The Missouri herald., 1922-09-08
A WEEK AFTER.

I The terrible wreck of the Frisco
passenger train at Star landing last
| Friday morning 76 miles south o"
ST. Louis. was told in this paper last
| week and, as was more fully tolf iii
| the daily papers, took two lives and
injured mere or less seriously over
half hundred.
One of the lives lost was that of
Shamel Yearta of Hayti, son of Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Yearta; the other was
| that of John T. Warmath of Gibson
| Tenn, uncle of James T. Jackson OF
this city. So, in fatalities, Hayti in
terest was fatefully kindred. While
the Yearta funeral was being held
here Sunday afternoon, another
funeral, OF the other victim, was
being held in Tennessee, not mort
than a hundred miles away. Re.
sides the two fatalities several from
different parts of Pemiscot county
were injured, namely: Ralph McEl-
vain, Caruthersville; Julius Sissali,
Roy Price, William Steele, Thomas
/, Brooks and his son, Gerald
Brooks, all of Steele. None OF tht
injuries are thought to be serious,
it is said.
Thomas l. Brooks and his son are
we'll known citizens of the south end
Of the county, having recently ra-
turned there after several year.
spent at Redlands, California. The,
were returning from St. Louis where
they had been to purchase an open
ing stock of goods for a store they
expect to shortly open at Steele
Shamel Yearta, the unforturrtc
youth who lost his life, as was told
in these columns last week, was re-
| turning from visit to his mother
who for some time has been in Il
| hospital at Pennington. Skamel
was very devoted to his parents anr
| to his grandmother, Mrs. Shouse,
with whom the Yeartas made thei2
home. Once week he wrote to his
mother at the hospital, and it was
on his return from a visit to her
before entering school that he met
his death on the ill-fated train.
Shamel was born December l.
! 1906, and while almost man in
size, was mere boy in age.
The exact manner of Shamel's
death has not been determined, but
his head was so badly crushed, as
we'll as his body, it is almost certain
that he was killed instantly and
was insensible to the dreadful cas-
uality that wrought such terrible
havoc.
William Yearta, the boys father,
went to ST. Louis last Saturday and
returned here with the body for
burial, arriving early Sunday morn
ing
The funeral was held at the fam
lily residence at 8 o'clock Sunday at
ternoon being conducted by Rev,
A. b. Culbertson, pastor of the Meth
odist church, of which Shamel was
a member.
Rev. Culbertson made a short but
impressive address, after which
long line of sympathetic friends fol-
lowed the body to Woodlawn GEM
etery where interment was made.
The sympathy of the entire COM
munity was shown by the large
crowd that attended the funeral, the
largest, perhaps, that ever attended
funeral in Hayti before.
There were many moist eyes.
Sympathy was shown in the soft
ened melody Of the songs, the plaint-
iyeness of the prayers, and in the
earnest tones of the preacher as he
read from the book:
Man passes as the shadow"
| No death has caused sadder re-
gret to this community; no suffering
of bereaved ones has received deep
er sympathy.
The ways of fate are strange, and
the sudden taking away of the life
of this young man is hard to under
stand. But
| 'Lengthened breath
Is not the sweetest gift God sends his
| friend
And that sometimes the sable pail of
conceals the. fairest bloom His love
| can send.
II we could push ajar the gates of
life
And stand within and all Gods work.
| ings see