Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-11-05
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America of the Salvation Army,
wife of Commander Booth Tucker
and second daughter of William
Booth, founder of the army, was
killed in the wreck Of the eastbound
California train No. 2, near Dean
Lake, Mo-, So 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 at Ami'y, Col, was fatally III
jured. Twenty-seven persons were
more or less seriously. The dead
and injured were taken to Fort Mad
ison, Ia.
Mrs. Booth-Tucker was rendered
unconscious and died within half an
hour after being injured. Her skull
was fractured and she was injured
internally.
Mrs. Booth-Tucker was on her
way from a visit to the Colony at
Amity, Col, 70 Chicago, where she
was to have met her husband to-
day.
The wrecked train left Kansas
City last night. Only the three last
cars, two Pulimans and a diner were
wrecked. The Pullmans were COM
pleiely demolished 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 consulta-
ton. Two of the Pullmans struck a
steel water tank with such force as
to move it five feet from its founda-
ton and when the crew reached the
scene both Mrs. Booth Tucker and
Colonel Holland were found uncon-
scious. They, with the other in
Jured, We're, after much delay, taken
to the depot platform a few blocks
distant where everything possible
was done for them. Neither regain
ed consciousness and within 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 Kansas City ON the California
train which was wrecked yesterday
evening, and did not intend coming
here until this morning. She found
she could make a brief trip up town
between trains, however, and later
decided to continue east on the same
train.
Mrs. Booth-Tucker, who was Miss
Emma Booth, married Frederick
Tucker in 1888. He assumed her
name as part Of his own. He was
born in Indiana and lived there sew
eral years after the marriage. He
was commissioner of the army in
Indiana. Mrs. Booth-Tucker and
her husband were appointed to COM
1aand thearmyin America in March, |
1896, succeeding Eva Booth, who!
had supplanted her brother, Balling-
ton 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., Oct. 2O.-James
Hurley, general superintendent of
the Western grand division of the
Santa Fe, said to-day in connection
with the wreck at Deans Lake:
tsThe brake rod of the sleeper
dropped down and caught on the
switch, this quickly derailed this car,
another sleeper, the dining car and
Pullman following"
Chicago, Oct. 29.-Commander
Booth-Tucker, who arrived in Chi
cago 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 asked for his wife and
expressed surprise that she had not
met him. AS gently as he could,
Colonel Sowton, in charge of the
Chicago station, said:
"Commander, your wife is dead.