The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-05
AUSTIN CORBIN A CORPSE.
HIS COACHMAN MEETS DEATH IN
THE SAME ACCIDENT.

The millionaire Capitalists Team
SHES While Leaving His Place at
Newport, n. H, and Throws the
Party Down an Eight-FOOt En-
bankment Against "a stone Wall.
The Accident Witnessed by MIR
Corbin's Family From Their Pr
azza.
Newport. n. H, June 4.-Austin Corbln
and HIS nephew, Corbin Edgen, with Dr.
Paul Kunzier and coachman John Stokes,
started on a fishing trip about 3 O'Clock
this afternoon. On going out of the yard
at the farm house the horses shied, tip
ping over the open carriage and throwing
the occupants down an embaukment about
eight feet against a stone wall. The fam
lily saw the accident from the piazza and
hurried to the scene, with the farm help.
The entire party were found TO be serious
ly hurt.
The coachman was unconscious and re-
mained so until o'clock, when he died.
Mr.. Corbin was conscious. but was so
terribly injured that he died at s:42 o'clock
tonight.
DR.. Kunzier was thrown over the wall
and sustained broken arm and sprained
gell had his leg twice broken between the
knee and ankle.
Coachman Stokes skull was fractured
Mr.. Corbin's Injuries consisted of a COM
pound fracture of the right leg above and
below the knee, a fearful scalp wound
over four inches long on the forehead
cutting through the skull; one on the right
side of the head three inches long and the
lip and chin cut badly
The cause of the team shying Is said to
10 ha h. =
them without binders for the first time
Mr.. Corbin was at the head of the Cor
bin Banking Company of New York, and
Of the great corporation that controls the
network of railroads which. starting from
Brooklyn and Long Island City, gridiron-
ing Long Island and Connecticut with the
innumerable waterside resorts on the
island. he was also the protector and pro-
moter of the scheme TO shorten the time
from New York to Europe by means of a
line Of steamers to start from Fort Pond
Bay, on Eastern Long Island bay, there
TO connect with his Long Island railways.
The railroad has only recently been ex-
tended to the proposed new harbor
New York, June 4.-Austin Corbin was
born in Newport, N. H., July Il, 1927 His
father was a farmer who was many
times elected to the legislature. Austin
taught a country school He afterward
of New Hampshire and Gov. Metcalf of
Rhode Island and finished the course at
the Harvard law school where he secur-
ed his degree in 1849. He practiced while
at home, but in 1851 removed to Daven-
port, Iowa, where he remained until 1865.
Though successful as lawyer, Mr.. Cor
bin did not practice long. He became a
partner in 1854 of the banking firm of
Macklot & Corbin, which was the only
concern of the kind in Davenport which
did not suspend payment in the financial
panic Of 1857. Mr.. Corbin organized the
nrst national bank, which began business
under the national currency act of 1868
The bank was successful and he was ena-
bled in 1865 to come to New York with a
considerable fortune Here he founded
the Corbin Banking Company and acquir-
ed interest after interest until he became
one of the leading financiers of the COM
munity.
Mr.. Corbin had a beautiful home on
Long Island, and another in New Hamp-
shire, besides his town houses. His New
Hampshire property consisted of 25.000
acres around Newport, all mountain and
valley. This last property is the greatest
and best stocked game preserve on the
continent.