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The Atlanta Georgian.
VOL. I. NO. 58.
Morning Edition.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY,. JULY. 3 1906
Morning Edition.
AMERICAN TOURISTS ARE SLAIN
WHEN FLYING ENGLISH TRAIN
QUITS THE RAILS AND IS WRECKED
Crowded Express Go
ing About 75
Miles an Hour.
IT CRASHES INTO
TEAM ON A SIDING
Twenty-Three Persons Meet Death
Others May Die—Inquiry Is
Started to Fix Blame.
By Prir.t. Icurd Wire.
London. July 1.—England U appalled
by the deadly railway dleaater at Salle-
bury. In which the percentage of dead
(twenty-three passengers outpt forty-
two having been killed, together with
four trainmen) Is greater than In any
remembered catastrophe In British
railroading. Nearly all of the victims
are Americans.
Officials of the Southwestern rail
way admit today that the death list
probably will Increase to thirty owing
to the terrible nature of the Injuries
of twelve persons now In the hospitals.
Papers Demand Inquiry.
The London papers today are of one
voice In demanding Investigation of
the charge that reckless engine driv
ing, due to speed competition, caused
the accident. Representatives of the
United States embassy have gone to
the scene of the wreck to inform them
selves ns to the facta and to protect
the Interests of Americans.
The Inquest tomorrow Is expected to
develop a tangible charge that the Ill-
fated American line express carrying
from Plymouth to London passengers
from the steamship New York, was
speeding at the rate of 70 miles an
hour.
Sympathy is Expressed.
The newspapers express deep sym
pathy with the relatives of the victims
and especially deplore the fact that
such a terrible calamity should have
overtaken visitors.
The London Times says: "The
Salisbury disaster Is of a kind to
awaken keen regret whatever the na
tionality of the sufferers, but that re
gret can only be Intenslfled when the
suffering IS confined almost wholly to
members of a race so near our own.”
"The accident,” asserts The Graphic,
"may kh.a'k the ronlldence of .the trav
eling public and the reflection thut
most of the victims helnng to a coun
try which we are accustomed to re
gard as the homo of great disasters Is
a wound to our national self com
placency."
Curve Is Dangerous.
Salisbury, the scene of the catastro
phe, Is 81 miles from the Waterloo sta
tion. and Is noted as. the site of the
Salisbury Cathedral, which was con
structed In 1SS0.
A short distance out of the town be
gins a remarkable curve, which some
times has been described as the most
dangerous in the world, and which cer
tainly possesses elements of danger.
Not only does the line cover and leave
the station on a curve, but It takes a
slight rise in order to afford suf
ficient headway to the dipping road
way below. It was near this point
that the engine Jumped the rails while
proceeding at a terrific speed.
Crashes Into Milk Train.
At the scene of the disaster there
are five lines of rails. Two are main
lines, two others are devoted to local
traffic nnd the fifth Is a siding. ■
these five lines only two were occupied
at the time of the accident. A milk
train laden with empty cany was leis
urely entering the station In the op
posite direction from the express, while
at the entrance of the siding was a
solitary locomotive to furnish any ser
vice the milk* train might require.
In the meantime the express which
was due to run through with an empty
line of rails on each side of her, came
pounding along, swaying heavily, ow
ing to the tremendous speed. The In
spector on the station platform watch
ing hard, followed her, course with his
aye. and was horrified to see the train
leave the rails, jump to the vacant line
on the right and plunge Into the milk
train.
Hurled From Carriage.
A crash like the roar of artillery
awakened Salisbury. Within twenty
seconds the whole train became a cha
"He mass of wreckage. The ponder
ous engine flrat .smashed the guards’
'on of the milk train and then hurled
Rivalry of Two Railroad Companies
Is Responsible For Disastrous Wreck
By Private Leased Wire. ' -
London, July 1.—Last week the Great Western took a party of
German editors to London from Plymouth In 4 1-2 hours and established
a new record for the distance of 242 miles. The Southwestern attempt
ed to beat this, with the resulting death roll.
'The distance from the start to the place of accident, 148 miles, occu
pied 147 minutes. The first part of the Journey from Plymouth to Exeter,
Is over heavy grades, where the speed was necessarily lower. There Is
a straight run of 12 miles before Salisbury Is reached and this was taken
at a flying pace.
There Is a long, but not sharp, curve at the station, and It was In the
middle of this the train Jumped the track. It la clear that the speed was
not reduced and the comparatively light English engine and cars could
not stand the strain.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA., MAN
WHO WAS IN THE WRECK
SAYS IT WAS PREDICTED
Dy Private Leased Wire.
London, July 3.—Walter %ellatl, of
Jacksonville, Fla, who was uninjured,
tells a remarkable story of how a
young woman on the train who had
been reading the hands of some of the
passengers predicted the catastrophe.
“I was not a believer In palmistry,”
said Mr. Bellatl, "but the palmist said
I would cAme through terrible acci
dents shortly without hurt. I have
got the first-one over. She told Mrs.
Cosslt, the btide whose husband was
killed, that she would shortly lose a
dear male friend In a railway accident.
I shall not be so skeptical of palmistry
In the future."
In describing the scene following ti)e
wreck, Mr. Bellatl said:
“My compartment was oscillating
perlously on the edge of the bridge and
It seemed as If It would be pitched
into the road at any moment. The
groans of the Injured were fearful.
With the others who had nor been In
Jured I did what little I could, but
number of willing helpers were soon i__
the scene. The wonder Is, considering
the spot where the accident happened,
that any one escaped. I remained at
Salisbury for seme time to comfort and
cheer some ladles who were In sore
distress.”
HERE IS LIST OF THE DEAD
AND INJURED IN BIG WRECK
By Private Leased Wire.
London, July 2.—The dead as known
are as follows:
First Cabin Passengers—
HARWICH, Walter, Toronto, Ont.
CASSIER, Louis, Trumbull, Conn.
COSSITT, Fred H., New York.
ELPHICKE. Mrs. C. W„ Chicago.
HARDING, Dudley P., No. 316 West
Ninety-fifth street, New York.
HITCHCOCK. Mrs. L. jL No. 261
■ntmt Perk. w-st. Nmv'1 * '
HOWEHON, Miss Mary T- No. 21
West Thirty-first street, New York.
KING. Rev. F. L., Toronto, Ont.
KOCH. Frank W, Allentown, Pa.
MCDONALD, John E., New York.
M'MEEKIN, C. F., Lexington, Ky.
PIPON, C. A, Toronto, Ont.
SENTELL, Mrs. E. W„ Brooklyn.
N. Y.
SENTELL, Miss Blanche M., Brook
lyn, N. Y.
SENTELL Miss Gertrude II., Brook
lyn. N. Y.
SMITH, Mrs. Walter W„ Dayton,
Ohio.
SMITH, Miss Eleanor, Dayton. Ohio.
SMITH, Gerard, Dayton, Ohio.
WAITE. Mrs. Lillian Hurd, 424 Fifth
avenue. New York.
Second Cabin Passengers—
GOEPPINGER, Louis, address un
obtainable.
KEELER, Jules, address unobtaln
able. *
THOMPSON, W. H.. address unob
tamable.
FOUR RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.
INJURED.
Crlchell, Robert S., Chicago.
Griswold, Miss I. S., address unob
talnable.
Hitchcock. Miss M.. New York city.
Koch. Mrs., Allentown. Pa.
Koch, Miss Anna E, Allentown, Pa
Rask, Miss M., address unobtainable.
Itself against the bridge parapets.
While the underparts of the rallwa;
carriages remained on the track, thougl
off the rails, the woodwork of th
carriages projected over the bridge,
•no the street below was strewn with
glass and splinters.
One passenger was even hurled right
through the side of a broken carriage
thirty feet to the embankment and
cither killed and mangled by the fall or
hfni m **" ° f * rr#ci< *** that fell upon
Women Especially Brave.
The locomotive and tender rebound
ing from the parapet now hurled their
tremendous weight against the station
ery locomotive, which became a shape-
less wreck. Its boiler exploding and so
J? v *t*ly scalding both the driver and
flr 'tn*n that the latter has since
,, V; T h * espress engine finally turned
tui tie, broken backed. In the midst of
torn-up rails. The wreck was horribly
complete.
*be station was like the
abode Of death. The work of the dla-
w *» only too well done. The In
jured were too heavily stricken to ut-
L*„ r * vora - and those who were not
w *™ too daxed to raise even a
murmur.
,.r« ha« struck me most.” said a poe-
«i official, who was among the reecu-
.i, • * WM the extraordinary bravery of
1x2 " om f! L There was. little scream-
to <0 the horror of the sltua-
f,' n „_J h * women endured terrible suf-
fertngs with dogged courage."
Injured Doing Well.
Most of the Injured are progressing
Continued on Page Three,
GOING 75 MILES AN HOUR.
TRAIN LEAPED THE RAILS
By Private Leased Wire.
London, July 2.—The speed of the
wrecked train at the time of the acci
dent Is said by some to have been sev
enty-five miles an hour.
' George E. Btrachan. of Boston, one
of the survivors of the wreck, tells a
graphic story of the scenes attending
It. Mr. Btrachan has arrived here
with his aunt, Mrs. J. II. Whltton.
"Just before the crash I remarked
to my aunt that we were traveling too
fast for safety," he said. "The speed
was terrific. We had rushed through
the darkness with bewildering speed.
The train rocked so violently that It
was with great difficulty we ate sup
per. We had all got well acquainted
on the ship, and we were nearly all In
the dining car together.
"There was much talk about the
speed of trains In America, nnd we
were willing to admit that we had few
trains to equal the one In which we
were traveling. The conductor pass
ed through, and I asked him If hi
thought It was safe for us to be ■
at such a clip. He laughed and
we were a minute or two behind the
schedule, and that along seevral
stretches of the track 70 miles an hour
was reached.
"When the crash came I was thrown
forward, but my head luckily landed
In the softest part of the cushion back
of the seat directly opposite. I was
rescued and revived by the firemen
who played water on the wreck. My
aunt and I were Imprisoned for about
two hours. I hardly think we could
have had a worse wreck In America,
on a similar run In the states all of us
would have been In Pullmans and :
believe few lives, If any, would have
been lost. The construction of the
coaches was too frail, as I saw when I
Inspected the wreckage.”
BRIDE ON HER HONE YMOON
TELLS OF HUSBAND' SDEA TH
By Private Leased Wire.
London. July 2.—Under the care of
a physician, at the home of J. E. Du-
ven. No. 376 Park lane. Mrs. Frederick
Henry Cosslt, the bride whose husband
was killed In the wreck while they
were on their honeymoon tour, told the
story of the accident. Mrs. Cosslt Is
a daughter of Justice Dugro, of New
York. .
"We were the only occupants of a
carriage,” she said, "and I was lying
on a seat with my -head on my hus
band's knee. Both of us were asleep.
Buddenly I found myself In another
part of the carriage, which was up “
down, and saw my husband was f
fully Injured.
"I Insisted on his being dragged out
of the window first, and then I was
pulled nut.”
Mr. Cosalt's skull was fractured. He
died soon after being taken lo the hos
pital.
Mrs. Cosslt proposes to return __
New York next Wednesday. Beyond
the severe shock to her system she was
not Injured,
THAW-WHITE CASE MENTIONED
BY TWO PASTORS IN SERMONS
By Private Leased Wire.
Columbus, Ohio, July 2.—"One les
son ought to come home to us, taught
by these fatal revels In the house of
mirth—the peril of lawlessness.” said
Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden, In his
sermon at the First Congregational
church yesterday, after referring to
the White murder and declaring the
character of Thaw to be the logical
product of "multi-milllonlsm."
.At one point when speaking of the
dangers of great accumulation of
wealth, he made what many hearers
took to be a thrust at Chancellor Day.
of the Syracuse University, declaring:
strange to me that political
who know something about history
should ignore this fact.
REFER8 TO THAWf CA8E
IN FAREWELL SERMON
By Private 1 .eased wire.
Louisville, Ky., July 2.—Rev. U. A.
MacMillan, for a number of years pas
tor of the Oak Street Presbyterian
church. In preaching his farewell ser
mon took occasion to refer to the
Thaw-White tragedy. He said:
"We need a revival of pure home
fife. The shocking tragedy In high
social life within the last few days
should be the occasion of sounding a
note of social reform that would sweep
over this land now blighting with such
philosophers and college presidents social leprosy.’
NEW
By Privr
Wn^ii
office of tl
"HfOfl i
cnnflrmatlr
CANAL COMMISSION
NAMED BY THE PRESIDENT
Leased Wire.
igton, July 3.—The following statement was given out at the
* Isthmian canal commission today:
se of the failure of the senate to take action looking to the
if the Isthmian canal commission, the president Immediate
ly following the adjournment of congreee appointed a new canal commit-
ston, with the following member-
"Theodore p. Shunts, chairman; John 8. Stevens, Charles Magoon,
refer c. Haines. U. 8. A. retired; M. T. Endlcott, U. B. N„ and Benjamin
M. Hnrrod, t\ E, U. S. A.
“Mr. ftterena becomes a member of the commission vice Brigadier
General Oswald H. Ernest, C. E., who retired from active service recently,
and who will hereafter devote his entire tlmo to the International water
ways commission. Mr. Steven* has, In addition to hi* dulls* on the com-
mleslor. those of chief eng'neer. Ths salaries of the members will re
main n, heretofore. Mr. Stevens, however, will continue to draw his sal
ary as chief engineer, without extra compensation, as a member of the
canal * ommlsslon.”
NEGRO SHOOTS DEAD
COMMISSARY CLERK
4
dispute;* over small time
CHECK, AND TRAGEDY
FOLLOWED. j,
Sprrlnl tn’Xti.* (Jporfflun.
ItlrinifitrMni. Ain., July 2.—IimlstlnK tbat
he hml * Fred Otrena, clerk In n com*
mlafmry nt a railroad camp near
Short Creek, n tluie check for 66 centa and
the clerk claiming It wae for 10 rente, n
njrro. wLt»st> name baa not been obtnt/ I.
hipped n revolver and murdered
wen* in Sfld blood.
Officers ajv scouring the country In the
tIi lutty of'the trngedy nnd feeling runa
hU'h *
Prior to accepting n pine# at the camp.
Owens lived in lllrtnlnghnui. lie came
‘ere nbout two yenrs ago from Columblu.
enn. i
The fnttfrr of the dead man. C. II.
wens. wM I* connected with a hotel trans
fer compnnv nt Columbia, will reach Illrm*
—ion and the I tody will
for Interment
lnghntn this
RAILROADER IS HELD
ACCUSED OF THEFT
ASSISTANT YARDMASTER SCHELL
OF SOUTHERN. LOCKED
BEHIND BAR8.
Suspect'd of having stolen some
fancy wpiaky, uf the kind used In Full-
1 >4^ U WMH. of No. 107
Lambe V'strset. assistant night ynrtl
master In Ihe north yards of the Houth-
em railway, was arrested Monday
morning at 3 o'clock by Special Officer
Dwyer, of the Southern, and locked la
the police station.
The whisky, consisting of several
bottles, was stolen from a car In the
north yarda some time during the early
irt of Bunday night.
The officers believe that others be
sides Schell are Implicated In the
theft, but so far no further arerate have
been made. 8rhelt protest, that he
le Innocent of the theft.
DEPARTMENT FOR
TWENTY-ONE TEARS
CHIEF JOYNER CELEBRATES MA
JORITY AS ATLANTA '
FIREMAN. I
E-ELECT SHOOTS
SELF AFTER QUARREL
PI8TOL FIRED IN HEARING DIS
TANCE OF THE FUTURE
HUSBAND.
Bpcclal to The Georgian.
Birmingham, Ala., July t—fn the boating
hd married on July 16. Mlea Fb>rcnce
Awantee, the pretty 15*year-old dnughtre of
W. J. Bwantee. a paperhanger of thla city,
ihot herself with a E-callber* pearl han
dled revolver, the liall entering the breaat
Just above the Innga.
Physicians any there la • chance for her
recovery,
E
TO DEVELOP INTO
HARD LEGAL BATTLE
Both Sides Are Prepar
ing to Fight to
Last Ditch. i
PDTDir . * n Atlanta TWO CUNTS.
X -IVJ.Vv.Lj. on Tmlns FIVE CENTS.
SUICIDE WAVE
Four Women Try Self-
Destruction in
One Day.
SCRAPPY WOMAN USED
BED SLAT ON
BLOODY FIGHT QIBTURBED HO
TEL GUESTS—BELLIGERENTS
ARE FINED *S0.76 IN COURT.
Twenty-one year, ago on the flrat
Monday In July, or the week day,cor-
respondlng to this, W. R. Joyner flrat
took Ihe oath of office In the Atlanta
regular lira department as chief, and
Monday called up a few Interesting
facte about the department In those
days as compared to It at this time.
In 1222, when Ihe city of Atlanta was
less than half Ihe else It now-ls, there
were only four houses, containing the
Are apparatus, hook and ladder com
pany No. 1. on broad elreet; engine
npgny No. 1, also on Broad elreet;
i. 2. on Waverly place and Washing
ton street, which wae abandoned
Thursday, and the company Installed In
news quarters, and No. 2, on Marietta
and Latimer streets. These houeee
were manned by thirty-nine men.
Today there are ten houses, two of
which, headquarters on Alabama elreet
end No. 4 on Pryor street, are double
houeee. There are seven engine com
panies, Nos. 2, 4, 6, 6, 7, » and 10;
two chsmlcat companies, Noe. t and 3;
two hose companies Noe. 3 and I, and
three hook and ladder companies. Nos.
I, 2 end I—fourteen companies In ell,
which makes the largest fire depart
ment south of the Mason and Dixon
line, with the single exception of that
In New Orleans, end, as Captain Joy—
and all other Atlantans think, with
exception the beet department in the
Bouth.
Previous to the days of a paid de
partment Captain Joyner wee twelve
years In the volunteer department,
foreman of hook and ladder company
No. 1 for eight years and chief during
two years, 1177 and 1372.
During Chief Joyner’s administration
there have been 7,242 Area, practically
all of which he hes attended.
ACE AGAINST DEATH
BY CONVICT SON
Special to The Georgies.
Wilmington. N. C., Jsly t-A race
against death eras mode this morning from
the county convict camp to Ik* homo of
Thomos Tefor. of this efry.’ Totsfo son
As tho result of a bloody light early
Bunday morning In the Central hotel
In West Mitchell street, near the Term
inal station, Vivian Grubb, a young
white woman, and E. Small, a lumber
dealor of Tennessee, were arraigned
Monday morning before Ilecordor
liroyles nnd eneli lined 264.72. The
lines were pnld.
Stnnll appears to have gotten consid
erably the worst of the scrap, his face
being badly bruised. According ‘ to
statements, ths young woman pum-
meled him over Ihe head and face with
a bed lint, which she found In a hall
way. The woman la said to have also
Indulged In a lot of loud talk and pro
fanity, aroualng the other Inmates of
the hotel, the hour of the scrap being
about 3 o'clock In Ihe morning.
The woman Informed Record'
Broyles she came here recently from
Johnson City. Tenn., at which place
she met Small.
HANDY WITH PISTOL,
WOMANOTOTS TWO
ODE88A BANKS, ARRESTED HERE,
ACCU8ED OF 8H00TINQ
TWO MEN.
Odessa Banks, a young white wo
men formerly or Atlanta, but more
lately of Birmingham, was arrested on
Sunday In the Cannon hotel by Detec
tive Sergeant Lanford on Information
that she Is wanted In Birmingham In
two cases of assault with Intent to
murder.
The young women le accused of
shooting two men on different occa
sions In tha Alabama city. Tha names
of these men ere not known here. The
prisoner was taken to Birmingham on
Sunday night to stand trial. She was
known here under the name of Lex
Lanier.
By Private Leased Wire.*
New York, July 2.—It became known
today that a secret battle, backed by
millions on each aids, has begun as a
result of the effort to send Harry Ken
dell Thaw to the electric chair for the
killing of Stanford White, the famous
architect. y
White's relatives end hie several In
fluential friends have been In consul
tation with the most noted and hlxh-
est-prlred attorneys In the profession,
who have been retained to push the
case against Thaw.
Hide Their Identity.
These lawyers have In most cases
succeeded even. In hiding their Identi
ties thus far, and will eay nothing In
regard to the case, but It became
known that they have already exam
ined a number pf persons who will In
all probability become the most Im
portant witnesses for Ihe prosecution
when the trial begins.
On the other hand, the lawyers re
tained to defend Thaw, alio among the
most prominent In the country, have
not only succeeded In getting the com
plete life history of Evelyn Neebll
Thaw to present to ths Jury that will
sit In Judgment upon the prisoner, but
they have found a aoore or more of
other Important witnesses, many of
them former girl friends of White.
State Prepares Cess.
While this secret war between oppos
ing . counsel wee going on today the
district attorney's office began an earn
est preparation of the state's cose
against Thaw which the prosecutors
expect to make sufficiently strong to
secure conviction.
"No matter how loud the outcry may
be from certain quarters,” said Assist
ant District Attorney Oarvln today,
”we are confronted with one all Im
portant necessity In this cast, and that
is to spare no poislbla effort to tee
that Justice Is done and the majesty of
the law upheld.”
To Be Startling Trill.
It was virtually decided today, after
rnniultatlon between Attorney Jerome
and Assistant District Attorneys Nott
nnd Garvin, to place Tlinw on trial In
tho criminal branch of the supremo
court early In October.
From the number and character of
the witnesses already examined or or
dered to appear before tho district at
torney, end also because of the decis
ion of Ihe defense's attorneys to place
ONLY ONE ATTEMPT
PROVED SUCCESSFUL
Grady Hospital Physicians Work
ed on Three Cases of Poison
ing at Same Time. ,
Along with the terrlflc heat of Sat
urday and Sunday, a suicide wave hit
Atlanta Four attempts at g*lf-de-
structlnn were made, all by women,
three of whom were white. The n«-
greae died.
They were:
CORINNH EARNEST, 24 King at root.
MRS. T. G. THORNTON, 138 West
Mitchell street.
JESSIE DORSET. 116 1-1 Decatur
Street.
ELLEN TOLBERT, negro, Decatur
and Uourtland streets.
The Grady hospital physicians were
Sunday working on three of tho caaoe
at tha earns time.
Case of Mrs. Thornton.
Taken to tho Orady hospital Sunday
unconscious, Mrs. L. L. Thornton, wife
of T. O. Thornton, of 186 West Mitchell
street, Monday morning declared that
her condition was due to an overdose
of morphine administered hypodermic
ally Sunday morning by a physician In
an effort to relieve pain.
The name of thl* physlrlnn both
Mrs. Thornton and her husband de
cline to divulge.
Mrs. Thornton has been III during
ths pest few days and Sunday morning
le said to have been suffering Intomm
pain. Throo physicians were with her
during tho morning and one of these is
aald to hove given her a hypodermlo
Injection of morphine In tho arm.
The poison afforded tho desired re
lief, but as tho suffering left her Mrs.
Thornton lapsed Into a comatose state
Efforts to revlvo her proved futile and
realizing that her condition won serlona
the husband untitled the hospital and
hod her taken there.
Afte
oh work
the pr
of th*
oner, on the stand, the Thaw trial
day promised to become the most sen
sationally startling nnd rsmarkable
New York has aver witnessed.
Witness#! Are Summoned.
Among the other principal witnesses
called by the district attorney's of-
fles today were James hawnneo
Brsess, member of the Brook Club, of
which Whits was also a member, and
a close friend of Whits.
W. Gould Rrokaw and Truxton Reals,
of Ban Francisco, are also expected to
furnish testimony which will tend »<•
prove that -Thaw had threatened
White’s Ilfs before the night of ths
shooting.
Dr. Ward’s Anniversary.
The fourteenth anniversary of the
pastorate of the Rev. A. C. Ward wae
celebrated at th# Temple Baptist
church Sunday by services of an ap
propriate nature. Th# pastor was as
sisted by the "blacksmith preacher”
and a series of meetings Is being car
ried on. In hie sermon Sunday Mr.
Ward touched upon the recent Torrey
discussion, saying that It had brought
d friends of the evangelist
physicians, aho was revived and Mo
lay wns reported out of danger.
When seen Monday morning Mrs.
Thornton said:
T have been til of late and yesterday
morning was suffering considerable.
My husband during ths morning had
three phyelrlans with me. One of the
doctors Injected morphine Into my arm
to relievo the pain and this Is what put
ms In ths hospital. I could feel myself
growing eneler nnd then I remembered
nothing moro until I awoke here In
tho hospital.”
Jessie Dorsey.
Jessie Dorsey, a young white woman,
was found unconscious Sunday after
noon In her room at tit 1-2 Decatur
street, as the result of an overdose of
morphine.
She was taken to the Grady hoepltol
In an ambulance, where her Ufa was
saved.
Whether the poison was taken with
sulrtdnl Intent Is not known. It la
nmler-t 1 tlo- \ "ling \(. .limn line been
ml'lb i*.I t<» the drug habit and It la
generally believed sho accidentally
swallowed an overdose. She was still
pnrtlnl stupor Monday and was
unable to tnlk Intelligently of her con
dition.
Elian Tolbert.
As the result of an overdose or mor
phine, Elian Tolbert, a negro woman
of Decatur and Courtland streets, died
Sunday night at the Grady hospital.
IRATE DAO
PAYS HIS_ RESPECTS
MET COUPLE AT THE TRAIN AND
GAVE IMPRE89IVE
WELOME.
Kptrfal lo Th* UeorjffMi.
Jackson, Mlaa.. July 2.—Robert llutb*r
ford, 17 yi*ara old, and lllaa Ruby Millar, a
atrtklnffty handaom* young aalralady, rni
ployed by a local department a tore, eloped
to Brandon Monday afternoon nhd were
married.
their home-coming. Iher were met hi
— jMiy'a father, at the union depot, and
the Imy waa given a aound whipping t»«
parent, lie waa then forced to #|Ull
bride. It la aald, and return hum*,
re be la now kept under lock and
, The bride and groom both declare they
will etude parental vigilance, and atand
8IX MEET DEATH
IN ANIMAS RIVER.
iltlng
Word waa aent to
that hla father
leufa lief ore hla arrival.
death le deplored.
Durango, Colo, July i.—Leonard
Boat, hla wife and alx children wera
drowned this morning at • o'clock
while crossing the Animas rlvar at
Graves toll bridge, near Coder Hill, N.
II. Bast and hla entire family wars on
thslr way to Durango to participate In
ths street carnival there. Despite
warnings. Boat attemptsd to cross ths
river st the ford,Instead of on tha toll
bridge and as a result tbs entire fam
ily waa wlpad ouL
PRETTY GIRL ATTEMPTS SUICIDE ,
BECAUSE SWEETHEART FAILED
TO WRITE AFTER QUARREL
Despondent and hiorose because her
sweetheart fled from her two weeks
ago In a lit of angtr, following a lovsrs*
quarrel, antVbacausa aha had not seen
nor heard from him slnca, Mlea Cortnne
Earnest, a pretty girl of If year*,
whose horns Is at 24 King street lets
Sunday afternoon swallowed an over
dose of landanum In an effort to end
her Ilfs.
So determined was she lo die that
Ihe glrL as soon as the Grady hoapltal
was notlflqd, slipped out of her horns
end ran through tha near-by streets
for several blocks In an attampt lo
sscapa tha doctors. She waa chased
and Anally caught by her hrother-ln
law, Joasph Ray, who took her back to
the house. Ths girl screamed when
caught and baggtd her brother-in-law
to 1st her alone slid allow ths poison to
do Its work.
few minutes later an ambulanca
arrived and ths death-seeking girl was
hurried to tha hospItaL After working
with her for some lima tha physicians
brought her out of danger and she was
abla to return to her home Monday.
John Franklin the' Mtn.
Tha young man about whom tha gtrl
triad to kill herself Is John Franklin,
of Oreenvllle, S. C„ who worked In At
lanta until tha quarrel with his sweet
heart. On qHireling with tha girt.
Franklin la aald to have returned to
Greenville, sines which time he has
sent her no word whatever.
Madly In love with young Franklin,
tha girl brooded over the quarrel and
lbs absence of bar lover until she I bungllng job llk
could stand It no longer and dstsr-' Miss Barne»t
mined to end her troubles In death. Fro-1 sides with her
curing a bottle of laudanum, Mlea I Linn, 24 King s>
Earnest swallowed the contents os sh*
sat upon tha front porch at her tmms
lataiHunday afternoon. A younger sin
ter noticed her drinking frees Iks irtuial
and ran lo Inform 61 re. liny, another
sister. Tha latter asked Mias Ourtaaa
what she had done and the bitter
promptly Informed her. Mrs. Ray then
ran to the telephone and summoned an
ambulance. Hearing her sister railing
for assistance. Miss Corlnns ru-hed
from tha house and ran through the
streets until caught by Itay.
When seen Monday morning. Mtsa
Earnest at flrat declined to die. uss the
attempt on her life, but Anally declined
It waa prompted by love for young
Franklin.
Nothing Left in Life.
"I have loved him dearly for two
years,” said the girl, "and I have sim
ply worried myself Into despondency
over his sbseqce. We had a little quar
rel two weeks ago and ha left me in
anger, returning to his home In Green
ville. He hoe not written to me at.r
sent ms any word and this was more
than I could stand. It Just aasmsd is
though thtrs was nothing left In life
for me and I wanted to die. with it
his love everything looked dark an I
gloomy and I simply preferred death to
this continued worry and mental tor
ture."
When naked If the attll loved Frank-
faint smile:
but It In iin*
tin, she replied, with a fal
"Oh, yes, I love him: t
material to ma now whe
writes or whether I
In any way,”
Before she left
Earnest promised h
she would never ma
commit suicide. I-i
"If I ever dc
success of It.