The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-18
3 DIE AT A GRADE CROSSING
Santa Fe Passenger Train Crashes
Into Automobile Near lola Within
View of Thousands.

The inquest over the bodies of w.
G. Miller, his wife, Sadie V. Miller,
and their son, Grant Miller, who were
| killed recently when a Santa Fe pas
| senger train crashed into their motor
car on a grade crossing near lola, the
next morning before ]. c. Walker,
coroner. Numerous witnesses, includ-
ing H. c. Beaumont, engineer, and w.
c. Darlington, fireman, of Kansas
| City, Kas, were examined
AS result of the tragedy agitation
| in favor of the abolition of grade
| crossings has been started here.
The grade crossing should be aboI-
| 1shed," said County Commissioner E.
z. Brigham, and if there is any way
to do it, it will be done in Allen coun-
ty. Had the road where the Miller
family was killed passed underneath
! been no accident"
The tragedy took place in view of
hundreds of visitors who had spent
the day at the Allen county fair in
Riverside Park. The locomotive struck
the motor car almost squareIy in the
| center, smashing it into a mass of
debris and sending the pieces flying
| into the air several hundred feet The
bodies of the Miller family were
hurled about sixty feet A son, Bur
ney Miller, % years old, is the sole
survivor of the family.
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Long Lost Son is Found-Mrs. Min
ME Nelson of Concordia has located
her son, who disappeared with his
father in San Francisco nineteen
years ago. Nelson was years old
when his father left a note for the
mother, telling her to meet him and
the boy at Concordia, where Mrs. Nell
sons mother resides. The father and
son had not since been heard from,
until message was received recent
ly from a San Francisco paper that
he had been found.
Salinas First Preacher Is Dead
Rev. Highland R. Goulden, the first
! Methodist minister to enter the Cen
trail Kansas field, died recently at
Salina from injuries received in a fall
down stairway a few days ago. He
was So years old. DR.. Goulden per-
| formed all the marriage ceremonies
il. Central Kansas for years in the
pioneer days, and performed the mar
rage ceremonies in entire families
down to great-grandchildren He had
been on the superannuated list several
years and made his home at Barnard
He is survived by his widow and four
children.
Celebrate Golden Weddina.-Mr.
and Mrs. NJ. R. Hemphi1l celebrated
recently their fiftieth wedding ami
versary with a family reunion of
their six children and twenty-nine
| grandchildren at their home in East
Olathe
Elect Chancellor Strongly. Frank
Strong, cancellor of Kansas univer-
sity. has been elected to the presi-
dency of the National Association of
State Universities.
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Baker Stores Burned.-Fire recently
destroyed the two general stores at
Baker, and with them the towns en-
tire stock of groceries and dry goods.
The postoffice was in one store All
federal property was saved The
! townspeople now must drive three
miles for provisions
PoIiceman's Wife Routed Burglars.
| When Mrs. E. Patchen, wife of a
Lawrence patrolman, heard burglars
in the cellar of her home she seized
her husbands revolver and wounded
one burglar. The other escaped.
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August Rainfall Short.-Less rain
fall was recorded at Lawrence last
month than in any previous August
since 1909 The total precipitation.
LA inches, was 2.31 inches below the
August normal Mean temperature.
69.7 degrees, was a low record and
SIC degrees below the August nor
NAL The minimum temperature, AS.
was a low record for August.
J. c. Martin of Greeley Dead. C.
Martin, who had lived in Miami coun-
ty all his life. is dead at Greeley. He
4 old