The Sentinel=record., 1914-05-30
LITTLE NoRDA DEE BARNES LIFE sNUFFED OUT AS SHE IS
 CAUGHT AND DRAGGED.
[. J. HORNER DROVE THE CAR
Most Distressing Circumstances Sur round the.-Tragedy and Two Homes Are Stricken With Grief over Very
 Unfortunate First Toll of Death.

Norda Dee Barnes. the little nine year-old daughter of MT. and Mrs G. Lee Barnes was ran over and killed by an automobile yesterday afternoon as she was crossing the south end of Malvern avenue.
 Clarence J. Horner, driving his five passenger car, in which were seated his wife and little child, had just turned at the end of the paving on this avenue and was starting back for the city, when stepping out from behind a wagon, came the little Barnes child. Every emergency was used to prevent striking the child but she was caught under the front wheels and knocked down, and then scotched and dragged by the rear wheels until by the time the auto mobile was brought to a stop her skull had been fractured and crushed past the hope of anything being done in her behalf.
 Almost orazed with grief over the situation, Mir Horner aided others who had hurried to the scene in getting the inanimate little form from under the car, and then he hur- Iieg to a telephone. where he sum-
 ed with all haste Drs. J. P. Ran
 bh and NJ. V. Laws.
 E3y the time the physicians reached Yhe scene in autos 1t was apparent : that no human agency could help the little child Drs. Randolph and Laws viewed the gaping wounds in the skull. and saw that the child was all but dead.
 Friends had hurried Mrs. Horner and her child into another ear and sent them away from the scene, and by this time Clarence Horner, realiz- ing that the accident had been all but fatal, if not so. became frantic with grief The physicians turned their attention to him. and took him home. where he was inconsolable.
 out at the home of the little child while these actions were taking place, the father, mother and the little seven-year-old child, the re- maining members of the family. were seated at their evening meal. Little Dee Barnes had gone to the home of an amt on Crescent avenue and they had not expected her.
 ID. A. Ruffin, who resides neighbor to the Barnes family, and just across the street in the suburban district known as "Tin Can IIill,' had just arrived home He had passed just as the accident had taken place. He did not see the child struck by the car. but his attention was called by the screams, and in moment he was there with strong arms to try to rescue her. It was he who helped drag the dust and blood covered lit tie form from under the wheels and after he performed that help, he went on home.
 Just before he entered his home across the street from the Barnes home he related the incident. He had not recognized the little girl He had not even thought of the victim being the Barnes child. But the mother and father, as the story was told. had a presentment that it was their child, and they started at once for the scene. Soon their fears were Confirmed, their hopes banished.
 1t was indeed sorrowful scene at the home as the ambulance drew up with the little child. The mother sat in the yard frantic with grief. Two months before her heart had been torn through the loss of a little girl 2 years and months old. She slad not recovered from that suffering sufficiently to stand the shock of the loss of this eldest little girl who but short while before had left the home in full strength and complete < in humble happiness.
 The yard filled with neighbors come to offer consolation, but theirs was nothing oonsc,lng. Hardly would they enter the yard than they would themselves be overcome with the grief of the occasion. The mother was unable to enter the house to sec the little form that had been taken in corpse the home she had such 8