The sun., 1918-04-09
TRIPLE TRAIN
WRECK KILLS 3
Fifty Injured on n. Y. Central
as Two Expresses Hit
Derailed Cars.
EMPIRE STATE IS ONE
Engineer and Two Trainmen
Die-Two Passengers Lose
an Eye Each.
EMPIRE STATE IS ONE

AMSTERDAM. y. Y. April s.--Some
fifty persons aboard the Empire State
Express were injured. the engine driver
and two unidentified trainmen were
killed and trafic on the New York
Central Railroads main line was halted
for hours when the train. heading west
ward at hsty miles an hour In tho out
skirts Of the city this noon crashed into
. tumble Of freight cars which scarcely
q minute before had been derailed. John
r Bolts Of Albany. one Of the Central's
hest engineers. was hurled 800 feet from
the cab Of the Empires locomotive to his
death and his fireman. William Bar
ringer. lies dying tonight in st. MAry's
Hospital
The accident happened within two or
three blocks of the two hospitals Of Am
| sterdam. Fifty passengers from the ex-
press were hurried to these institutions.
while others slightly cut or bruised we're
attended in private houses or in the
cfflces Of nearby phys!clans.
broken Track Dsrails Ger.
A broken truck on freight car caused
an eastbound food special train to buckle
and dump two cars in the route OF the
exptesa. Before warning could DO gfe<a
! the eastbound New York and New Eng
land express train ls crashed into the
| mass Of wreokage, but none OF that
! train was injured.
! The wreck occurred shortly after ~
O'Clock. Veteran railroad men consider
! II a miraculous piece Of good fortune
| that no more parsons were killed. The
accident happened near . barge canal
bridge across the Mohawk River. Sol
d!ers. police and firemen guarded the
cars.
Several persons in the smoking car
Of the Empire State Express were hurled
through windows or jumped-they are
not sure which. The car was quickly
ablaxe on the interior from electric
wiring.
william d. Hunter Of Albany. an in.
! surancs agent for q New York com.
pany and A. L. Price Of Lavonia each
lost an eye through the breaking Of
glass.
Among the others injured are the fol
lowing:
Robert vossels. Troy c. A. Holeridse
| Albany: MrA. Robert II. Coughlan, Gin
ton avenue, Albany: William Chute
Spencer: William Randolph Nugent
Buffalo; Frank Flynn. Palmer Falls
Jacob Fitzer. Syracuse Oakley Esmay
Seward Thomas Fagerin. New York
John Cossean. Potsdam: Peter Pirnie
New York; Mro. John Keepler. Albany
C.. A. Butler, New Hope. Pa. Albert
Campbell. Rodney avenue. Buffalo
Hugo Dobesch. Allen street. Brooklyn
NJ. Creedon. Little Falls: Charles n
Chistler, Waterloo: Max Brenstein
Bronx. New York; Miss Eunice Powl'
man. Cayuga street. Syracuse Fred
erick w Behreredt, Detroit: Lieut.. Johr
P. Bushnell. Washington. d. C.. com
pound fracture upper arm: Ernest Bueb
hers, Brooklyn; Nat Ellis. Syracuse
Charles Toater. Lake Pleasant: Charles
Reed, West Klngsbridge road. New York
Mrs. Emma Gindry. Carthage: Eliza
beth @. Holmes. Saratoga Springs; Nor
man Parker, Erie. Pa. James Hearn
45I West Fifty-seventh street. New
York: Albert Kohler. %5& East l2ttt
street. New York; L. NJ. Kaufman. s0t
Hoe avenue, New York: Harry H. Ber
ger, 50 waverly street. Yonkers: Sam
uel Coroch. 137 West 10th street. New
York; Marian Totcomb. Frsdonia Mrs
Michael Mccarthy. Osstning; Mabe
Shefield. Sharon Helen Dillon. +04 Riv
erside Drive, New York: Robert Walker
Brockville. Ont: Richard 8. Hodge
| Albany; Mrs. Alfred Leclaire. Tuppel
Lake, and II. J. Myers. Greenwich.