The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-11-05
FATAL FALL.
DEATH OF COL. F. W. CHANDLER
Reached the City Last Evening
and Expired at His
HOm".
Brief Sketch of tAe Eminent
Attorneys Log Career.

MS residence, NO. 1IU5 west avenue
at about 10:30 o'clock last night. His
death was caused by
FALLING FROM A PASSENGER TRAIN
while in motion, brief mention O
which was made In yesterday
STATESMAN.
Col. Chandler left this city last Mon
day evening, via the I. 81 G. N. Ry.
to 20 to the town of Rockwell, on lie,
gal business. Early Tuesday morn,
ing his law partner. III. Z. Shelly
Esq, received q telegram from Pales
tine, saying he had fallen from traiI
and
| WAS BADLY INJURED.
Capt. w. D. Shelley left that morn
ing for Palestine, and nothing more
was learned here until early yesterday
morning, when the TO flowing telegram
was received:
| II. E. Shelly, Austin:
Col. Chandler resting easier; no i'm.
mediate danger. Will come on the
$50 train with him. Send DIR. Fisher
to meet the train.
(Signed w. d. SHELLEY.
/ GOING TO HIS RELIEF.
DR.. G. E. Fisher, accompanied by
Mr.. H. r. Shelley and Col. Fred
Carleton, took the 1890 train yester-
day morning, to meet Col. Chandler.
The party arrived in the city at $50
last evening on the south bound train,
and the injured gentleman was con-
veyed to his residence, where he
fingered until 1870 p. m. when death
| put an end to his suffering.
But meagre details could be Oh
tanned of the
FATAL FALL
| which caused his death. 1t appears
that after arriving at Palestine, he
had to change cars and wait some
| hours for the train which was to take
him to MineOla. He occupied the
| time partly at the hotel and partly at
the depot. When last seen at the
hotel he remarked to an acquaintance
that he would go to the depot and get
his valise. Shortly after this, the
TRAIN FOR MINEOLA
arrived, and Col. Chandler got aboard
Of it. When about mile south of
NecheSville, and ten miles north of
Palestine, evidently in attempting 10
pass from one car to another, he fell
|
embankment. This occurred about
1 o'clock Tuesday morning. He laid
where his bruised body stopped until
4 o'clock, when a south bound freight
came along, was stopped, and the train
men picked him up,
PERFECTLY UNCONSCIOUS.
He was placed on fiat car, brought
to Palestine, and the railroad compa-
ny's physician, DR.. Hunter, called to
his relief. The physician administer
ed opiates. The following night Capt:
Shelley arrived in Palestine, but too
late to get possession Of the telegraph
wires, hence the
ABSENCE OF PARTICULARS
from yesterdays STATESMAN.
/ Col. Chandler rallied su Efficiently,
once or twice, at Palestine, to converse
and give directions, even mentioning
the street and number of his residence
When asked by some one how he hap
pened to fall, he replied that the brake
man woke him up, saying, 'the next
station is yours" He rushed out on
the platform and fell. His
+! WATCH WAS FOUND
near where he was lying. Upon ex-
animation it was found that Colone
Chandler had sustained number OF
injuries. Both arms were bruised, the
right one being broken at the elbow
joint; one or two severe bruises were
found on his head, and the righ
side and lower limbs paralyZed
Doubtless there are internal injurie:
also. He never spoke after o'clocl
yesterday.
NATIVITY AND MARRIAGES.
Col. Chandler was born at Fail Riv
CT, Mass, Sept. 18th, 1913, being z.
!, years and one month OLD at the tim
of his death. His first wife was Mis-
Borden, of Fall River, and his secon'
Miss Fanny j. Rice, formerly of Ala
bama, to whom he was married il
, Austin, December 18th, 1871. He hat
J no children by either marriage, bu
his second wife Is the mother of Mrs
J 81. E. Shelley. He was the OldeS
member of his family and has on
sister, Mrs. Hannah Hathaway, living
at Taunton, Mass.
II HIS PROCLIVITIES.
81 He was a member of the Baptis
church and of the Independent Orde
of Odd Fellows, being an ancient. HI
: and Hon. A. j. Hamilton (afterward
: governor and congressman of Texas
came to this state together from Ala
bama, and settled, as partners, in tn
: practice of law at Lagrange in 1874;
continuing the partnership subse
. quently TO 1888 in Austin.
Il He served as private in the MeXi
J; can war, in Colonel Ben McCulloch'
q command of Texas troops.
IN POLITICS AND LAW.
He took an active interest in poll
: tics and was the nominee for attorne
q general On the ticket led by Genera
e Hammer for governor. He was
}. candidate for the Confederate col
gress, for which he was beaten, how
ever, by Colonel Claib Herbert. HI
) law connections in the course of
long and successful practice were
+ Hamilton & Chandler, in LaGrang,
S and in Austin, first Hamilton, Chan(
I Ter 6 Anderson; next Chandler
. Turner, (now Judge E. B. Turner c
d the United States district COURT; the
It Chandler, turner & Carlton; the
Chandler & Carlton; then Chandle
, Carlton g Robertson (Dow Mayo
e Robertsonl, and lastly Chandler
It Shelley (Mr. H. E. Shelley
e BUSINESS ENTERPRISES.
/. Though prominent as a lawyer,
= had been equally so in other pursuits
n He had been raised with knowledg
IS of the great cotton factories, fl
2, which Fall River Is noted, and at OF
Z, time had the management of larg
) mandatory in Fall River, and su
y 81 quently in Columbus, Ga. He Wi
II at another time at the head of mimi
r. operations in Dahlonega, Ga, al
ID Chambers county, Ala, and ownt
~ ~ some flour mills in Randolph count
$, Ala.
to sold TIGE."
Colonel Chandler, as lawyer, W
~ particularly successful and disti
ne guished for his exactness and persi
Mt tency as claims attorney, so much {
e. e. that he had acquired the expressi'
iii soubriquet of "Old Tige"-as one fro
ut whom no one against whom he had
i