Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-26
DEATH FOLLOWS REINDEER
Nearly Score Killed and Many
injured, is Toll Exscted.
LOADED TROLLEY CAR WRECKED
Three Women Lose Lives and Score
OF Persons Arc Iniured when
Crowd OF Church GOera
suffers Accident.


TORONTO. Ont. Dec. 25.--Three women |
were killed and a score Of persons in
Jured. some Of them mortally, when a
runaway trolley car in King street |
crowded TO its capacity with church |
going passengers dashed down steep |
grade last night ran into an open switch |
and crashed over on its side.
One OF the women killed was Mrs |
ALFRED =. c. Deacon, the wife OF an
engineer commander in the British navy. |
When the crash came the panic stricken |
passengers piled in heaps amid litter
of broken glass and splintered wood. |
struggling desperately for egress. As
the car capsized some Of the passengers |
were hurled through windows and pinned |
under the car. one OF these being Mrs |
Deacon. Her husband was only slight
iy injured
William J. Moore. the motorfnan, who |
lost control Of the car on, the slippery |
rails. was held by the police. pending the
fixing OF the responsibility for the ac-
cident. lie escaped injury.
Train strikes Boulder.
BRISTOL. Tenn. Dec. 2.-Three train
mon were killed and a fourth probably |
fatally injured early today when a
double-header freight train on the Vir- |
ginia & Southwestern railway ran into
a boulder which fell on the track in
the natural tunnel, forty miles west Of
Bristol The men killed were Engineer |
w. S. Adams. Fireman Lee Glover and |
Brakeman Clinton Sprolled and the in |
jured man Brakeman s. S. Carr1ger.
Trains Collide.
CARBoNDALB. H.. Dec. 2.-Two |
trainynen were killed and three injured |
IN a collision OF Illinois Central freight |
trains between Grantsburg and Simpson
this morning b. Young, fireman, and
Henry Sellers, engineer. were killed and
Grover Ogden, brakeman; Frank |
Bearden. fireman, and Conductor McNier |
were injured severely.
Caught Beneath Girder.
CAMDEN. N, J. Dec. 2-Two men |
were killed and six others were seriously |
injured while placing a girder across
Cooper Creek on the Medford branch of |
the West Jersey and Seashore railroad |
today near Haddonfield, N. J. The men |
were swinging the girder on the main |
span on the bridge when they lost con-
troll OF t. william suders, aged 81, and |
william Carey, aged Is, were caught |
beneath the girder and drowned.
shot by wife.
SANDWICH, ILL.,. Dec. 25.-Before q |
Christmas tree which he was about 10 |
decorate. Fred Feazel, manager OF a dry |
goods store here, was killed today by his |
wife, who then committed suicide. She |
had shown tendencies 20 mental aberra- |
ton since the birth OF baby six months |
ago
Feazei had finished late breakfast,
had kissed the baby as IL lay in a cart
beside the table, and had gone Into an
adjoining room to decorate n small |
Christmas tree. His wife arranged the
baby comfortably. placed some play |
things within its reach, then shot her |
husband twice in the back.
BOY killed by Auto.
TERRE HAuTB, Dec. 2s.--sent on an
errand by his mother so that she could |
prepare a Christmas surprise for him. |
Ralph Ladd. aged 7. was killed by an
automobile here today.
Negro shoots white Man.
ST. CHARLES. Mo-. Dec. @.-JulIan
washington. a negro, on his way 20
a church celebration at oFalion, last
nigit stabbed Clay Schultz, white man,
10 death when Schultz wrestled with him
following Washington's refusal to sing
crowd permitted Washington 20 go 10
his home. where he was arrested today.
lie Insisted no acted In seif-defense as
Schultz was the larger man and threat
ened TO injure him.
Fatally wounded.
BOONE. Ia, Dec. 25.--Isaac Robson
was fatally wounded early today by Con-
rad Klute at Logansport. The men quar-
relied over Mrs. Klute. II Is said.
Dies OF Wound.
XicNfA. o., Dec. 3.-St. Clair Gentry,
aged - stepson OF John Il. stevenson,
former county commissioner, died here
early today from the effect OF gunshot
wounds inflicted by his uncle, Robert
Irwin, gun inspector in the government
navy yards at Philadelphia. last night.
Search. for Irwin. who is stin at large.
continues
MOtOrman stricken.
LOUISVILLE. KY. Dec. 2S.-Passen-
gers on q fast travelling Broadway car
were thrown I'm a panic late this after
noon when Motorman Robert Blandorf
was stricken with apoplexy and sank
20 the floor. losing hold OF the controller
lever.
Blsnford was carried TO the office of
nearby physician. who said he would
recover.
Boys Stabbed,
lMPORIA. Kan. Dec 5.-Dnring a
Christmas entertainment at a country
school house near here, Ernest Van
Sickle and Wilbur Jones were stabbed
and dangerously injured BY Arthur and
Walter Mounkes All are under % years
Of age.
WOMAN TAKES HER OWN LIFE