Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-21
WALSH AUTO TRAGEDY
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE FATAL
ACCIDENT AT NEWPORT.

FURTHER DETAILS OF THE FATAL
ACCIDENT AT NEWPORT.
In the white and gold reception room In
Beaulieu, the summer home Of the Washes,
adjoining the grand drawing room, where
shortly a dance had been planned for the
daughter of the house. rested yesterday a
mahogany casket, with ornate silver ham
dies and banked about by the choicest
flowers. In this casket Is the body OF Vim
son Walsh, son Of the millionaire. who was
instantly killed Saturday afternoon in an
automobile accident, in which four others
were injured. Walsh, who was only eigh-
teen. was being prepared by private tutor
tie enter Phillips-Andover Academy. His life
was snuffed out in a twinkling when his
powerful Panhard exploded tire and then
jumped in the air to careen against the
timbers Of a bridge at the foot OF steep
incline, and turn turtle over the railing
into the creek ten feet below.
All flushed in Sympathy.
The fact that he had brought death upon
himself and injury to others by his own
reckless speed, that he had been fined Tor
overspeeding, and that he again risked ar
rest in the awful race that ended so fatally
all this is hushed now in the sympthy
that fills all hearts over the tragedy that
has overtaken the Walsh family.
In another room in the mansion lies Miss
Evelyn Walsh, sister of the dead youth,
helpless with a fractured leg. unconscious
of the fate that has overtaken her idolized
brother. She has not been told of his
death. She still supposes he is in the hos
pital, and to all who entered her room to-
day she said anxiously:
How is Vinson? Oh, tell me If he is
much hurt?
And to these inquiries relatives, friends
who called to see her. and servants an
swered that he was doing WELL
They feared the shock to this delicate
girl of telling her that the brother she had
loved so fondly from his babyhood had
passed from her forever
To the bereaved family is still reserved
the task of breaking the heart-rending
news to her.
Many Sympathetic Messages.
The death of young Walsh has stirred the
entire social colony to grief and sympathy
for the bereaved family
kilograms and letters of sympathy have
poured in from every one Hundreds of tele-l
grams from all parts of the country have
also been received, as well as cablegrams
from across the Atlantic.
Rich and poor went to Beaulieu today TO
offer sympathy and assistance. Among
the automobile party, who escaped with
only a few scratches.
He placed wreath of white roses on the
bier of his dead friend and wept bitterly
as he gazed at the peaceful face in the
casket, marred only by dark mark on the
temple for a fractured skull and hemor-
rhage of the brain caused the death of
Vinson Walsh
Many of the young people of the exclusive
set who had known Miss Evelyn Walsh
only slightly called at Beaulieu today and
were admitted to her room. They brought
beautiful bouquets of flowers, and the room
in the afternoon looked like a rose bower,
until DR.. Marcus Wheatland, the noted sur
geon, who took an X-ray photograph of
Miss Walsh's injured limb. ordered some of
the flowers removed He will make an ad-
ditional S-ray examination today.
Polite, Even in Agony
The bravery of Miss Walsh and her self
possession after the accident are spoken of
in the highest praise by Superintendent of
Police Denman and others who helped to
rescue the party from under the upturned
auto
On the way home in the ambulance the
girl turned several times to the superin-
tendent and said
Please pardon me il I am not polite for
1 am suffering and cannot realize all may
say"
Then she asked, as she has at intervals
that followed, for her brother AS they
were carrying her into the Walsh home she
said: Il thank you all for your kindness"
In another room in Beaulieu today Mr.
walsh watches by the bedside of his wife,
who is still under the opiate that was given
her Saturday night when the body of her
son was brought home from the hospital.
Father Plunged in Grief.
Mr.. Walsh is in an agony of grief. He
had been on the point of having a talk with
his son regarding the lessening of speed In
his auto rides when this tragedy made it
forever too late. He is now overcome with
remorse that he did not speak sooner
Mrs. Walsh. on recovering consciousness
yesterday, went at once to the bedside of
her daughter and insisted on remaining
with her up to last night
Mr.. Walsh, left to himself went TO the
rose-decked casket wherein Law the BODY OF
his beloved boy, and wept in unrestrained
grlef over the shattering of his hopes for
this son. who was to be the comfort and
prop of his old age.
NOT carriage nor an automobile passed
through the gates of Beaulieu yesterday,
though hundreds stopped outside the iron
pillared entrance
P. F. Collier and other close friends Of
the family remained at Beaulieu Saturday
night. Trained nurses and physicians are
in attendance upon Miss Walsh. while a
close watch is kept upon Mr.. and Mrs.
" Aisii iVi lcdI tidl liley VIII collapse
der the great grief they are suffering
The Injured.
The big auto recovered and taken back
to the garage, presented a sad spectacle
The front wheels We're severed the front
crushed in and the lamps and brasses
smashed. A wooden guard rail on the
bridge had passed entirely through the ma
chine, and it is supposed that this rail hit
young Mr.. Walsh on the head and caused
his death.
Mrs. James L. Kernochan Ii was found
sustained only few slight bruises She is
recovering at the cottage of her mother-in-
law, Mrs. James p. Kernochan, where
many floral tributes We're left yesterday
Harry Oelrichs is still in the care Of a
physician in the Oerichs cottage. which
looks not unlike a miniature hospital
He has recovered from his hysterical con-
dition and is said TO be doing well
That Mrs. Kernochan, young Pell and
Oelrichs should have escaped with such
comparatively slight injuries. considering
the terrific speed with which the auto
dashed into the bridge and capsized into
the creek below, is regarded as almost mir
aculous Mrs. Kernochan sat on the front
seat and Vinson Walsh was killed at her
side.