Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-05-29
TRACTION COLLISION.
Five Persons Killed and a Number
Seriously Injured.
Men with broken Arms. Di-iocated
joints aad Bioody Heads Tried
to Assist other. Who Were
More ucIpie...


cars racing for switch while rum
ming in opposite directions mt the rate
Of 40 miles an hour cost five lives
sunday afternoon by terrific col
lision in which over 40 promincnS
people were injured, some fatally
and Others seriously
The lobby of the local post Office
filed with dead and wounded. hys-
'tcrical women and children looking
for relatives and friends. surgeons
administering temporary relief, and
nmbulances racing through the city,
taking the wounded TO the hospital,
were the early intimatious OF the
accident.
The scene of the accident was n
point about two miles ont of Green
bush. on the line OF the Albany and
Hudson railway. The point where
the ears met on the single track was
at n sharp curve, and SO fast were
both running, and so sudden was
the collision, that the motorman
never had time 20 put on the brakes
before south-bound car No. 80 had
gone almost clean through north
edge OF u high clifr. with it's load
OF shrieking, MANNED humanity.
One motorman was pinioucd up
against the smashed front of the
south-bound ear. with both legs sew
cred and killed instantly, while tho
other one lived but few minutes.
Fully 100 men, women and children
formed struggling, shrieking pyr-
amid, mixed with blood. detached por-
tons of human bodies and the wreck
age of the cars.
Some OF the more slightly injured
of the men eXtricated themselves.
and began To pull people out of the
rear ends Of the two ears, and al
most every one was taken out i'm this
way and nearly all were badly in
jured.
The few women and children who
had escaped injury and death were
hysterical and added their cries 10
the shricks of the dying and multi
ntcd. Men with broken arms and
bones, dislocated joints and bloody
heads and faces tried TO assist others
who were more helpless.
Grcenbush and vicinity, and in n little
time the bruised mass of humanity.
Will, the mutilated dead for a grue-
some and silent company, were load
ed on extra cars and taken TO Albany.
There anbulances and physicians had
been summoned and the post office
turned into morgue and hospital.
AS fast as 'he physicians could tenn
porarily fix up the wounded they
were taken to their homes or to The
hospitals.
With both motormen killed. IL WAS
hard To get at the real cause of the
accident, hut IL is pretty well de-
termined that IL was caused by an
attempt Of the south-bound car to
reach n second switch instead OF wait-
ing for the north bound car at the
first siding.
The cars weigh Is tons each AMI
are the largest electric cars built.
but so frightful was the crash that
both cars were almost torn TO splin-
ters. Both ears were filed with Sur
day pleasure seekers returning rom
the new recreation grounds that the
railway had just opened
One Of the pathetic incidents OF
The disaster was the death OF Maude
kellogg, OF Round Lake. She was
on the sou;h-bound car with her
iiancee, George &. Barry. OF Troy, and
Mr. Barry's father. When the crash
came she was crushed 70 death almost
instantly. Near her. pinned in by the
broken wreckage, lay her sweetheart.
Frantically he tried TO reach her his
own ngonies from internal injuries
forgotten. Finding he could not
move, he appealed 10 his father, who
was eNtricating himself. but the girl
was dead. On the way 20 the city
IN the car ne pleaded with those at
tending hir 10 let him die. lie will
probably obtain his wish. for his
in itfrfpg are nrpngHnroI Tot,T