The Washington times., 1903-10-29
Placed on Relief Train in
Missouri, Second Acct
dent Occurs as Car
Speeds Toward Marco
line.
Colonel Thomas Holland
Also Hurt in Catastro-
phe Which Plunges the
Christian World in
Gloom.

KANSAS CITY. Mo, Oct. 2S.-Mrs-
Emma Booth-Tucker. consul of the Sal
walton Army in the United States. and
wife of Commander Booth-Tucker. met
death early this morning as the result
of a railroad wreck on the AtchisOn. To-
peka. and Santa Fe Railway. near Dean
Lake. ninety miles east OF here.
Col. Thomas Holland. also of the Sal
vation Army, was hurt seriously. A
score of other persons were injured
several of whom Will die
En- Route to Join Husband.
Mrs. Booth-Tucker had been on a Wis
1t of inspection in California Yester-
day she reached this city. and. with
Colonel Holland. inspected a hotel here
erected by the Salvation Army for work
ingmen. and at O'Clock last night
they started for Chicago. where Mrs
Booth-Tucker was to join her husband.
When near Dean Lake, Mo-. the train
was running at a high speed. probably
fifty miles an hour. when IT plunged
into an open switch. The locomotive
was thrown from the tracks and went
crashing into Z big steel water tank
close BY. The force of the collision was
terrific and in a moment the train of
sleeping cars and day coaches was a
hopeless wreck, the cars piling one on
the other and ripping each to pieces.
Hurled From Berths.
Sleeping passengers were huNed from
their herths and pinned under the wreck
agge. many being grievously wounded
Among the latter were Mrs. Booth
Tucker and Colonel Holland. The men
passengers. who had not been injured.
started in at once to save their unfor-
tunate feilow-travelers. and among the
first they took out was Mrs Booth
Tucker. She was unconscious and from
her appearance seriously injured. She
had been crushed in her berth
Mrs Booth-Tucker, after a surgeon
had done what he could at the scene
OF the wreck. was placed aboard re-
lief train. which started at top speed
for Marceline. This train had gone but
q few miles when a truck slipped from
one OF the cars and a second wreck was
only averted by the prompt action Of
the engineer. who put on the air brakes.
which held the train. The injured pas
sengers received severe jolt, and this
probably FASTENED the death OF Mrs.
Booth-Tucker.
Died on Relief Train.
For several hours the relief train was
stailed while the trainmen worked like
Trojans 70 get the wrecked truck back
on the track. II was n sad and trying
time for the little band Of rescuers as
the trainmen worked. The cries and
means OF the injured passengers
aboard could be plainly heard, and men
grltted their teeth and worked with a
vim TO get the train started
The train had just pulled into Mar
csIine station when Mrs. Booth-Tucker
died.
Daughter Of General Booth.
Mrs Booth Tucker was born in 1864
and was a daughter OF General Booth
head OF the Salvation Army. Her career
as a Christian worker started in heI
girIhood At the age OF eleven she de-
termined to devote her life TO the up
lifting OF mankind. and when sixteen
was teaching the poor girls OF the Lon
don missions how TO read anC write
few years later she was given com
pIete charge Of the training Of women
cadets In the army home in London, and
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