Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-10-29
HORROR BROUGHT HOME.
Hrs &. A. MARI of this City, Perishes
in the Terrible Wreck on the
e. NJ A ST p Rand

MS G- "A MARI OF this City, Perlshes
in the Terrible Wreck on the
C.. VI. 4 81. r. Road.
To readOf a terrible catastrophe in,
volying the loss of many lives in t
frightful manner, always while carrying
with 1t a shock, awakens those human
sympathies which 60 out to the afflicted
in time of misfortune or grief. The It'd,
ings of such an accident as occurred on
the c., NJ. & st. P. road yesterday
morning, and of which a detailed &C.
count is given in another column of this
paper, while impressing all with sadness
and terror, the accompanying horror and
Understandable frightfulness of the ealam-
ity are not fully realized until it is learned
thst some one from our own city is
among the lost 1t will be many heart
in Rock Island that will be plunged into
grief when it is learned that Mrs G. A .
Mari. of this city, from all present in
dications, was among those who persisted
| in that terrible wreck.
In the Chicago 7ri6une'S report of the
catastrophe appears the following:
One of the guests of the Grand Pacific
said that friend of Mrs. MARI the wife
of civil engineer formerly at Rock Isl
and, called at the company's office yester-
/ L., that 1ulu Ua
the missing He said that he had accom>
panied Mrs. Mari to the depot night be
| fore last. She would not take a sleeper.
SAYING that she could not sleep well, and
| preferred to travel in the day coach.
She boarded this particular car, and is
believed to be among those who lost their
| lives in the wreck.
The Iatsl'> 0ceda says:
Mrs. Mari wife of civil engineer at
Rock Island, H., came from Hough:on,
Mich, to visit friends near Chicago. She
boarded the wrecked train for the north.
Before starting she told her friends that
she had rested SO poorly the last time
that she Travelled in sleeper that she in~
tended travelling this time in the coach.
Her friends tried to dissuade her, but she
was determined. She took the COACH
and, it is presumed. persisted.
Mr. Mari has been for sometime en-
gagged in making government surveys at
Portage lake canal, Michigan. Hough-
ton is on that lake, and as the Inter
Ocean said the Mrs. Mari whom it is fear
ed has persisted, had recently bee there,
it is probable that it is the Mrs Mari of
Rock Island who is meant. An ARGUS re-
porter called upon Maj. Mckenzie this
morning in whose department of service
Mr. Mari was engaged, aud that gentleman
said he had been at St. Paul the first of
the week. and while there learned that
Mr.. Mari aud his wife were eX-
pected there shortly. 1t is al
together probable, therefore, that the lady
was cnroute to meet her husband when
she met her frightful death.
Mrs. Mari was the bride of about
eight months. Her maiden name was
Cordeia Butler, and Mr.. Mari mar
ried her at Buffalo. n, Y. February
25th last, bringing her Immediately to
this city, and their home was at the
Harper house until his duties took him
away, but they expected to return to
Rock Island during the winter, or next
spring at any rate. During her brief res
idence in this city Mrs. Mari had ma dc
many friends here, as in Davenport and
Moline. She was always cheerful and
bright, and had happy faculty of enter
tanning that made her popular favorite
with the guests at the hotel, and in the
circles in which she moved.
At the time of President Clevelands
marriage to Miss frankie Folsom last
June, Mrs Mari furnished some interest
ing intelligence concerning the new first
lady of the land, which appeared in the
ARGUS at that time, Mrs. Mari having
submitted to an interview on the subject,
and being life long acquaintance and
schoolmate of the presidents bride, as
well as having had personal acquain
lance with Mr.. Cleveland for years. she
was enabled to give to the public some
facts that had not been made known
Mrs. Mari and Mrs. Cleveland had been
brought mp together, their families being
neighbors, and in their early days were
members of the same Sunday school
class, and the interview with her on a
subject that was occupying the attention
ST the nation at the time, was widely
read, copied andom cmented upon.
Mr. and Mrs Mari left Rock Island the
middle of last June, going first to Colora>
do, and stopping here on their way east,
later on in the season. They expected to
make this city their home again, as soon
as there was work for Mr.. Mari in the
government Office here.