The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-11-14
TROOP TRAIN IN WRECK
Fatal Rear End Collision on tho
3. 6 M. at Lansingburg.
special Carrying Regular Army SOL
diers Dashes Into Passenger Ex- .
press-Eride Of a Day Killed.

Troy, N. Y.-Flying around a
curve and past a fiagman frantically
signally the engineer to stop, a spec
ial train on the Boston and Maine
Railroad, bearing men and horses of
the Second Squadron. Fifteenth
United States Cavalry on their way
from Fort Ethan Allen to Cuba.
crashed into the Boston Express.
The meeting of the trains took place
at the L~ansingburg station, just
north of Troy. Five persons were
killed and fourteen others were in
jured.
Two of the three Pullman cars at
the end Of the express train, which
was standing on the track 100 yards
from the fatal curve waiting for the
northbound express to pass, : were
completely demolished.
The last car was hurled down a
thirty-foot embankment. All those
killed were occupants of this car.
Thirty others were in this car. The
Pullman next to it was toppled over
into the bank next to the track, while
the third Pullman, the five coaches
and two baggage cars of the train re-
manned on the track.
The dead: F. l.. Block, a wealthy
merchant of Peoria, ILL.,; Mrs. j. w.
Dacey, Arlington, Mass, married one
day; Mrs. H. s. Poole, Concord, N.
H., an actress Of the "Silver King"
company, and known on the stage as
Miss Howard; Mrs. Wallace E. Shaw,
Bath. Me-; Mrs. George D. Stevens,
Winchester, Mass.
The wreck occurred at a point
where the grade is one of the steep
est on the road. The passenger
train consisted of a baggage car,
smoker, day car and two parlor cars.
There is a sharp curve a short dis
lance away and the putting of a loco
motive just around the curve was the
first intimation of the approaching
Special which came laundering
along with eighteen cars on the steep
grade. A second later it crashed
into the rear end of the passenger
train, smashing the two Pullman cars
like eggshells.
Many Of the passengers had left
the train when it stopped and were
walking up and down the track when
the crash came. To this some Of
them probably owe their lives.
The troopers performed heroic SER
vice. In the absence Of the police,
who we're all in their annual parade,
Lieutenant-Colonel Hardie in com
mand of the cayalrymen, took COM
plete charge and established a cor
don of pickets around the wreck,
His men we're impressed into SER
vice, taking out the dead and in
jured from the wreck and carrying
them to places Of safety. The troop
ers acted as ambulance men and as
sisted in carrying the injured to the
hospitals. None Of the soldiers was
injured. Their train was taken back
to Melrose, where the troopers
camped that night.
The death Of Mrs. Dacsy was one
of peculiar sadness, for she and her
husband we're married the night be-
fore at Arlington and were on their
honeymoon, with New York as the
objective point. Engineer Holloran
says he saw q man and woman stand.
ing on the rear end of the Pullman
car Just before he jumped from his
engine. The facts prove that this
couple we're Mr.. and Mrs. Dacey. Mr..
Dacey was slightly injured. He was
one of the first to find his brides
body, and it is said that she breathed
her last in his arms. .