The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-25
/ Columbia College Football Player
Instantly Killed Last Night
WITHIN SIGHT OF HIS own HOME
HIS Mothers Intuition Informs Her OF
the Accident Father Seized with
ApopIexy on Hearing the News and
May Not Recover.
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS.

New YORK, Nov 25-William II. Camp,
o member of the Columbia college foot
ball team, and youngest son Of Hugh N.
Camp, millionaire real estate
operator, was struck and In
stantly killed by the south bourd
Empire State express on the New York
Central road at $40 o'clock last evening
as he aIighted from an mp train at Nor
ris Heights station, where the family
live.
He was thrown twenty feet, his skull
crushed in on the left side and his jaw
and nose broken.
The station at Morris Heights
Is enclosed by high walls on
either side of the track. but there
Is no bridge across the rails. Neither IL
there fence between the tracks to pre-
vent persons leaping from train di-
rectly in front Of another, AS young Camp
did.
Engineer Kessted. of the express. saw
the accident, and stopped his train. and
the body of the unfortunate young
man was placed in the baggage
compartment and carried to High
bridge, a mile below. 1t was taken to
the police station there and Roundsman
Back was sent to Fairawn, as Mr..
Camps estate Is called. to notify the
family.
A Mothers Intuition OF Calamity.
He was met In the reception room Of the
great square lowered mansion by Mrs.
Camp, the dead boys mother, and John
McKesson Comp, an elder br ther.
As soon as Mrs. Camp saw the police
mans uniform she cried: HAS Willie
been killed at football en
Roundsman Back asked her then 10
leave the room, but she refused to 20 and
then John Camp asked:
HAS he been killed by the cars?'
The policeman did not answer, but his
face told the story and Mrs. Camp fell
with a crash upon the floor.
Servants hearing the fall rushed into
the room and she was soon restored to
Consciousness.
She ran up stairs to Mr.. Camps room
He was dressing for dinner and started in
alarm as she rushed in, her faca white and
her eyes staring in terror.
''Why, what Is the mattery he asked,
advancing quickly towards her.
Between her sobs she told him, but
before she had quite completed her story
be suddenly reeled and fell. He had
been attacked by an epileptic fit, COM
mon in cases OF shocks such as he had
received.
The sound Of the fall and Mrs. Camps
cry brought assistancs quickly to the
spot Mr.. Camp was carried to his be
Hugh n. Camp. jr.. aud John Camp drove
to the houses of several doctors, none OF
whom lives near Fairlawn.
His Father May Not Recover.
The young men were unable to procure
medical aid for more than an hour. Mr.
Camp did not recover, and 1t was said
last night that he was in very critical
condition. He has been In poor health
lately and having had great deal of
trouble with his heart.
There is no batter known family than
the Camps in the annexed district. They
have occupied Falrlawn for more than
thirty years.
The place crowns high hill, and the
house, which stands about quarter If a
mile back from the river, is one OF the
landmarks OF the region.
William III. Camp was 81 years Old and
weighed about one hundred and eighty
pounds. He was handsome.
fair skinned young man, ana
was very popular among tho res
deuts OF the Ridge" as the heights ex-
tendi along the east bank OF the EIar.
lem river, from High Bridge to Fordham
are known, and which arc taken up en-
tirely by elegant country homes