. The street railway review . he high standard of the goodsis appreciated by the street railways. FATAL COLLISION AT ALBANY. On Sunday, May Jdth, two heavily loaded electric cars of theAlbany & Hudson third-rail system met in a head-on collisionat the apex of a curve, neither car being visible to the motormanof the other until the cars were upon each other. Both ca--.;were running at a high rate of speed in order to reach turnoutsand both were well filled with excursionists out for a holiday,lioth motrjrmen and three passengers were killed, and 15 passen-gers were reported seriously injur
. The street railway review . he high standard of the goodsis appreciated by the street railways. FATAL COLLISION AT ALBANY. On Sunday, May Jdth, two heavily loaded electric cars of theAlbany & Hudson third-rail system met in a head-on collisionat the apex of a curve, neither car being visible to the motormanof the other until the cars were upon each other. Both ca--.;were running at a high rate of speed in order to reach turnoutsand both were well filled with excursionists out for a holiday,lioth motrjrmen and three passengers were killed, and 15 passen-gers were reported seriously injured, while all of the 120or more passengers were hurt. Both of the cars woretotally wrecked. The south-bound car left . at 4 :.io oclock, and the acci-dent took place at 5 oclock. The motorman of the .soulh-houndcar reached one of the switches, where he should have waited, hutseeing no north-bound car, decided to take chances and go onto the ne.\t siding. It was at a curve between tlial the two cars. GERMAN ELECTRIC RAILWAY STATISTICS. eould be made were it necessary to cnt the leelli. 1 he UKlli.«lof manufacture is simple and will be readily understood from theaccompanying illustrations. The die used is so constructed as to Statistics published by the Electro-Technical Journal show thaton Sept. I. 1900, 99 German cities had electric railways; it is esti-mated that on Jan. i, 1901, 107 cities were so supplied. In 1891, thenmnber of such cities was 3; in 1895, 32; in 1899, 88, The last yearhas also witnessed a very large extension of existing systems. OnSept. I, ii/x), the length of track was 1, miles, against 1,280miles in 1899. The number of motor cars was 5,994 ( in 1899)and of trailers .1,962 (j, in 1899). The aggregate power of theeectrical plants was 75,608 kw., against 52,509 kw. in 1899. Thepower of the accumulators was 16,890 kw. (13,532 in 1899). Thesystem of overhead trolleys is used almost universally. The com-bined system of trol
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