Evening star., 1902-01-01


come by gas in bath room, and he then
| fell in the water and was drowned.
James Bayliss was another victim of gas.
| In the last case of accidental death from
illuminating gas there were two victims.
One of them was George .Klingler and the
other was an unknown woman whom he
| had taken to his room with him. Dora
Smith, a child six years DID, was run over
| and killed. while colored man named Ma
son Thomas lost his life by board from
| fence being blown against him. In March
Nathaniel Taylor was struck by street
car and killed. The same month John Nc
| Mahon was killed by a telegraph, pole fall
| ing him. Harry Baldwin, nineteen
/ months old, got hold of a bottle of poison
| and swallowed it with deadly effect, and
three days later Thomas Ross was, killed
| by n piano falling on him. James A Acton
was electrocuted at the plant of the United
| States Electric Light Company. He en-
| tered a small frame structure of the COM
pany at night and came in contact with a
! live wire. Charles T. Musson was electro
| cuted i'll June by touching one Of, the, over
| read wires of the Great Falls trolley line.
Early in May Mrs z. H. Launt was knock
ed down by bicycle near 11th and F
streets northwest ara killed Wlist.n IoaFnes,
| the rider of the wheel, was exonerated.
| The body of an unknown colored woman,
| supposed to have been accidentally drown
| ed, was recovered from the river near the
| Chain bridge. Charles Thomas, colored
| watchman, was knocked down by Capital
| Traction ear near 18th and G streets the
| IS Thomas Smoet was killed. by. falling
| from an ice wagon week later Ella M.
| Marbury was run over by a wagon ana
| so seriously injured that death ensued Jas.
Jarrett was accidentally drowned in. the
| Potomac a few days later. Samuel Com
| pers of the American Federation of Labor
| fell while getting off a street car on II
| street near his home on June q and was
| dangerously injured. He recovered after a
| long Illness. A Tenleytown car caused the
| death of Peter A. Smith the night of July
| l, while a bullet from weapon fired by
some unknown person seriously injured Mrs.
McMurtrie three days later. George E.
| Paxton, Robert Larkins and Edward Gate
wood were killed before the close of the
J month Paxton fell from the roof of a
| house. Larkins fell in an ice house and
Gatewood also had a fall. The first day of
August Andrew Vogelwide fell in a build
ing, where he was working. and was killed
r. X. Walker of Capitol Hill was drowned
at Chesapeake Beach while trying to save
the hat Of a friend that was in the water.
Benjamin Gordon, a colored boy, was
drowned near the steamboat wharves, while
Joseph w. Compton was drowned in pond
near the base ball park. ----- 49,
Malvin Butler was checked to death by
piece of meat and Dolly Brown. colored
child, died from the efforts of big dose of
whisky. The child was too young to know
what she was drinking. One of the sad
dest drowning accidents of the season
CURED the night of August q, when Mrs.
Maud Pyles walked overheard at Marshall
Hall. Three weeks later Willie McEnaney,
six years Cd was drowned in Chevy Chase
lake in sight of other children who were
powerless to help him. Late in September
the body of an unknown colored man was
found In the James Creek canal, and a
month later William Wallace met similar
fate in the river An electric car fatally
injured Mrs. Augustine Oelbernan.- Will
lam Frank Thyson, patient at Garfield
Hospital, jumped or fell from the window
of his room during. the temporary absence
of the nurse and died. colored man, who
was known as Billy Williams and also
under several other names, received fatal
injuries at the plant of the United States
Electric Light Company by falling through
the ash chute. The night of November 6
Mr.. A. K. Williams, the stationer was
killed by a street car at 9th and X streets
and Carl Schmidts neck broken by
the elevator at the Charles Schneider Bak-
ing Company's establishment. Five DAYS
later William ]. Pagan. two and one-half
years Old, drank quantity of paregoric and
died '' - r -1T srr0r
Charles Mcintosh died from suffocation
while in the building at 100 O. street during
a fire. While hurrying across the street
car tracks at 9Th street and Massa chusetts
avenue, the morning of November 49, An
drew Martin, a plate printer was knocked
down by moving car and so seriously in
Jured that he died in short time. Ilumi-
mating gas ended the life of Thomas E.
Peddicord of Gaithersburg After attend
ing one of the theaters he aceempanied a
friend home, and the next morning he was
IphIlti utStu he dHdlr was purely c.
cident. Thomas Blake, a follower of the
races, was killed by a Columbia car near
the Benning race track. He had been
drinking, and was probably asleep on the
track at the time he received the injury
Charles Cox, an inmate of Soldiers Home,
was killed by the elevator at the home
Ihe accident occurred Sunday December
ID, and the inquest, held two days later.
showed that death was the result of the
man own careessness.
Suicides Numerous
The people who were tired of life and who
succeeded in their efforts at self-destrlc-
tion during the year numbered nearly two
score Most of them We're residents of this
city and several of them We're well known
or were in good circumstances In most in
stances it developed that the deeds were
prompted by Illness, although liquor and
jealousy caused some of the unfortunates 10
end their days on earth. One of the most
sensational suicides of the year was the
case of Mary l.. Renner who only few
days ago ended her life in Chase's Grand
Theater by swallowing a solution of car
bolic acid strong enough to cause almost
instant death. Her case was one of love
for an actor, and the poor girl was unable
to exist without him. Mrs. Mary J. Cock
erells name was that of the first suicide TO
be recorded during the year. She chose
drowning in the cold waters of the Potomac
as the means of death. Five weeks elapsed
before Albert McCormche tired of life in
/ hailed illuminating gas and furnished case
for the coroner. Before the month of
March was half gone Daniel F. Leech and
C. II. Moreheiser cut their throats. Six
persons committed suicide during the month
of March. John w. KeIeher. whose mind
had become impaired by illness, sent a bui-
1 let through his brain the 18th of the month
and Charles II. Fleiner followed his exam
pie two days later Mrs. e. T. Todd cut
her wrist Charles Morum used a revolver
Margaret Maher took poison. an unknown
man near the Chain bridge shot himself and
| an Italian cook from New York cut his
| throat in the woods near Twinng City His
name was Leonard Isner. Martin Myers
used gas with deadly effect the latter part
of April, while during the month of Nav
Mrs. Bridget Finley ended her successful
business career by swallowing poison. .Joa-
| quin Margaron, an inmate of st. Eliza
beth's, took his life by hanging himself
John A. Downs died in the water during the
early part of the month of June During
the latter part of the same month Mrs
! Mary Bailey and Thomas King made at
| tempts to end their lives, the former by
cutting her throat and the latter by drown
| ing. The injury to the former was of un-
usual severity but the doctors at the Emer-
gency Hospital saved her life. William
! Black Smith starved to death during the
month of July, and early in August William