The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-03

Kansas City, Mo, October 29.-Mrs.
Emma Booth-Tucker consul in Amer
|ica of the Salvation Army, wife of Com
lmander Booth-Tucker and second
daughter of William Booth, founder of
the army. was killed in the wreck of the
I~eastbound California train No. 2 near
Dean Lake, Mo-, e~iehty-five miles east
of Kansas City, on the Santa Fe. at 10
O'clock last night: Colonel Thomas Hol-
land. in charge of the Salvation Army
lat Amity. Colo. was fatally injured.
seriously hurt. The dead and injured
were taken to Fort Madison, Iowa
Mrs. Booth-Tucker was rendered
unconscious and died within half an
hour after being injured. Her skull
was fractured and she was injured in
ternally. Mrs. Booth-Tucker was on
her way from a visit to the Colony at
|Amity, Colo, to Chicago, where she
WAS to have met her husband today.
The wrecked train left Kansas City
last night Only the three last cars,
two Pullmans and a dined were wreck
The Pullmans were completely de-
.mOliShed, while the diner was badly
damaged. In the first Pullman, Mrs.
BOoth-Tucker and Colonel Holland, who
were the sole occupants of that car,
had just gone to the forward end for a
consultation Two of the Pullmans
Str1lrE a stool wafer tank with SnPh
force as to move it five feet from it's
foundation and when the crew reached
the scene, both Mrs. Booth-Tucker and
Colonel Holland were found neon
scious. They with the other injured
We're after much delay taken to the de-
pot platform a few blocks distant where
everything possible was done for them.
regained consciousness and with
in half an hour, the noted Salvation
Army leader succumbed to her injuries.
Had Mrs. Booth-Tucker followed out
her original intention she would have
missed the wreck. She arrived in al
saS City on the California train which
wrecked yesterday evening n in
tended remaining here until this morn
ing. She found she could make a brief
trip up town between trains. however,
and later decided to continue east IN
the same train.
Mrs. Booth-Tucker. who was Miss
Emma Booth, married Frederick Tuck
.er in 1888. He assumed her name as
part of his own. He was born in In
diana and lived there several years af-
ter the marriage. He was commission
'er of the army in Indiana Mrs. Booth
Tucker and her husband were appointed
to the army in America in
March 1896, succeeding Eva Booth, who
had supplanted her brother, B~allington
Booth. who had been removed by the
general.
Mrs. Booth-Tucker was said to be
the ablest of all the Booth children. She
had enthusiasm, tempered with cool
Judgment and executive ability.
Topeka, Kas., October 29.-James
Hurley, general superintendent of the
Western Grand Division of the Santa
lFe said today in connection with the
wreck at Dean Lake:
The brake rod of the sleeper dropped
down and caught on the switch. this
quickly derailed this car, another sleep
er. the dining car and Pullman follow
ling"
Fort Madison, Iowa, October 29.-Miss
H. Dammes, Mrs. Booth-Tucker's Sec
rotary. tells the following of the wreck
and the death of Mrs. Booth-Tucker:
, "When we left Amity We secured
herths in the tourist ar, but last
evening concluded TO change to a stan
|dard Pullman sleeping car. We had
made our arrangements to tbs end
when the accident occurred. l had gone
back into The Pullman, leaving Mrs.
Booth-Tucker and Colonel Holland in
"a tourist sleeper which was being run
unOccupied, they being busily engaged
in conversation. I had been talking
with them, but left to arrange our bag
gage in the Pullman. l had left them
but a few minutes when the crash came.
Although thrown violently about, l
was not hurt. When e~Xtricat-d from
the wreck. Mrs. Booth-Tucker was ia
ken into the waiting room of the station
lat beam Lake. where she was placed
upon a mattress. n surgical aid given
by Dr.. Charles Hunter. of Pittsburg,
Kas., who was a passenger on the train.
The aid vas of no avail, however, her
skull being fractured and she died al
1880 o'clock. two hours after the &C.
cident happened. She was unconscious
all the time. She mOaned pltifully for
a short time but her meanings ceased
when her clothing was loosened"
Chicago. October 29.-Commander
Booth-Tucker. who arrived in Chicago
To-Day. expecting to join his wife here,
was Frustrated by the shock of his
wife's death. At the Salvation
Army headquarters the commander ask
ed for his wife and expressed surprise
that she had not met him.