurred is
| partly trolley and partly Of the third rail sys-
| tenn. In Albany the trolley system is used but
| in the open country the third rail system is en-
| ployed, and here the cars frequently run at the
| rate of forty miles hour. The cars when
came into collision to-day were running at that
rate. The day a pleasant one, and there
| fore travel was heavy upon the road everywhere
| between Albany and Hudson. When car No. -
| in charge of Frank Smith motorman, left
| Albany at 8 p. IN. it held about seventy-hve
| passengers. The car reached siding No 80. and
barely stopping to let off nine passengers, sped
| onward.
| MOTORMAN SAID TO HAVE MADE ERROR.
1t is said that Smith made an error in at
| tempting TO make the next siding. II he did
| he atoned for it with his life. for the car
| had proceeded only short distance when north
| bound car No. II in charge Of William Nichols
suddenly appeared around a curve. and before
| either motorman could apply the brakes shut
| off the electricity the crashed into each
| other. Both cars were full of passengers and
/ both running at high rate Of speed. The
| southbound almost ploughed through the
nOrthbound car, which was in a slight de-
| preston in the tracIs.
Both cars wrecked. One motorInan was
! pinned among the timbers of his car and
| instantly killed. The other motorman was so
| badly injured that he lived only few moments
| The unlnjured passengers leaped from the cars,
but swiftly returned to the rescue of the injured
| and physicians were summoned from the sur
rounding country and from Albany. II two
| hours later, however. before the injured passen-
| gers could be conveyed back To Albany. The
| list Of the dead has 1t these names
| KELLOGG Maud. of Round Lake.
| MAHONEY Daniel. Of Albany.
NICHOLS, William motornan OF No. II. OF Green
| ROONEY. Annie of stuyvesant Falls
SMITH. Frank. motorman OF No. %. Greenbush.
Among those injured We're
BARRY, George c. Of Troy seriously hurt
| BARRY. William T, o Troy.
| BARRY. Thomas of Troy
Sday ons a @ n Broken PGyg sSs S1 hs
| CROTSLEY. A. W. Of Albany.
| PELTZ. Dewitt c.. Albany.
| SMITH. Frederick J.. Of Albany.
| STORY OF A PASSENGER
| One Of the passengers on the southbound car
was Howard J. Rogers, of Albany. the Deputy
| Superintendent OF Public Instruction Mr.
| Rogers was accompanied by Mrs. Rogers and
| by their young son and daughter. Mr. Rogers
| his wife and son all injured. In describing
the accident afterward Mr.. Rogers said:
My recollection of what happened before the
| cars came together is rather vague. We pro-
car being well filled with passengers including
my children and myself were seated in the rear
| Of the The car should say. accommodated
| The accident occurred after had passed a
switch beyond which was curve where the
| tracks skirt what appeared TO be an embankment
| We did not seem TO lessen in speed as We neared
| far as my memory can recall before the crash
As we dashed around the curve the cars met
with terT5hG force Ihe eXpfrH9ee was something
| we were seated fairly pioughed the entire length
| The crash of the cars succeeded by OF the
most awful scenes ever have witnessed and by
| the shrieks and groans of the wounded men
| tracks. buried amid the debris. Mrs Rogers.
the front OF the car over the seats and thrown
were buried dozens of other passengers
| boy however we're able 20 help ourselves He suso
| tained a broken leg and had to be dug out OF the
| Wreckage. My wife suffered several cuts the
| face and am slightly scratched. Our little girl
fortune 10 the fact that seated at the
Of the car. Where the responsibility for the acci
mOtorman ought to have waited the switch for
| cIuded TO take chances upon reaching the next
switch. How much truth there is in this story I
cannot state.
| The Rogers boy is also injured internally and
| 1t is feared has also had his other leg broken.
1t was learned late tonight that Daniel Ma
honey who killed. was the mate of the
| steamer Dean Richmond. which arrived here
this morning from New-York.
The Albany and Hudson Railway has been
| operating its line for about year. 1t has the
longest line of the third rail system-about thirty
miles-in the United States The motive power
| electricity, is obtained from Stuyvesant Falls.
and IL is sufficiently strong to run the at
| the rate of less than mile minute has
| been demonstrated frequently the road The
chief attorney of the road is William F. Sheehan.
of the firm of Sheehan & Collin. Its legal work
| in Albany. however. is attended TO by David B.
| Hill.
The directors of the Albany and Hudson Rail-
road, who elected on April 2, are Governor
Foster NJ. Voorhees, of New Jersey Clinton NJ.
RoSSiter, Henry Seibert, William +. Sheehan,
r. A. C. Smith, Seth l.. Keeney. Alden NJ. Young.
James Purcell and H. G. Runkle.
1t reported after midnight that seven
persons had been killed by the accident but the
names of two of the dead could not be ascer
tanned