Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-02-10
ALL NET ONE FATE.
A Family of Six Hurried Into
Eternity.
MOTHER, FATHER AND CHILDREN

Betrayed by the Treaeherous lee and En-
gnifed-The Mothers Frantic Rush to
Her Doom->esen Boys Drowned at
New Orleans While Boat RidinS-ruo
Fatal Railway wreeks-Three Men Lose
Their Iives-BoiIed Alive
KyGsTos. " Y, Feb I0.-The four
children Of Jacob 2 Slater were skating On
the lake AZ Binnevater. about six miI=s from
here, yesterday afternoon, WHEN the lea
which was bat few inches in rhicknsss.
gave way, and ths lirtls onss were precipi-
tstsi into the water Their shouts were
heard BY the Members Of the family who
lived near by, and the father and mOthsr
rushed 20 tie rescue By the time they had
reached the lake the four children had disap-
pearsd beneath the ice
Mother and Father Follow the Children
The mother. frantic With the thought Of
Der drowning children rllsis-zi upcg the ice
which gave wsy bensath her wright. and she
sank bereeth the surface Mr. Slater then
attempted 10 reach his wife, and hs, too
was drowned The entire family Is wiped
out 81 existence Last night hundreds of
peopls were gathered about the lake searck-
ing for the bodias
NEW ORLEANS, Feb I0-Seven boys were
drowned in the river AZ Csrrulton Yesterday
BY the sinking Of two yawls IN which they
were taking ride The strong current car
NED the boats against some barges AZ the
Octavia street wharf and upset then, There
were eight BOYS In the boats. Wilton
Robin, aged :, escaped The drowned are:
Prank Landry. agsl II; George Sampson,
Is; Alvy Fulaa. "A: Louis Fulds- -: Willie
Wintons, lG. Martin Perrier. l.. and Eddie
kept, Is
Fatal Wreck on the Norfolk and Western.
ROANOKE, Va, Feb. l0-Ths passenger
Train Having this place going 20 Bristol,
Tenn, on the Norfolk and Western railroad.
was wrecked about IL O'Clock yesterday
morning az HuddIeston's Mil, thirty-two
miles east Of Bristol The accident was
caused By the rails SPREADING Five coaches
were deraiiei George Kerr, express mes
senger. was killed Instantly B. W Book.
mail agent, Was fatally injured Conductor
J. W Barnes was cut on the had and seri-
ousiy injured, Baggsgenastsr Adams was
hurt internally and Is supposed to be fatally
injured Lewis Williams and - Hartman.
two passengers wer. slightly hurt
An ImbeciIe sczlded to Death.
COLUMBUS. o.. Feb. ia horrible scci-
dent occurred last Friday at the homs for
the irnbeciles, near here, by which one II the
inmates was scaldei 70 death, but the facts
were suppressed by the management until
yesterday Jennie Whitehead IT-year-oli
inmate from Hamilton. was sent with an
other patient to take a bath She did not
know how TO get the water at the proper
Temperature, and Jennie was 50 terribly
scaldsd that c0nyulszons set IN. ami in = few
hours the unfortunate girl was dead
Serious Wreck on the Northern Central
HARaIssURG. Pc, Feb i0-An OPEN switch
caused a serious wreck on tins Northern Cen
tral railway at Marshs Run, near this CITY.
yesterday morning. the Pacific eolliding with
frsght train demolishing both engines
Arthur Emerton. If Baltimore. fireman Of
the express, was killed Isaac Stermer. en-
Elneer Of the passenger train, and Engineer
Ysgie, Of the freight. were SERIOUSLY injured.
and express messsngsrs AcCahsn and Pow
nall badly hurt