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an investigation Of the mysterious af-
fair; but as their labors are not conclu-
ded. we are unable to give their decision.
We are informed that the appearance Of
the bodies indicates that death was pro-
duced by poison, but whether admins
tered by themselves or others is not
known. These are all the facts we are
able to obtain at this time. Tomorrow
no doubt we shall have full particulars.
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pW- An examination of the antece-
dents of the clerks in the various Wash
ington Departments under the GREEN
CLAY SMITH resolution, show that several
have been in the rebel army. One of
these is a near relative of Senator era
GIN, of New Hampshire,
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BY- A fashionable article says; The
newest fashionable freaks are more in
the line of trimmings and general finish
ing off than of positive shape or color.
To be dressed in the style of the year
past and be ont of fashion, is quite I'M
possible" This will be great news for
ladies with short purses
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masses of Southern people till after 1870,
we believe is condemned BY the judicious,
as injurious and productive OF strife and
hostility, while the second section IS
immensely just as necessary and expe-
dent and all that is required on the sub
,nat
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gy- The New Bedford Mercury is re-
sponsible for the following " Why is it
impossible for Head Centre STEPHENS TO
gain the ear Of the Queen? Obviously,
because he doesn't dare to come within
Erin
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took $500 bales Of cotton on Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Manchester markets dull. Business
almost wholly suspended. Prices quite
nominal. Flour rather more active at
late rates Corn in good request at 28s
Cd to 29s Sd. Beef dull with a downward
tendency.
From New Orleans.
New ORLEANS, May l3.-Thsre were
two simultaneous fires here at IL o'clock
last night. One was at the corner OF
New Levee and South Market streets,
destroying three story brick dwelling
occupied jointly by blacks and whites oil
low character A coal oil lamp is said
to have exploded on the first floor, burn
ing the staircase and preventing the
escape of those in the third story-all OF
whom were burned to death Six per-
sons are known TO have been burned
four negro women one white woman
and negro boy More are supposed 10
have been lost.
The other fire was on Royal street,
destroying the upper story of Morman's
photograph gallery and the correspond
ing story in the adjoining building, but
taking no downward course. Loss quite
small
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A REV. TYRANT.

A long story has been told of the cruel
ties practiced by one Rev. EDWARD FITz,
of Massachusetts,, who has been running
the Freedmens Bureau in North Caro-
lima. He is charged, an exchange paper
informs US, with tying up colored boys
by the thumbs and hanging them up for
six hours at a time. While colored
man, charged with theft, was under ex-
animation, FITz allowed him to be beaten
with a brick-bat. A colored man was
kept in prison three months for debt,
while his family died with the smallpox
An old man seventy years old, was
charged with warning some Of the vic
tins of this FITz, that he was about to
arrest them He was imprisoned, and
though decrepid and poor, he had to pay
all the money he could raise TO regain
his freedom, which amounted SCI 80. He
was told if he would catch victim, the
money should be refunded. His reply
was: GOOD Lord, ! can hardly help my
self; how can catch him, and he young
man? Most of these charges were
proved before a commission from the
Rureau
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Ry- A girl fourteen years of age, from
Buena Vista, Ohio, named LUcRETIA
CoRy, has been arrested at Huntsville in
male attire, and lodged in jail. She was
for a while attached to the Goth Illinois
regiment.
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BT Judge Hook, of the Georgia Sn
preme Court, has decided that greenbacks
are not legal tender for debts contracted
prior to the date of the passage of the
legal tender act, which was February %,
1870
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TIE AMENDMENT

The NY Post speaks editorially Of the
action Of the House on the reconstruction
report, thai She first and fourth sections
are superfuous and unnecessary. The
third section. which DISTINGUISHES the
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Bey" At the anti-slavery university
meeting in New York, WENDELL PHIL
LIPS asserted that if the Republican
party remained intact until 1868, but one
man would be elected President, and
that man was Lieutenant General GRANT.
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PHYSICIANS. PLEASE NOTICE

We make no secret Of the ingredients. Helm
holds Fluid Extract Buchu is composed Of
Bachu. Cubebs. and Juniper Berries, selected
with great care, and prepared in vacuo by n !
I. Helmbold. Druggist and Chemist Of sixteen
years experience in the city Of Philadelphia.
and which Is now prescribed by the most emf
neut physicians. has been admitted to use In the
United States army. and is al.o in very general
use IN State Hospitals and public sanitary IN
stitutions throughout the land.
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STEAM BOATS.
For Helena, Vicksburg and the
Bends.

VHE SPLENDID STEAMER r<Eh
Il WELCOME, Capt. T. b. Ohn-Azz-z<4-s==E
son, leaves rs above
THIS DAY, the lta inst, at pm
Tor freight or passage. apply on board. or to
JOHNSON A WRIGHT, Agents,
mll-lt Upper Wharf-bost. foot Of Jeflerson.
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FOR S AL E.
A splendid Residence on Court street.
A beautiful Lot on Poplar street.
A double Tenement on Poplar street.


A beautiful Lot on Poplar street.
double Tenement on Poplar street.
A Residence with eight rooms on Alabama
street.
A Ten acre Lot on Pigeon Roost road. oppo
site " Old Hotel" Is acres adjoining the "0ld
Hotel"
Business House on Washington. south side
east of Fourth street.
Business House on Jefferson. between Main
and Second streets:
Two four-s;ory Business Houses on Court
street. opposite Square.
Together with much other business. city and
suburban property. to which we request the
attention Of all who wish to make paying in
vestment.
We are having sub-divided. and will sell ina
few days.
TWO HUNDRED ACRES
situated in the suburbs. in one of the healthest
and most improving locations, and convenient
for the business man and others.
This property will be sold on a
CREDIT EXTENDING THROUGH FIVE
YEARS.
Plats will be ready in a few days.
myll-IOt MONsARRAT. LANIER a co.
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20 The entrance fee for contestants will be SO
each. the names Of whom will be enrolled by the
Treasurer previous 10 the day Of the Iourna-
Each KNIGHT will furnish his own horse and
costume the costume TO be Of the Knights Sc
lection Arrangements have been made with
MT. Jnmison, Of the New Memphis Theatre, to
furnish costumes 70 all contestants who may
desire them; applications for which must be
made 10 the Treasurer. Mr.. Williamson.
A SPLENDID BAND OF Music WILL
BE IN ATTENDANCE.
TheprOoeeds the Tournameni, afierdsffAyg
ing the actual expenscs, viii be donated 20 the
purpose Of erecting
A MONUMENT TO THE CONFEDERATE
ai ElmwoOd Cemetery. myic-;d
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USE HELMBOLD's
FLUID EXTRACT Gnu

In an cases of the Urinary Organs, whether ex-.
isting in male or female. from whatever cause
originating, and no matter OF how long stand
ing. lis pleasant in taste and odor. immediate
In lis action, and more Strengthening than any
Of the preparations Of Bark or Iron.
Those suffering from Broken-down or Deli.
cate Constitutions, procure the remedy at once.
The reader must be aware that however slight
may be the attack Of the above disease IL Is sure
to Affect his bodily health. mental powers, hap
piness, and that Of bis posterity. Our flesh and
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HELMBOLD'S
FLUID EXTRACT BUcH U
IMPRoyED ROSIE WASH

will radically exterminate from the system
Diseases of the Urinary Organs arising from
habits Of dissipation. at little expense, little or
no change in diet. and no exposure, completely
supersedine those unpleasant and dangerous
remedies, Copaiba and Mercury, in curing those
unpleasant and dangerous diseases.
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COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS.

Col. NJ. Mageveney. jr., Col: Rogan,
Major J. P.Wils0n. W. W Nc harlan, ~
W. W. Walker, ESQ.,, Capt. W; w; Carnes'
T. j. Nally, Esq, d. Treadwell, ESQ,
Col. Leon Trousdale, Col. j. Ii. Mcmahon
DIR. John Erskine, Col. Maxwell,
Col. Ballentine, Major Henry Hampt
Mai or ". f. Moore. o.. E Bayliss. ESQ,
o. Fountaine. ESQ.,, John Qverton, Jr., r.
Gen. Ed. Rucker, Capt. b b. Blue.
Major b. +. Foster Major Joseph Barbi,
Henry Farmer. Esq.,. DR.. James Keller,
Col. X. C.Wintersmith, Major Rambaut.
Capt. VIM. Forrest, Capt Dan. Able,
| Col. Sam Tate, Capt. John D. Lev
| Col @. w. Edmonds, Col. j; L. Pryor.
Can't. Harvey Mathes, Gen. Jas. A. Smith.
DR.. r obert Mitchell, Col Richard Person
| P. NJ. Winters, Esl. Dr. X. ". Crelghton
Dr.. Emmett woodward,Dr. Cayanaugh,
DR.. Frank Rice, Capt; WIZ: y. W GODS
| Jas C. Jones, jr., Esq, Col. John NJ lntner,
Mat. Mcclure, Esq, Col. j. t. Trezevant,
| Col. Robert Crockett, Col. 4. j. DuPree'
j. A. Signaigo. Esq.. tol. u; Cockfei'
| A. i. Wheeler, Esq, J. J. Worsham, Esq.
Robert McGhee, Esq. John 5: Toof, Esq.
Cant. Schuyler, DIR. W. G. Bryan.
lanes II. Lanford. ESQ, III apt. John Mhoon.
| Jesse Page. jr., ESQ, Capt. Il. i. Hutchins
Capt ]. W. Cochran. Gen. A. j.; vaughn,
SoIand Fontaine, William Worsham.
VIM. Bowles, Esq. Napoleon Hill, Esq.
w. B Gabreath, Esq. Z. ureenlaw, ESQ.
Capt VIM. Smith. a vaeearo, ESD,
E. o. Eaton, ESQ, Maj. Chas; Partee,
| Mai. q. W. Winchester, Capt. j, Coleman.
Col. w. I. Avery. Col. Robt, Looney,
| DIR. W. d. Tucker, James G. Ward, ESQ
Capt +. A. Cole. Col. Will Taylor
| Gen. NJ, J. Wright, DR.. r. l.. Butt,
DR.. Geo G. Gray, Sam Jones, Esd,
Capt Tobin, Felix Robinson, Esq
| Can't. John Mitchell, Capt Ike Ayres,
| II Col II. l.. Dyer, Col. John Cameron,
| Gan w s Featherston, Holly Springs.
Major Kinloch Falconer.
Major Mat. S. Ward, Panola, Miss. :,
Hon. Felix Labauve, DeSoto county, N
Cen A. J. Hays, Jackson. Tenn.
Major #. II. Hartmus, Jackson, Tenn.
Major John Ingram,
Major w. w. Yates.
Colonel White, fernando. Miss.
Colonel Joe Mosby. Summeryille, Tenn.
Major O. c. Williams,
General j L. I. Sneed,
CAPTAIN Thomas Yancey. Lagrange.
Captnin r. L. Lanier,
Mercer Wright, Esq.
Capt. Arthur Keller, Tusrdmbia, Ala
Col. r. ID. Lindsay, Florence, Ala.
Mai. w. F. Masten, Huntsville, Ala.
Capt. T. 4. Erskine, a.
Mai. w. c. Sherrod, CORTLAND, Ala.
DR.. Haywood Jones, Athens, Ala.
General Tappan, Helena, Ark.
Gen. Arch. Dobbins. Old Town Ridge.
Col. E. NJ. Yerger. jackson, Miss.
Col, j. A. Hamilton,
Col. W. s. Barry, Columbus. Miss.
Mai. Dave Armstrong, Columbus, Miss
Col. NJ. I. Polk. Bolivar. Tenn.
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MEDICAL.
HELMBOLD'S
FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU

For Nom Retention or Incontinence of Urine.
Irritation, Inflammation or liberation OF
the Bladder or Kidneys, Diseases Of the
Prostate Gland, Stone in the Bladder
ii Calculus, Gravel or Brick Dust
Deposit, and all Diseases OF
the Bladder, Kidneys,
and Dropsical .n
Swellings.
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Seven omnibuses have been engaged for the
OCCASION. and will start from Court Sqrarc.
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ORATOR OF THE DAY:
MAI. GEN. JAMES R. CHALMERS.
TREASURER:
d. A. WILLIAMS. ESQ.
TREASURER:
d. A. WILLIAMS. ESQ.

to whom, at williamson, Hill a. Co.'S, S26 Front
street. all contestants Will apply 70 have tnen
names entered.
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TO THE KNIGHTS.

Fare tn the Tournament asd return-..----.sl
Entrance
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A RRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE
IN with the proprietors of the. Trotting Park
Course to afford every convenience to visitors
and participants that the occasion demands.
The Amphitheatre will be fitted up in comfort
able style. =,
The Committee Of Arrangements will see that
ing shall occur TO mar the pleasure of the day.
The following officers, MS COMMITTEES, have
been appoin ted
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WILL DEVOTE THEIR. ENTIRE AT;
w tention 10 the buying and selling OF Real
Estate, Leasing Of Lands and City Lots, Collec-
ton OF Rents and Civil Claims, and TO Paying
Taxes on Property in the city Of Memphis and
vicinity. .,,
In this city for the past twenty-five years.
during the most Of which time he has beea par
tally engaged in the Real Estate business,
hopes that the patronage heretofore extended
10 him will be continued to the new firm, who
pledge themselves TO give full satisfaction.
feb27 BIN
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HELMBOLD'S
FLUID EXTRACT BUCH U
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FLUID EXTRACT BUcH q.

In affections peculiar to females, Is unequalled
by any other preparation, as IN Chlorosis or
Retention, Irregularities. painfulness or sup
pression Of customary excavations, liberation
or Scirrhous state of the Uterus, Leucorrhpa,
and all complaints incident TO the sex. whether
arising from habits Of dissipation, imprudencies
or in The Decline or Change Of Life.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-03-21
Southern News.

In accordance with orders issued by Gen.
Stoneman from from Department headquar-
tiers, the district of East Tennessee has been
abolished, and the troops removed from that
portion of the State.
The Treasury Agents in the South have
been directed by Secretary McCulloch to
inform especially all subscribers to the Con-
federate cotton. loan that the cotton is con-
sidered the property Of the late Comic eracy
and liable to seizure and confscation.
A circular has been issued by the Assis-
tant Commissioner Of Freedmcn's Affairs at
Charleston, in which it is said that the grants
Of land to the freed people, in compliance
with General Shcrman's special field order,
will be regarded as good and valid, while
arrangements will be made to accommodate
The former owners on other lands not other
wise appropriated.
A dispatch dated Norfolk, Va, the 18th,
says: Mr. Flint, paymaster in the United
States Navy, and sub-editor, under Charles
W. Butts Of the Norfolk Old Dominion, was
logged in his office yesterday, by three gen.
tlemcn. Mr.. Flint wilfsurviv his wounds.
Upon the approach of the assailants, the
assistant editors fled, including Mr.. Butts. y
The Richmond Inquirer says that twenty
one Swedish immigrants who passed that city
last summer on their way to find employment
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-03-21
Domestic Paragraphs.

Ground was broken for the building Of
new opera house at st. Paul, Mimi, on The
LIST inst.
"A free bridge is to be built across tho
mississippi river above Fort Smelling, Min
nesota.
"A bridegroom in Indianapolis. Ind.
last week, rendered the marriage fee in
sausages.
Ten cents was the reward of some
burglars who blew open o safe at New
Haven last Saturday.
"A negro woman has sued the proprie.
tors Of the indianapolis Gazette for libel.
laying the damages at $4,000.
"A girl of Is is ON trial at Boston for
bigamy. Her first husband, married at
the mature age Of IA, is in the state prison,
"A man went into a saloon in Bridoe-
port, c., the other night, called for few
raw oysters and astonished the natives bv
eating 165.
The number Of hogs packed at Cincin-
natl during the recent packing season was
354, O79, being 3,479 over the number Of the
previous year.
1t to estimated that the cost Of the build
ings now under contract to be erected at st,
Paul, Mimi, the coming season, will amount
to over 5000, 900.
There are sixty cities and towns in Iowa
which have at least 1000; thirty seven
have over 1000; eighteen over 5000 Mint
over 1000; eight over 5000.
Over two hundred carcasses of three
days old veal were seized by the sanitar,
police in Washington Market, New York, OF
tho 9th, and about fifty on the 10th.
AT On auction sale Of unclaimed express
packages at New Haven on Tuesday, ont
man paid two dollars for package which
proved to contain forty good ooon-skins.
st. Paul is envcloped in blackness afte1
dark, the gas company refusing to allow Til,
street lamps to be lighted until the city
pays fifteen thousand dollars damages fol
vislation Of contract.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-03-21
Political Matters.

The Universal Suffrage bill has passed
the Wisconsin Senate by q vote II to L.
The Iowa Senate-by SO to 12-have
passed resolutions sustaining the Radical
majority in Congress.
The Legislature of New York, on the 10th,
voted down resolution favoring the eight
hour labor movement.
New Hampshire returns indicate the cleo
tion Of Smyth, the Union candidate for Gov
ernor, by about 5000 majority.
At New Orleans, John I. Monroe, the De-
mocratic candidate for Mayor, was elected
over Moore, National Union candidate, by
3l6 majority.
Mr.. Richard c. Mccormick, of Arizona,
has been appointed Governor of the Terri
tory Of Idaho, in place Of Caleb Lyon, Of
Lyondale.
General Frank p. Blair was nominated to
the Senate, Thursday, by the President, as
Collector Of Internal Revenue for the First
District Of Missouri.
Washington dispatches say that President
johnson will muster out 10000 colorei
troops now stationed at the South, within
the coming month.
In the Wisconsin House Of Representatives
on the 18th, the bill TO restore the death
penalty for murder, was indefinitely post
poned by vote of 4S to a.
Senator Salisbury of Delaware appeared
on the floor Of the Senate, on the 18th,
IN an offensive state Of intoxication, and
was removed by two Senators.
The Missouri Legislature is spinning out
ns session to a very paying length. II is
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now approximating its fifth month, the SEES
sion having commenced in November.
Among the papers of the late Hon. Henry
Winter Davis, there has been discovered in
the handwriting of the deceased the manu-
script of an elaborate speech advocating
universal suffrage.
Gen. Burnside will be pressed to take the
nomination Of Governor Of Rhode Island.
The General is idolized in the State, and If
he should consent to run, no other candi-
date would be likely to take the field.
The President told Congressman, on the
10th, that he regarded Louisiana as more
loyal than she had been at any previous
time since her purchase, and South Carolina
as more loyal than she had been for thirty
years.
The bill declaring persons born in this
country to be citizens, excepting Indians
not taxed, and to secure all persons in the
enjoyment Of their civil rights, has finally
passed both Houses Of Congress and will
soon be presented to the President.
The effect of the late policy Of the Prcsi-
dent in the State Of Tennessee, is stated by
Governor Brownlow, ruined the prospects
of the Union men, and they feel that there
is no safety for them unless Congress shall
choose to protect them.
The North Carolina Legislature adjourned
on the 18th. The bill allowing negroes to
testify in all cases where they are concern
cd Ia person or property, when jurisdiction
shall be restored to the Courts in the State,
was passed. The usury laws were repealed
50 far as to allow 8 per cent. interest to be
paid when an agreement to that effect is
made between parties.
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in the interior Of the State, have returned,
much dissatisfied with their treatment, pay
and food Two Of them-a man and his
wife-state that they were hired by q min
lister, for whom they labored Ave months,
and who paid them in Confederate money, .
fraud they did not discover until they un-
dertook to pay their fare on the railroad.
The party 60 directly to Chicago.
A Memphis dispatch says the high water
has broken through Terrapin Neck cut. of,
and made channel sixty feet wide, which
is gradually widening by the terrible veloc-
ity Of the water passing through it. This
will shorten the river fifteen miles. It re-
suits bene6cially to planters above, and dis
astrously to those Immediately below. The
current will strike the head Of Island lO2.
This event has been slowly but surely ap-
preaching for more than ten years. In 1860
the neck measured $50 feet; in September,
1865, l42 feet; on the 2lst of February,
1866, 80 feet.
The Vicksburg Cotton Planters Gazette
says that, GAS soon as the time arrives,
when the Southern States shall be rein
stated in the Union, (and we predict that
the day is not very distant)- future Of
prosperity will open up for the South, far
surprising anything imagined or dreamed
Of heretofore" A Savannah paper takes a
different view and says it is afraid the rails
ing of rice is at an end, and pictures the
rice swamps degenerating into unproductive
swamps. It says the white man cannot, and
the black man will not, cultivate the swamp
plantations.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-03-21

Go to the Bcst.-Go to BRYANT & STRAIT
roN's Chicago Commercial College to get
thorough, practical business education, or
to become . good Telegraph Operator.
Address for CIRCULAR, BRYANT & 6rRATToN.
Chicago, III.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-03-21

On the 18th, young man confined in jail
at Geneva on charge Of burning the barn Of
DR.. Angel, committed suicide in singular
manner. Removing the bedding from His
iron bedstead, he managed to insert his head
between the cross bars, and then rolled over,
producing strangulatiou or dislocation Of
the neck, and was found dead. He was con-
sidered to be temporarily deranged.
The Louisville Journal of Monday says
that, on Saturday, drunken man fell from
the front platform of horse car, the wheels
passing over his left arm between the elbow
and shoulder joints, scvering it completely.
At the time Of the accident the car was over
crowded with passengers. The powerful
weight crushed the bone Of the arm into
powder.
On the 28th ult., Mathew Shelley, en-
ploycd at the Adams sugar refinery in South
Boston, fell into large vat which is about
six feet deep, and which is used for boiling
bags used to convey sugar in order to
cleanse them of the saccharinc substance.
Shelley Immediately pulled himself out, but
he was terribly scalded. A physician see
ing his case comparatively hopeless, and
desiring to alleviate his sufferings some
what, gave him some laudanum, but he died
four hours after the accident.