The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-11-08
HORRIFYING RECITAL
AN AUTOMOBILE WRECKED AT
K. S. C. CROSSING.
VlRGILROBY IS KILLED
While His Mother and Brother Are
Seriously Injured-Auto in Charge of
William Lowe = Recl1essness Cause
of This Narrowing Tragedy.

An accident is an unforeseen or an I'm
Iexpected event, mishap beyond the
icontrol of a human being.
Recklessness, which is akin to cussed
ness, is a disregard of danger, the heed
tlessness of life, of personal or property
right. In brief, it is the spirit hell-bent
on running over, of crowding out, OF
suppressing all things animate or other
wise which may be an impediment, or in
the way Of the reckless, in this instance
of one in charge of an automobile.
At the crossing of the Kansas City
Southern, at the intersection of Texas
avenue at West End, at about 80
oclock Monday, there occurred a trag-
edy which is harrowiwng in its every
detail The very thought of its occur
renee, when it could have been avoided,
| is blood curdling
! The horrifying racital in brief is that
Greer Roby of Mira, La, aged 80 years,
Mrs. James Roby, Virgil Roby, aged I2
years, and Alvin Roby, aged 8 years, all
! from Cotton Valley, started for the Fair
grounds from the Phoenix hotel corner
in an auto in charge of William Lowe,
who was taking visitors to the Fair at
stated fare. On approaching the cross
| ing of the Kansas City Southern at high
speed, he was warned by Flagnan Horn
who displayed the red flag, but which
Lowe failed to heed. and still persisting,
Lowe was warned by flag and by the
1agman who yelled at him to stop, but
Lowe did not stop until he and his auto
with the passengers therein were on the
track while a freight train of the Kan
sas City Southern consisting of a string
of cars was backing.
II the face of this extremity, with
death at hand, Lowe stopped suddenly
his auto, from which he jumped and
yelled to the passengers to jump out
but he had scarcely leaped from the
auto, leaving the passengers to their
fate when the auto was crushed by the
freight car of this train and carried a
distance of about seventy-fve feet be
fore the train could be stopped.
However, before the collision, Greer
Roby had seized Alvin Roby and hurled
him from the auto and he reached the
ground with few slight bruises. His
life was saved by the heroisn of the
act of Greer Roby, who could have fol-
lowed Lowe, but he would rather, perish
with those dear to him than to desert
them in their plight
With the debris extricated from the
wreck were Greer Roby, who had sus-
tanned serious injuries, which may prove
fatal; Mrs. Roby, while seriously in
jured, exhibited remarkable fortitude in
this great extremity of the saddest ex-
perience of her life.
How narrowing, sight beyond de
|scription, was the body Of Virgil Roby,
his limbs crushed almost beyond the
semblanee of a human being.
And such was the ending of journey
filed with pleasurahle anticipation by
visitors who had come from their homes
to spend a part of the day at the Fair
grounds.
Lowe was arrested on charge Of
manslaughter and released by Judge
Bell on a bond fixed at only SSno
Lowe naturally dlselaims all respon-
sibility, which he would saddle on Flag
man Horn, but this ernploye Of the rail
road IN his assertion that he did warn
Lowe Of the danger by flag signal and
BY yelling at him, IS sustained by wit
nesses to the horrible occurrence.