Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-05
HURLED TO DEATH
Two Cars Crashed Together
 Coming Down an Incline.
BOTH CARS WERE CROWDED.

BOTH CARS WERE CROWDED. Passengers Were Hurled Over En- bankmenfs and Under the Cars-At Least Thirteen are Dead and Many Are Seriously Injured-The Motor man on the Down Car Lost Control and When the Crash Game His Car Was Going at Frightful Speed. UTICA, N. T., July 5.-A terrible ac- eldent happened on an electric rail- road near Gloversville late last night in the. shape of collision between two cars crowded with passengers, by which fifteen people were killed and twenty-nine injured.
 The electric road on which the ac- cident occurred connects Gloversville with a popular place of resort or pie nic ground. As it was the Fourth of July the place was crowded with pleas ure seekers. Last night the cars were crowded with people coming home from the grounds. The Mountain Lake railway tracks follow the side of mountain, the grade being about 1000 feet in four miles, Coming down the incline the motorman of car carry ing about seventy people lost control of the car, which in a short distance acquired a frightful velocity. Then it met car ascending the mountain and also carrying about seventy passen- gers. The impact was terrific, but for a few moments neither car left the track, the ascent of the one being over come by the rush of the other, and for a Distance of several hundred feet they went on down the incline. Then they left the rails, and dead and wounded were hurled together in an inextrica- bIe mass.
 The following is complete list of dead and injured:
 Mrs Edward J. Baird.
 Miss ElecIa Baird.
 Miss Margaret Main.
 Mrs Ornan Eastman.
 Edward Davis.
 Edward I. Trevitt.
 Joseph Saloy.
 Mrs Joseph Saloy.
 Isadore nothberg.
 Fred Cronin.
 Mrs Maria Annabel, Worthwhile, N. '. The injured:
 The following of tSc i-jured were iken to the Nathan Littauer hospital: Recorder Frank Wood both legs broken below knee; condition serious Mrs Wilmarth, internal injuries; seri- Dus condition.
 Mrs Herbert Maxson, cut about head; not serious.
 Mrs E. L. heacock, face badly cut; not serious.
 James Heacock, son of MT and Mrs E. L. Heacock, fracture of right leg. bruise nhip.
 Miss Lucy Heacock, daughter of MT and Mrs B. l.. Heacock, leg broken. Robert Butler, cut about head and internal injuries.
 Miss Ruby Hines, shock and pressure Of car against body; not believed to be serious.
 Miss Louise Chapman, badly Bruised and suffered severe shock and internal injuries.
 Arthur Perkins, motorman, right shoulder dislocated
 Herbert Maxson, clerk at Windsor hotel, right knee crushed; amputation not considered necessary
 Benjamin Rice, two scalp wounds, both legs broken. Orrin Eastman, internal injuries.
 Nathan Johnson, Mayfeld, bc&h legs severely bruised.
 George Fisher, head bruised ana in ternal injuries
 William Dodge, motorman of runa- way car, legs broken; condition seri- ous.
 William Brown, Kingsboro, left leg broken in two places.
 Charles Brown, son of William Brown, compound fracture of right leg.
 Robert Saloy, boy, cut about face and bruised, not serious.
 Edward ScheT, right leg broken, terribly injured about abdomen and hips; condition serious.
 Mrs George Fisher, left leg broken below knee.
 Among those who were injured, but did not go to the hospital were the fol- lowing:
 Miss Freeman, bruised about head
 Miss Leggins, bruised about body
 Mrs Archer. bruised about body.
 Mrs Jacob Frommer, side hurt.
 Miss Ray, bruised about body.
 John Hine, face badly bruised and generally hurt.
 Maggie Filmer, leg badly hurt, pos sib1y broken.
 Mrs George Trouble, two ribs brok- en.
 George Trouble, badly bruised about body.
 Miss Butler, badly bruised about body.
 MT and Mrs William Place, badly bruised about body.
 Mrs George Fisher left leg broken.
 John Hine, badly bruised.
 Maggie Filmer, leg badly hurt
 Mrs George Trouble, two ribs broken.
 THE FOURTH IN CHICAGO.
 Chicago JuIy 5.-Three persons were