The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-28

Reposing comfortably in her bed in room on the ground floor of the Horne homestead in Carlton, on the night of September 1. lay Mrs Nelson. Just out side her door burned an oil lamp. Shori- ly after ? o'clock in the morning Mrs x olson was aroused by the entrance of her daughter. Grace, and the daugh- ter's friend. May Pitt. Opening her eyes, Mrs. Nelson saw the two girls standing at her door, and her daughter said: We have come, mother. We had lots of fun. You ought to have heard May sing
 T am so glad replied Mrs. Nelson, that you are home in such good sea son."
 Good night
 Good night"
 Mrs. Nelson dropped off to sleep. Hardly had she closed her eyes when the telephone bell rang violently. Jumping up. she was. surprised to find i that the light which had been burning a moment before, when she had spoken | to her daughter, was out. Hurriedly ! she groped along by the wall to the 1 telephone, which stood at the farther 1 side of the room, and as she took the receiver from it's hook. her mother, Louisa Horne, attracted by the ringing
 of the bell, came into the room.
 The message that Mrs Nelson re- ceived was short and awful. It was
 that there had been a railroad accident,
 and that her daughter had been badly injured. And even as she heard this
 message she turned to her mother with the exclamation: ''Why, thought the girls just came iI1!'
 Hastily Mrs. Nelson went to the scene of the wreck of the ill-fated special car which had jumped the track while trav-
 cling at terrific speed near the Ham
 merrock station, on the electric car 1 line between Worcester and South
 bridge. When the distracted mother reached the scene of the accident she found that her daughter was dead. In
 fact, she must have died instantly. | The car left Charlton about o'clock,
 bearing some twenty-five people among
 them Miss Nelson and Miss Pitt, who
 had gone to Charlton to attend dance
 at Dexter Memorial hall, which closed 1 the celebration of old home week. The car, in charge of skilled employees of
 the street railway company, bowled
 along at a good rate of speed, and the people aboard it were laughing and chatting.
 Soon Charlton was left behind, and
 the car took the grade at Hammerrock
 station, two miles away, with perfect ease, and started down the other side. 1 The speed seemed rather fast, and one or two of the passengers spoke of it. Just as the foot of the grade was reached some of the party declared that | they felt jar, as though the motor- man had applied his brake to make the curve at the foot of the incline. Of a sudden, the lights went out, the car ] shivered from front to rear, and with a crash jumped from the rails dashfng into two big poles at the side of the 1 track. So great was it's momentum 1 that even these poles failed to bring it to 8 standstill, and after dumping along for some few feet 1t turned complete somersault and landed on its side. Under the car, pinned down by heavy trucks, lay the body of Miss Nelson, 1 horribly mutilated. It was decided that l she must have met her death by being 1 thrown through one of the forward windows with terrific force out on to a bed of rocks.
 Miss Pitt did not die till the next day. Seated short distance from her friend in the forward part of the car, she was, curiously, not thrown out, but was thrown against the side with great force, and sustained a fractured skull
 Even when she saw the mutilated form of her daughter, Mrs. Nelson did not believe that she was dead, and kept murmuring, Why, spoke to her; I saw her not an hour ago." But the 1 evidence of death was irrefutable, and she was forced to believe.
 Mrs. Nelson is not spiritualist; in- | deed, she has been brought up In the Methodist church. She is about 40 years old, is perfectly we'll and strong, and has borne three children. Mrs. Horne, her mother, is hale and hearty, though advanced in years. Between Mrs. Nelson and her daughter Grace there had always been the warmest af- lection and confidence.
 The greater part of the time since she
 was married Mrs Nelson has lived in Springfield, though she has made ire 1 uCet visits to her mother at the old homestead. Three years ago Mr. Nell son, who was an engineer on the Bos- ton and Albany railroad, was stricken with paralysis and died, and a curious l coincidence is the fact that his death, 1 like that of his daughter, occurred dur ing the Charlton old home week re- union.
 In her account of the apparition Mrs. Nelson is very positive. She says:
 'Why, saw the girls so plainly. They stood right there on the rug between the two doors. was glad to see them, for had not expected them for about an hour. The first thing Grace said to me was, We have come, mother and them she went in to say that they had had lots of fun and that I ought to have heard May sing.
 1T remember being rather surprised at the latter remark, for I did not know
 that Miss Pitt sang, but I suppose I
 was too sleepy to pay much attention | to it.
 Another thing that I remember, which struck me at the time as being queer, was the fact that, considering
 where they stood, they must have en-
 tered the room, which was our dining | roorO from the kitchen whareas tha