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1 WHOLE COUNTRY MOURNS THE UNTIMELY’ FATE OF MRS. EMMA BOOTH-TUCKER Mrs. Emma Booth-Tucker, wife of Commander Booth-Tucker, was killed la the wreck of the east-bound Santa Fe train, No. 2, near Dean Lake, Mo., eighty-five miles east of Kansas City, on the night of Oct. 29. Mrs. Booth-Tucker was rendered un conscious and died within half an hour after being injured. Her skull was fractured and she was injured Internally. Mrs. Booth-Tucker wa>- on her way from g visit to the colony at Amity to Chicago, where she expected to meet her husband. The wrecked train ran into an open swiich just outside of Dean Lake. The three last cars, two Pullmans and a diner, were wrecked. In the forward Pullman Mrs. Booth-Tucker and Col. Holland, who were the sole occupants of the car, had just gone to the for ward end for a consultation. Two of the Pullmans struck a steel water tank with such force as to move it five feet from Its foundation and when the train crew reached the scene both Mrs. Booth Tucker and Col. Holland were unconscious. The Sto-y of the Accident. Major Ourand, who held Mrs. Booth Tucker's hand when she died, gave the full pariic-Iars of the wreck: He said: “Our train was made up of an en gine, baggage car, smoking car, day coach, tourist sleeper aud two Pull mans. “Gen. Harries ar.d I wcr» in the for ward Pullman, the one next to the tourist-sleeper, when Miss Dammes, Mrs. Booth-Tucker's secretary, came in. “With her was Col. Holland of the Salvation Army. “They told the porter that Mrs. Booth-Tucker wanted a berth In the Pullman. She said that she had in tended to stay in Kansas City another clay, but that her anxiety to see her husband and her children again made her leave Kansas City a day before she had intended. "The Pullman porter said that he had only one berth left, and that Mrs. Booth-Tucker and Miss Dammes should have that. “He made up the berth and went hack to tell Mrs. Booth-Tucker it was ready for her. He found her talking about Salvation Army affairs with Col. Holland. She said she would come soon. "He went back a couple of minutes later and told her again. "This time she started up to come to the Pullman. "Just then came the smash. "One of the wheels of the Pullman had left the track. I understand that It opened a switch and that this de railed the tourist sleeper. “All I know is that when I strug gled to my feet the tourist sleeper had left the track, and as we were going at top speed, had knocked the steel water tank, into which it had crashed, live feet out of the way. “The train stopped with a jar that shook us all. We all ran back to the tourist sleeper. It had been smashed almost to bits. “We heard women moaning. We got axes, and dug Mrs. Booth-Tucker out of the wreckage. With her we took out the unconscious body of a Woman who was taking her dead hus band home to be burled. Another woman, a Mrs. Kelsey of New York, ewe also took out. A man who had tfallen upon her kicked her in the chest in trying to free himself. “Mrs. Booth-Tucker was uncon scious. So was Col. Holland. “We carried them ihtir the small waiting room In the little station at Dean, which was only a few yards away. "A physician was on the train. Ho went to Mrs. Booth-Tucker's assist ance. “Miss Dammes asked: “ ‘Is there any hope, doctor?’ "The doctor, who had found that Mrs. Booth-Tucker's skull hart been fractured and that she had sustained internal injuries, replied that there was none. “I took Mrs. Booth-Tucker’s hand and held it while the doctor worked over her. “Once I tried to draw it away. She restrained me. Across the casket fell the folds of a Salvation army flag on which rested the dead woman's Bible given her by her mother fifteen years ago, and borne throughout her work in India and other parts of the world. After the services the body was put on board a train which left for New York at once. Memorial services The Picture at the Top is of the Late Mrs. Booth-Tucker. Her Husband la Pictured Directly Below. T o the Right Is Shown a Diagram of the Accident, While to 11 e Left the Commander and His Wife Are Sun in Consultation. JS^---> . &xfcrJT>/i szr uyvrcTjv 7r/z^ss/ ikbs <svjyr& - rc_J <-* xr/rxonr s//x>re'j9rzr j&svyr* os sjrsrcsf PfW.txjt cvwjyc»cr<?/Vr &XOjrf,£>fjBAZZ7/fG ««* Sjyz> crArcrsj-sr& f*xs-cJi: “We told Mrs. Booth-Tucker that she must die. I don’t know whether she understood us. She gasped out a few words of prayer. “Miss Dammes, who remained calm through all the excitement, prayed over her dying friend. "Two hours after the accident Mrs. Booth Tucker died, still holding my hand." Impressive Ceremonies at Chicago. Before a canvas bearing In large let ters the words. “Faithful Unto Death,” in Princess rink, the body of Mrs. Emma Booth-Tucker rested while hundreds of her Salvation army fol lowers and friends, grief-stricken and weeping, passed by the coffin in silent tribute to her memory. Three thou sand persons who had known the dead woman as fellow worker or as friend passed before the bier to pay their last tribute of respect and love. Two cadets of the army’s training school stood at either end of the catafalque and overhead swung a banner in scribed with the words: "Faithful unto death.” The silver plate on the coffin bore the words: “Born Jan. 8, I860. Consul Emma Booth-Tucker. Promoted to glory Oct. 28, 1903.” were held In New York. It has not been decided whether burial will tako place there or in Ixmdon. TRIBUTES FROM THE PRESS. New York Herald and Chicago Trib une Eulor.izes Dead Leader. The New York Herald says: “The untimely death of Mrs. Booth Tucker, under circumstances most painful and distressing, removes one of the strongest and gentlest figures in the world of militant philanthropy. “As the daughter of the founder and commander of the Salvation army, she was actively and earnestly identified with its evangelistic and philanthropic work in this and other lands. She shared the zeal and en thusiasm of Gen. Booth, and dedicated the energies of her life and the splen did powers of her eloquent and per suasive oratory to the work of amel iorating the condition of the sub merged classes. Her gentle pleadings were a benediction to the outcast and a ray of hope for the fallen. To the Inmates of prisons everywhere her frequent visits brought messages of hope and cheer. They hailed her as a good^angel, and listened attentively I *.o her simple and earnest plea for I the- better way.’ "To her work for the army she brought the fruits of the ripest ex perience and training gained from the work among the slums of London and from her connection with the inter national training homes in that city. In the United States she was given full and equal authority with her hus band, Commander Booth-Tucker, in directing the affairs of the army. “To those who believe that the work of the Salvation army is the nearest approach to a practical appli cation of the teachings of Christian ity the death of this admirable wom an will be in the nature of a personal loss, while all Christendom will mourn her demise with a common sorrow’.” The Chicago Tribune prints the fol lowing: “The tragic death of Mrs. Emma Booth-Tucker will be deplored not only by the Salvation army, of which she was ‘consul’ in the United States, but by the public in general, which sympathizes with the work for hu manity in which she, in association with her husband, Commander Booth Tucker, had been so long and con spicuously engaged. It adds to the pathos of the sad event that her hus band, who arrived in th^ city yester day morning from New York, was ex pecting to meet her on her return from a visit to the Salvation army col ony at Amity, Colo. Instead of that he was met with the news «>f her sud den death. The Salvation army is too effective and practical a force for good and for the uplifting of humanity to let such an event pass only as an item of news. In that work Mrs. Booth-Tucker had been conspicuous and her husband, an able, judicious, tiod-fearing and humanity loving worker, has been greatly aided by her counsel, good judgment, untiring in dustry and sympathy with the unfor tunate. In this bereavement, which has taken from him not only an effi cient helper and co-operator in the work of philanthropy but a loving and devoted wife, he will have the sym pathy of the whole community." Emma Booth-Tucker. Surely, when a good woman dies. The world has lost a precious thing And this the reason for the sighs That come from commoner and king The whisper goes by mystic ways To where the pagans, tremulous And grieving, this one sentence raise: “She thought of us.” "Give her the fruitage of her hands: Let her works praise her in th* gates”— And men in all the distant lands Frame that phrase which commlser* ates. From mart and mine and field and slum. From Brahmin, Slav aiul Turk and Ituss— In every tongue the tributes come: "She thought of us." ‘‘Her hands were stretched out to the poor; She sought the needy;" in her ways She gave them courage tr> endure. And it is vowed: "She shall have praise.” Her worth is more than rubles are— But all the praise is spoken thus From grieving one near and afar: "She thought of us.” Surely, when a good woman dies, The world has lost a precious thing. And words of heavy sorrow rise From iips of commoner and king. Far. better than the wreath of bay— A tribute rare and glorious Is when the little children say: "She thought of us." —\V. D. N. in Chicago Tribune. Ibsen’s College Record. Someone in Scandinavia has un earthed the report of the examlnern on Dr. Ibsen’s papers at his examina tion for the degree of bachelor. It runs as follows: “Norwegian, good; Latin prose, good; 1-atin essay, fairly good; Latin conversation, moderate; Greek, bad; arithmetic, bad; German, very good; French, good; religious knowledge, good; history and-geog raphy, good; Hebrew, good; geometry, good. General remarks: A young man not to be despised.” In spite of many "goods,” however, Ibsen was plowed, owing to his deficiencies in greek and arithmetic. He aspired in tnose days to be a pharinaceutica? chemist. Russia Ships Butter. The exportation of butter and eggs from Russia is assuming large pro portions. The regular steamship serv ice between Riga and London for the transportation of— butter and eggs to England could not carry all the con signments. and an extra steamship of large enough tonnage had to be added thereto. Even then about thirty car loadi- «'f butter could not bo shipped as promptly as desired. Russian but ter it) even shipped from Siberia >.o Denmark. Modest Comic Opera Singer. A comic opera singer in New York has put to shame all previous efforts in the way of advertising by suing her dressmaker for $1,000 damages be cause a certain stage costume was cut too low in the corsage. She declares that the gown above the waist consist ed largely of two gossamer shoulder straps and that the general effect was not consistent with modesty. The dressmaker replies that the garment is a copy of one worn by a society i leader of irreproachable good taste. Mining at Home and Abroad. It is a noteworthy fact that the occupation of mining, which is at tended with so considerable hazard in the United States as to make the lives of miners almost non-insurable, is in England not considered such a serious risk. Miners are longer lived than many other indoor or factory workers. This ia not the case in France, Cennany, br Sweden. The diff«”hce is attributed to more scien ce mining and sanitary regulations prevailing in the British mines. Loubfct Wants Np Re-election. Abel Combarlen, secretary general to President Loubet of Prance, Is quoted as saying in a recent inter view: “At the expiration of the peri od of seven years, for which he was elected, the president will step bach into the ranks. He is a plain citlzei\ whom the people have raised to offle^ for a given time, but he would consld er it contrary to the spirit of the 001^ stitution for him to take advantage of his present position in order to secure re election.'’ How to Keep an Umbrella. 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