O’Brien (died in hospital), Glenfield. In that same instant, other portions of the two trains were being wrecked and thrown from side to side to the sound of splintering wood, the rumble of freight cars striking into each other pilling up and falling over. Inside the cars passengers were thrown about and the injured were jammed against seats and against car windows. The cow catchers on the two engines that met were demolished and the boilers interlocked. The second engine on the passenger train remained on the roadbed, but left the tracks, which were torn up for a distance of several hundred feet. The day coach back of this engine did not leave the track, as did the remains of the combination car and baggage car, the latter of which lay beneath the combination, a total wreck. As for the freight train, four cars were tumbled about back of the engine which had drawn them. The second of the freight cars piled itself up on top of the first and both rolled over into the marshy land near the track on the side of the canal. Two more, immediately back of them, rolled over into the ditch on the other side. The wrecking crew from Utica, under Mr. Griffin, was summoned as soon as possible and the train was started shortly after 7 o’clock. The wrecking crew from Watertown was also put at work on the big task of clearing track, and help was also secured from Syracuse. A big party of laborers was kept busy laying a new track as soon as the twisted rails were taken out of the way. After a thorough investigation in the weeks following the accident, railroad officials declared that the wreck was caused by operator’s error in transmitting orders, the result being the worst disaster in the history of the R. W. & O. Railroad since the road was established.
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