The Washington times., 1908-06-07
NINTH VICTIM DIES
RESULT Of WRECK
Harry Jacobs Succumbs to
Injuries Following Day of
Sorrow in Annapolis.
CORONER TO START
INQUIRY TOMORROW
Violation of Orders Cause of Dis
aster, Says Official of
Company.

ANNAPOLIS, Nd, June g.
Through the awe-stricken hundreds
lining the streets Of Annapolis eight
funeral professions, one by one,
wended their way yesterday after
noon and last night. Each cortege,
in silent testimony of the death
dealing effectiveness of the head-on.
collision between two electric cars
Of the Washington, Baltimore and
Annapolis railway, at Camp Parole
/ Friday night, was headed by the
mangled body OF some unfortunate
! passenger.
In the hospitals and homes Of An
napois a score more lay injured,
and at 1918 o'clock last night, as q
/ fateful climax TO a day of sorrow, .
| came the announcement that Harry
Jacobs, the young clerk, Of Balti-
more, who had fingered unconscious F
all day. had at last succumbed 10 .
/ his injuries, making the ninth vic
tim Of the wreck The body Of
Jacobs will be sent home this morn
ing.
Inquiry Begins Tomorrow.
| Coroner John n. Davis, assisted BY .
| Nicholas Green. States attorney. viii .
begin an investigation OF the catas-
trophe tomorrow morning at IL O'Clock +
| That the cars crashed together on the (
sharp curve Of the single track Just .
| above Camp Parole. through the negli- +
gence Of one or the other Of the two
crews, now seems indisputabie Vice
President Shannahan issued o state (
ment last night in which he says the
accident was due to a plain violation
OF written orders. although not stat
ing which crew was at fault
Secretary Charles F. GIadfelter, treas
urer Of the company. called upon the
coroner and States attorney yesterday
and promised that the company would
do everything in its power 10 assist in
making the investigation searching
Day Of Sorrow.
Il was a day Of mourning for An
napolis. the little town which expected
instead TO be IN gala attire following
the annual commencement exercises Of
us most noted institution. the Naval
Academy. The fact that a number OF
the victims of the wreck were en- route
. 10 Annapolis 10 attend the annual hop
lent an additional element OF pathos To
the fruits OF what Inight have been
an evening Of pleasure
In the presence Of death. middies and
! their sweethearts talked IN hushed
tones Of the towns most awful tragedy,
rath.r than Of graduation and u bril-
liant ball
The day was replete with pathetic in
cidents One OF the saddest Of these
was the scene attendant upon the iden-
: tidcati0n Of q handsome young woman,
who, attired IN evening dress and chat
, ting happily with her companion. was
killed so suddenly that the smile never
left her lips. For nearly a day she lay
the single UnknOwn-not q clue being
found 10 her identity save the initials
, M F. c." upon her clothing
j Body Identified.
Shortly after noon friends of George
". Green. it,. of Washington viewed
z the body and pronounced it Mr.. Green's
j. : young wife, and the families were mott
r. fed. \ few moments later George and
Samuel Rawlings, brothers, OF Annapo-
y lis, called at the undertaking establish
2 ment and with tears IN their eyes iden-
tilted the same corpse as being that Of
D their niece. Miss Margaret Rawlings,
| 81 1896 Sixth street Washington.
0 There can be no mistake, it is none
other than Margaret" they replied
when informed that the body pre-
viousIy had been identified as that OF
Mrs. George W. Green.
} A few moments later Mrs, Samuel
Rawlings, an aunt; Mrs. Mary Basil.
a cousin, and a former cOlOred servant
I IN the Rawlings home at Annapolis,
called and tearfully confirmed the state
ment of the men that the body was none
other than Miss Rawlings Earlier in
the day. they said, Midshipman James
e Garfield Stevens. who had extended an
r invitation to Miss Rawlings to attend
!. tho hop. had seen the body and .identi-
s fed II as his friend The same was
= true Of Jack Stfnchconb, a friend OF
y both the Washington and Annapolis
T branches Of the Rawlings family.
Reaffrm Identification.
In the meantime DR.. Carl c. Corley
e of Washington and DR. Motter OF the
l. health department Of that city. friends
= who had identified Green's body and
S later that Of his wife, returned and
= reiterated their former statement that
To-, Tie young woman was most assursdly
/, Mrs. Green, that the couple had been
+ married four years and that before
I, her marriage she had been a Miss
.. Chambers of Philadelphia and could not
be Miss Rawlings, regardless Of the
fact that she had intended arriving in
l. Annapolis on this car
r The members Of the Rawlings family
s remained obdurate, insisting that the
z dead girl was their Washington rela-
r tive and intimating that thew would not
= consent 10 the removal OF her body as