Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-06-03
BOAT ACCIDENT.
A Days Pleasure Marred by the
Drowning of a Companion.
A TRAIN CRASHES INTO A TALLY.HO.
Five Young People Killed and Number Of
Others injured-Fatal Bicycle Colli-
sl0n-Panic at Cincinnati Park
Fatal Fire.

CHESTER, Pa, June Item young
pupils at the Williamson trade school
came down to the Delaware river for q
sail and the days pleasure was marred
almost at the outset by an accident
which cost the life Of Gustavus
Schmidt, one Of the boys, and nearly
resulted fatally for companion,
Clarence Siegel. Schmidt, Siegel and
two others got into one skiff, while
the other seven boys occupied another,
and reaching the river prepared to
hoist the sail Schmidt assisted in
getting the sail ready and, while put
ting up the spirit, heavy gust of wind
struck the sail, and Schmidt and Siegel
were knocked into the river. The
boys In the boat were unable to man
age the craft, which drifted away
from the struggling lads, both Of whom
could swim. Siegel was fortunate
enough to catch rope and was pulled
into the skitf, but Schmidt, encountered
with his clothing and butfeted by the
waves, sank exhausted.
A TRAIN CRASHES INTO A TALLY-Ho.
New York, June Five young peo-
pie were killed and number of Others
injured In an accident which occurred
yesterday afternoon at Valley Springs,
L. |. A tally-ho, with a party Of q
excursionists from the Greene Avenue
Baptist church, Brooklyn, which
started out for days outing through
Long Island, was struck by train on
the Long Island railroad at the Mer-
rick boulevard crossing. The crash
came almost without warning, and the
occupants of the coach had no time to
make any effort to escape. Beforethe
most of them knew of the impending
danger the train was upon them, the
coach upset and the engine pushing it
along the rails, the dead and injured
being cut and mangled beneath it.
FATAL BICYCLE COLLISION
ATLANTA, Ca, June Miss Annie
Hunter, while out bicycling with her
escort, was run down by a negro bicy-
clist, Charles Tate. Miss Hunter and
her escort, Leon Evans, saw another
rider coming toward them and they
pulled to the right, expecting the per-
son who was approaching to do like
wise. When near them, the negro
suddenly turned to the left and col
lided with Miss Hunter Both were
thrown to the ground with much vio-
lence and lay in the road unconscious.
Tate was taken to Grady hospital,
where 1t was found that he had sus-
tanned fracture of the base of the
brain, and death speedily resulted.
Miss Hunter was taken to the home of
her father, where she lies in an un-
conscious condition.
PANIC AT A CINCINNATI PARK.
CINCINNATI, June l.-Shortly after
two o'clock an earthquake, was felt
here in the suburbs. The printers ran
out Of the newspaper offices. The oc-
,upants of other buildings were
Harmed. At Cony Island and Chester
park, the Geological gardens and else
where there was CONSERVATION among
he holiday crowds. At the lagoon on I
he Kentucky side there was picnic
lmong several thousand people on the
rounds. The waters in the lagoon
we're so rough that the life-saving
rev went to the relief OF those out in ,
he electric pleasure boats.
FATAL FIRE. ,,
RICHMOND, Va, June AT two ,
'clock yesterday fire broke out in the ,
warehouse of Charles King a. Sons, at
Charlottesville. A dozen or more per- !
ons entered the building with view ,
o saving the books and other property,
When key of powder exploded, de-
nolishing the building, catching sew
raj under the falling timbers and |
'ricks and inaicting injuries from c
which one has died. c