The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-05
FIVE KILLED AND SCORE
 INJURED ON THE B. & N.
REAR-END COLLISION NBETWEEE REGULAR TRAIN AND MILL
 TARY SPECIAL.

Wreck Occurs Three Miles From Troy
 at Point Where Grade is One O.
 Steepest on Line-Regular Stops a
 Lansingburgh and Special Withour
 Warning Crashes Into It Smashine
 Two PulImans Like EggshelIs-
 Special Filled With Soldiers Bound
 for Cuba.
 Lansingburg, N. Y, Oct. Hive pas sengers were killed outright and score were more or less seriously injured in a rear-end collision between a regular passenger train and military special on the Boston and Maine railroad three miles north of Troy shortly before five o'clock to-day.
 The dead are: F. l.. Block, Peoria, H.; Mrs. Wallace p. Shaw, Bath, Me; Mrs. ---- Stevens, Baston, Mass. Mrs. J. W. Dacey, Arlington, Mass. Mrs. H. s. Pasle, Concord, N. H.
 The list of injured thus far obtaina- ble at the local hospitals follows: w. Van Fassett and wife, Boston, serious ly burned; Frank Belcher, Medford, Mass, head cut and both legs frac- tured; George D. 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; F, T. LaRoux, private, Fort Ethan Allen, arm crushed; Louis Balch and wife, Moc Mr Dn1 about head, Mrs Balch cut about nose and severely bruised; W. H. Seymour, Kenton, Ohio, scalp wounds; Mrs. Frank Briard, Boston, badly cut about head and face, and suffering from shock; Mrs F. L. Block, Peoria, Ill, fractured spine: Miss Mason, Bath, Me, head gashed; Mrs. Bennett, AL bany, severe shock; F. A. Mitchell Falmouth, Maine, head and face cut.
 The wreck occurred directly in front of the Lansingburgh station three miles from Troy, and at point where the grade is one of the steepest on the line ofthe road which winds its way through the mountainous country to Boston. The elevation is about twenty feet with steep eunbankment, where the collision took place. 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 at No. and leaves Boston daily at 9:30 a. m. for Albany. It generally consists, as 1t did to-day of five cars, a baggage car, smoker, day coach and two parlor cars. As near as can be ascertained the train was about one hour late to-day when it pulled up in front of the Lansing burgh station to wait for chance to get into the Troy depot.
 Some of the railroad men say that as soon as the train stopped flagman was sent to the rear to signal approach ing trains Nothing definite can be learned on this point. There is a sharp curve a short distance above the scene of the collision. The noise 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, and in the fraction of a second had crashed into the rear end of the passenger train, smashing the last two cars, which were Pullmans, like egg shells.
 Both these cars were swept from the track and rolled down the embank- ment into the backyards of tenement houses.
 The engine of the special kept right cl for dozen yards and then turned turtle. The tender was thrown into the
 11o was a sudden hush and then through gathering dusk rose the cries of injur- ed anl dying. The place where the wreck occurred is difficult of approach, and it was some time before Lansing burghers realized the tragedy that had been enacted in their midst
 The special was drawing four troops of the Fourteenth United States cav airy from Fort Ethan Allen to Newport News, where they are to embark for Cuba The soldiers quickly got to work to rescue the injured, whose cries for help could be heard above the din.
 Daylight facilitated the work, and in a comparatively short time most of those pinned down by the wreckage were on their way to the Leonard hos pital which fortunately is located but one block from the scene of the wreck. The dead, as they were recovered, were placed in the shade of giant elm tree at the side of the road and were later taken to a neighboring undertaking es- tablishment.
 Many of the passengers on the ill., fated train had left the train when it came 70 temporary standstill and were pacing up and down the track, when the crash came. To this some of them probably owe their lives. One mans grief was pitiable, His name was J. W. Dacey and he ran up and down the track crying for his wife. In few minutes, when her lifeless form was identified by him, he collapsed completely and was taken to nearby house.
 There he told his listeners that he had been married last night at Arling ton, Mass The couple had planned an extended trip. Tonight he was msSs- ing arrangements to have the body of his bride shipped to Arlington.
 Peoria, H., Oct. Aired L. Block was member of the firm of Schipper & Block of this city and Pekin, the largest department store in Illinois out side of Chicago. Mir. Block was inter ested in a number of the banking in stitutions of the city. MT. and Mrs. Block left Peoria about three weeks