The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-27
Killed

Killed
FRANK SMITH, motorman.
WILLIAM NICHOLS, motorman.
MAUD KELLOGG, Round Lake
ANNIE ROONEY. Stuyvesant Falls.
DAVID MAHONEY, mate on the Dean
Fatally Injured
GEORGE c. BARRY, Troy. hurt in
ternally.
FRED j.. SMITH. Albany. injured in
Seriously Injured
w LILLIAN f. BARRY, Troy, cuts on
head.
MARY BARRY, Troy. leg broken.
GEORGE p. BITTNER. Moorville. cut
and bruised
ISAAC BLAUvELT, Albany. leg broken.
DEWITT c. PEL1Z. Albany badly
bruised
CHARLES PELTz. Albany. painfully
bruised.
HOWARD j. ROGERS, Albany. bruised
and cut.
MRS; H. J. ROGERS. Albany. cut and
- ROGERS. Albany. leg broken
ternaly.
GEORGE LANE Albany. badly cut.
FRED HERZOG, Albany. shoulder dis
located.
The scene of the accident was a point
about two miles out of Greenbush. on the
line of the Albany & Hudson Railway. The
point where the cars met on the single
track was at a sharp curve, and so fast
were both running. and so sudden was the
collision. that the motorman never had
time to put on the brakes before south
bound car No % had gone almost clean
through north-bound car No. II, and hung
on the edge Of high bluff, with its load Of
shrieking. manned humanity
One motorman was pinioned up against
the smashed front of the south-bound car
with both legs severed and killed Instantly
while the other one lived but a few min
utes.
Fully one hundred and twenty men and
women formed a struggling, shrieking
pyramid. mixed with blood detached por-
tions OF human bodies and the wreckage
OF the cars. Some of the men extricated
themselves and began to pull people out
OF the rear ends OF the two cars and al
most every one was taken out in this way.
and nearly all were badly injured. The
few women and children who had escaped
injury and death were hysterical and added
mutilated. Men with broken arms and
bones. dislocated joints. and bloody heads
and faces, tried TO assist others who were
more helpless. Help had been summoned
from East Greenbush and vicinity and in a
little time the bruised mass of humanity.
with the mutilated dead. forming
gruesome and silent company,
were loaded on extra cars and
taken TO Albany. There ambulances
and physicians had been summoned and the
postofice turned into morgue and hos
pital- As fast as the physicians could tenn
porarily fix up the wounded they were
taken 10 their homes or TO the hospitals.
CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT.
With both OF the motormen killed II was
hard to get at the real cause OF the acct
dent. but II Is pretty well determined that
it caused by an attempt of the south
bound car 10 reach a second switch instead
OF waiting for the north-bound car at the
first siding. The cars weigh fifteen tons
and are the largest electric cars built. but
frightful the crash that both cars
were torn almost 10 splinters
Both care were filed with Sunday pleas
ure seekers returning from the new recre-
alton grounds that the railway had just
opened. The south-bound car left Albany
o'clock. The cars on the line were runn-
ing at switch headway-that Is. as a car
reached a siding switch 1t supposed 10
wait until another going in the opposite di-
rection passed. The motoTman OF the south
bound car reached one of the switches. but
seeing no nOrthbound car. decided TO take
chances and 20 on TO the next siding. II
was at the curve between the two that
the cars met.
Among the passengers on the south-bound
car was Deputy Superintendent Howard j.
Rogers. OF the State Department OF Pub
lie Instruction. He was accompanied by
Mrs Rogers and their young son and
daughter all OF whom were slightly in
tured. with the exception OF the daughter.
Speaking OF the accident, Mr. Rogers said:
My recollection of what happened as the
cars came together Is rather vague. We
were proceeding southwark at a very rapid
rate OF speed. our car being well filled with
passengers. including many women and
children. Fortunately. my wife my chill
dren and myself were seated In the rear of
the car. The car. should say. accommo-
dated between seventy-hve and one hum
dred persons. The accident occurred after
We had passed a switch. beyond when
was a curve where the track skirts what
appeared 10 be an embankment- We did