Evening journal., 1897-09-30
A TRIPLE FUNERAL.
Three Caskets Rested Side BY
Side at Carrcroit.
LITTLE GIRLS wBREPALL-BEARERs
CARRIED THE REMAINS OF MAUD
BALDWIN TO THE SECOND
HEARsE-TOUCHING SCENES AT
THE BALDWIN HOME.


Three hearses and three bodies left
the farmhouse of Robert T. Baldwin to-
day, being taken to their last resting
place. Mr. Baldwin is the farmer for ].
Edward Addicks at the Carr farm, near
Carrcrcit, from which Maud and
George Baldwin were taken for a drive
on Tuesday by Mytro Doprlski. their
Russian dairyman.
The shocking event which followed
their departure from the house. and
which has so stirred and panied all
Brandywine hundred, was fully de-
scribed in the Evening Journal OF that
day-how the brake in which the three
were riding was Struck at Carr's road
crossing by a B. & o. express train and
all instantly killed.
The mourning or eager crowd that
assembled at the house to-day, as early
as O'clock saw a pitiable scene in the
slUting-room Of the quaint old farm
house.
AS one entered the room he beheld
the three victims lying in caskets al
most covered with flowers, side by side.
First was the white casket containing
little George, then came that of Maud,
then Ghe oiack casket of Dopriski, who
was rather a handsome foreigner, and
was clad in a black cutaway suit with
steel-striped trousers.
AS all the upper part of little Georges
head had been torn off in the accident
a little white satin skull cap was pull
ed down to his eyebrows.
Maud's SCARED face could not be
hidden, and it was only possible to sur
round the girls flaxen hair with choice
flowers, which we're also literally
strewn' over her white satin dress.
Doprisld's remains were entirely free
from mutilation, except on the left side,
and this distressing spectacle was par
TALK hidden from view.
A handsome harp of roses and carna-
tions with two broken strings, sent by
their schoolmates from Forwood school,
where both the younger victims stood
high in their classes, stood at the head
of the centre casket A card attached
said ITO Maud and George, from For
! wood School"
Other clusters of roses representing
the respective ages Of the deceased and
/ several bouquets of carnations and lilies
I were placed on or about the remains.
s THREE HEARSES AT THE HOUSE
Two white hearses drove up at 7.5I
and Undertaken Chandler black hearst
= arrived an hour later for the deaC
dairyman. by this time men anC
women were walking across the field
from every direction and coming up il
s carriages. The men lined the old-fash
u ioned lane, in crowds about the lawl
y and barn, and in a solid phalanx arouni
> the house. The women crowded int
I the house, out on the porches, whil'
- some stood on the lawn holding babie
in their arms.
MIR. Addicks arrived at o'clock, and
with Eben N. Baldwin, viewed the re
:, mains. Deputy Coroner Chandler ant
e his assistants were obliged to get som
o of the people out Of the overcrowde
II room at this juncture. Both Mr.. Ad
- dicks and Mr.. Baldwin, the uncle Of tn
victims, seemed deeply moved by tn
scene, and the latter sobbed aloud.
!, Mr. Addicks, after ordering his car
1t riages placed at the service Of the un
e dertaker retired to the parlors wher
S. intimate friends OF the family had as
sembled. He did not accompany tn
\ party to Havre de Grace.
= THE MOTHERS LAST FAREWELL
\ The most touching incident Of tn
= very sad spectacle was the final farewe
Of Mrs. r. l.. Baldwin, mother of tn
in dead children. She kissed the SCARE
s. faces again and again while every hea
y was bowed, and there were tears an
sobs from every woman in the house.
= Miss Lilly Sentman, the public schoC
teacher. led her large class Of girls
white in an adjoining room, and the
sang "Dherell Be No Dark Valley"
Undertaken Chandler announced frol
the side porch to the crowd at 81
o'clock that in five minutes the caskei
2 would be closed and all those who ha
a not yet viewed the remains might do S
by maintaining an orderly procession
No minister arrived in time to COZ
duct the services at the house. Re
Charles II. Williams, the Methodi
lg pastor, whose parishioners the BALI
I" wins are. arrived just in time to hea
al the cortege as 1t moved from the Cal
lie farm to Carrcroft station.
- BEARERS WERE LITTLE GIRLS
WHITE.
The pall-bearers for George were h
IS schoolmates-Harry Wilson, Waite
r. Farran, Howard Wilson, Joseph Robil
~ son, Boyd Primrose, Wheeler Pierso
'e- The body Of George was placed in Il
~ first hearse.
ee Three minutes thereafter two lit
n girls in white appeared carrying Il
- floral harp. Then came six other gir
in white with Maud's casket-LinC
- Talley, Annie Morrow, Mamie Leach
Mabel Pierson, Lizzie Walkerk, Rol
Rentule.
TAKEN TO HAVRE DE GRACE.
When the long cortege. headed by "a
Il white hearses, had slowly wended
way down to Carrcroft station the ives
bound b. & o. express train was stol
ar ped there and the funeral party WI
q. taken on in a special car at 8.47 a. !
10 Forty-six friends accompanied u
bodies to Havre de Grace.
At that place services were conducts
- by Rev. F. S. Mullineaux.
Rev. c. II. Williams returned to Il
el house and, at IL O'clock began Il
- funeral services over Doprlski's +
mains. A number of his Philadelph
fellow w-countrymen were present. II
members OF the order of Knights
tE pvthiae then took charge of the r