Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-09-13
ROOSEVELT IN
A COLLISION
Coach In Which He Was Driv'
ing to Lenox Struck by
an Electric Car.
PRESIDENT ONLY BRUISED
Secret Service Agent Craig Is
Killed and Driver Ser
iousIy Injured.
PRESIDENT ONLY BRUISED
MOTORMAN ALSO KILLED
Secretary CorteIyou, Who Had a Seat
in Presidents Carriage, Escapes
With Trifiing Iniuries-The
Horses Were Killed.

Lenox Mass, Sept. A terrible &C
hdent overlook the presidents coach
F.. short distance from Pittsfield at
tbout 10 o'clock this morning. After a
hort visit at the home Of ex-senator
Dawes, the president started on a long
lrive to Lenox. The party had not
rome far when an electric a ran into
hem, throwing everyone to the ground
md badly damaging the coach.
The president received a cut on the,
read, Governor Crane was bruised, and
William Craig, a secret service man.,
vas instantly killed.
The president was able to resume the
Quincy to Lenox, but sent word ahead
here should be no cheering.
After leaving Senator Dawes house,
our carriages, containing the presi-
lent and his immediate party, were
lriven down South street, two carriages
IN either side. When near the Coun-
ry club, at a railroad crossing, an
electric car was noted coming at a
errific rate of speed. Mr.. Craig sig.
JAILED the motorman to stop, but he
apparently paid no attention to the,
warming, and the car came p~lunging
m It's work Of death. The presidents
;arriage was literally smashed to
,ieces.
"0toifIdh was SPSSuI19 var
A witness OF the accident stated the
notorman was speeding his car in or
Ter to reach the club. The president,
Governor Crane and Secretary Cortel-
Iou were piled up in a heap.
An awe-striCken crowd which wit
lessed the accident rushed to the pres
dents carriage, but with no expecta-
ion he would be alive. The president
vas cut on the right side of the chin,
md his face is much swollen.
Secret Service Agent Craig was
killed outright, and d. J.. Pratt, the
lriver Of the coach, sustained a frac-
ure of the skull, which 1t is feared will
Jesuit fatally.
The accident happened at a point
| mile and a half from this city, near
he Pittsfield Country club house,
While the president and party were en-
Dying a coaching trip from Dalton,
Governor Cranes home, where the
president spent the night, to Lenox, a
distance Of twenty miles over the Berk-
hire hills.
Conductor and Motorman Arrested.
The car was in charge of Conductor
James Kelly, with Luke j. Madden on
he front platform. The car struck
he a in h rear and smashed in
he back Of the vehicle, tipping it over
md throwing the occupants to the
.round. Motorman Madden and Con-
luctor Kelly were at once arrested and
brought to Pittsfield.
The president, who, in falling from
he coach. sustained only slight bruises
NJ a few scratches, and Secretary
Cortelyou, who suffered in q manner
similar to the president, with the ex-
.eption that he was cut on the head,
With others of the party, went to the
country club, near by, where their
Wounds were dressed.
In a short time they proceeded to
he Curtis hotel, Lenox, arriving there
1t IL o'clock. After remaining on the
jceen of the accident an hour, the pres
dent determined to continue his jour-
ley to tockbridge.
~Stockbridge, Mass, Sept. 3.-The
Presidents train left here at 1915
o'clock for Bridgeport, Conn, from
which point he will embark for oyster
Bay.