Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-05
Rear-End Collision on Boston 4
Maine Railroad Near
Troy, N. Y.
SOLDIERS AID IN RESCUE
Special Bearing cavaIrymen to New
port News Crashes Into the Rear OF
Regular Passenger Train = Peoria,
ILL.,, Business Man One of the Victims
"A Honeymoon Tragedy.

Lansingburg, n. Y, Oct. 5.-Five
passengers were killed outright and a
score were Injured in a rear-end coilis-
ion between a regular passenger tram
and military special on the Boston d
Maine railroad, directly in front of the
Lansingburg depot, north OF Troy,
about o'clock last evening. The dead:
L. l.. Block, Peoria, ILL.,; Mrs. J. w.
Dacey, Arlington, Mass; Mrs. ii. $.
Poole, Concord, n. H.; Mrs. Wallace
Il. Shaw, Bath, Me-; Mrs. Stevens, Bos-
ton.
Injured:
Frank Belcher, Medford, Mass, both
legs fractured; Mrs. r. l.. Block, Peo-
ria, H., believed spine fractured; Miss
Manson, Bath, Me, back badly spraln-
ed; Miss Manson. Bath, Me-, leg
crushed: Miss Virginia Manson, Bath,
Me-. three ribs broken; w. K. Sey-
mour, Kenton, o. scalp wounds; Geo.
D, Stevens, Winchester, Mass. COM
fracture VI dllhiC anu an w .
Van Fassett and wife, Boston, burned.
The collision took place on a heavy
grade and sharp curve. The passenger
train was one that leaves Boston daily
at $50 "A. IN. for Albany. 1t consisted
of five cars, baggage car, smoker.
day coach. and two parlor cars, and
was about one hour late when it
reached Lansingburg station. waiting
there for a chance to get into the Troy
depot.
Without any warning the special
came laundering along with eighteen
cars, and crashed into the passenger
train, smashing the last two cars.
which were Pullmans, like eggshells.
Cars Roll Down Embankment.
Both these cars were swept from the
track and rolled down the embankmer,t.
The engine OF the special kept on for
a dozen yards and then turned turtle,
the front end blowing into the ground
and the car behind being telescoped by
the tender.
The special was drawing four troops
of the Fourteenth United States cav
airy from Fort Ethan Allen to New
port News, where they are to embark
for Cuba The soldiers quickly got to
work to rescue the injured. In COM
paratively short time most of those
pinned down by the wreckage We're on
their way to the Leonard hospital, near
the scene of the wreck.
Many of the passengers on the regu-
lar had left the train when it came to
a standstill and We're pacing up, and
down, the track when the crash came.
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 her lifeless form was
identified. They had been married last
night at Arlington, Mass, and We're
on their honeymoon, having PLANNED
an extended trip.
Peoria Business Man Victim.
Peoria, ILL.,, Oct. 5.-FTred l.. Block,
who met his death in the Lansingburg,
N. Y, wreck, was member of the
firm Sf Schipper & Block, of this city
and Pekin; the largest department store
in Illinois outside of Chicago. Mr..
Block was also interested in a num-
Der Of the banking institutions of the
city. Together with his wife, MIR, Block
left Peoria about three weeks ago for
a trip thru the east for his health. He
was about so years of age and is sur
vived by his widow, two sons, Carl and
Hayl, and one daughter, Miss Anna
BLOCK Mr. Block was a leading mem.