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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.