Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-10-05
TROOPERS
KILLED IN
COLLISION.
Military Special Hit Boston Local
at lansinghurg Five Dead
and Many Badly Hurt.
over AN EMBANKMENT.
Wreck Occurred Opposite Station
Soldiers Were on Their Way to
Embark for Cuba-Four Troops
of the Fourteenth United States
Cavalry Were ON Their Way From
Fort Ethan Allen to Newport News

Fort Ethan Allen to Newport News
LANSINGBURG, n. Y, Oct. 5.-Five
passengers were killed outright and a
score were more or less seriously in
jured in rear end collision between a
regular passenger train and a military
special carrying the Fifteenth United
States cavalry on the Boston and
Maine railroad at the station here,
three miles north Of Troy, n. Y.
The soldiers We're on their way to
embark for Cuba. One of the women
killed, Mrs. j. w. Dacey, was Il bride
of day.
The dead are: Il. L. Block, Peoria,
ILL.,; Mrs. Wallace e. Shaw, Bath. Me;
Mrs. Stevens, Boston; Mrs. ]. w. Da-
cey, Arlington, Mass, and Mrs. H. S.
Poole, Concord, n. III.
The list of those badly injured thus
far obtainable is as follows: w. Van
Fassett and wife, Boston, seriously
burned; Frank Belcher, Medford.
Mass, head cut and both legs frac-
tured George ID. Stevens, Winchester
Mass, compound fracture of ankle and
arm smashed; Miss Mauson, Bath. Me-,
back badly sprained; Miss Virginia
Mauson, a sister, three ribs broken;
E. I. La RouX, private, Fort Ethan Al
len, arm smashed; Louis Balch. New
buryport, Mass, cut about head; Mrs.
Louis Balch, broken nose and severely
bruised; w. II. Seymour, Kenton, O.,
scalp wounds; Mrs. Frank Briard, Bos-
ton, badly cut about head and face and
suffering from shock; Mrs. +. l.. Block,
Peoria, ILL.,. fractured spine; Miss Ma
son, Bath, Me-, leg smashed.
The wreck occurred directly in front
of the Lansingburg station at point
where the aade is one of the steepest
on the liae OF the road, which winds it's
way through the mountainous country
to Boston.
The passenger train was one of the
best equipped as well as one of the
fastest on the road. 1t is a regular
train, known as No. 5. 1t consisted of
five cars-a baggage car, smoker, day
coach and two parlor cars The train
was about one hour late when it pulled
up in front of the Lansingburg station
to wait for chance to get into the
Troy depot.
Some of the railroad men say that as
soon as the train stopped fagman
was sent to the rear to signal approach
ing trains. Nothing definite can be
learned on this point.
The snorting of q locomotive lust
around the curve was the first intima-
ton of the approaching special"
which came laundering along with
eighteen cars on the steep grade. and
in the fraction of second it had crash
ed into the rear end of the passenger
train, smashing the last two cars,
which were Pullmans, like eggshells.
: Both Of these cars We're swept from
the track and rolled down the en-
bankment into the back yards of some
tenement houses locartsu along the
track. The engine of the special kept
right on for dozen yards and then
turned turtle, the front end blowing
into the ground and the tender backing
into the car behind and telescoping it,
There was a sudden hush and then
through the gathering dusk rose the
cries of injured and dying. The place
where the wreck occurred is difficult
of approach, and it was some time be-
fore Lansingburgers realized the trage-
DIV that had been enacted in their
midst.
The special was drawing four troops
of the Fourteenth United States caval-
~ from Fort Ethan Allen to Newport
News, where they are to embark for
Cuba. The soldiers lost no time in re-
covering from the shock of the COLI
sion and quickly got to work to rescue
the injured, whose cries for help rose
high above the yells of the railroad
men giving orders for their assistance.
One mans grief was p,tiable. Ibis
name was j. w. Dacey, and he ran up
and down the track crying for his
wife, in q few minutes when her life
less form was identified by him he col
lapsed completely and was taken to a
nearby house.
There he said that he had been mar
ried Wednesday night at Arlington,
Mass. The couple We're on their honey
moon and had planned an extended
trip. He made arrangements to have
the body of his bride shipped back to
Arlington.
Engineer Thomas Holleran of the
special, who lives in Troy directly fol
lowing the wreck went down to the
police station in Lansingburg and sur
rendered himself. He was locked up
and would make no statement to those
who sought TO get his explanation of
who had been at fault