The evening world. Newspaper, May 12, 1905, Page 9

MOTHER TELLS HOW SHE SAVED HER TWO BOYS Mrs, Frederick Picker Relates, Awful Experience in Rail- road Wreck. DELIRIOUS AT TIMES. "I! Can Hear the Screams of the Wounded’ and Dying on Burning Train.” * THRUSTS SONS OUT WINDOW. Clad Only In Nightclothes They Run Barefooted for Mare Than fan Hour Lving over in semi-delirium the ter- Hble scenes of the Harrisburg wreck, Mra, Frederick Picker Iles seriously {11 ht her home, No, 123 St. Nioholas av hue, If @ stranger enters her room sh tereama, calling for help to save the wong eho imagines she secs burning death of struggling under the wrook che train in which sho and her two Kite sons 80 nearly lost thelr lives yea- y. She has times of comparative wever, and in one of these told “No words can convey’ the experienve,” she told her sister, “and as I tell it to you I can eee the torn bodies of tho killed through the flames of the burning train and hear tho porsams of tho wounded and dying, I hever would believe that humanity could tonget itself as it did there Men and women were runring up and down with- but @ atitch of clothing, screaming and Btumbling blindly to get as far a1 trom the wreck as possible, and a parently oblivious of ever feeling ex- Bept terror, “When the shock came I was pinned fown in my berth, by the upper one falling down. My two boys were fran cally clutching my arms, and calling bn me to save them, and I was too flamed even to make truggle, Then the first explosion and the car was lfted clear off the track and fung to one aide, falling tn a slanting post. Hom, and the upper berth was raised bo that we could move. Thrusts Children Out Window. “I took the two chtidren across the ger, and thrust them through a window. which a4 been blown out by the ex- plosion, Mr. Pfolffer came to our as- Biatance and helped us all olt, As X fot to the ground, another explosion threw me to my knees, and something struck me on the head felling me to the ground. ‘The air was full of flying debris, and almost (mmediately the tare burst into flame, “Then the terrible cries of the dying and the sight of the dead drove me to dietraction, and I had no thought but to got awny from there. I sednel my two boys by thelr hands and, bare- footed with only our night clothes on, we struggled awny. “The thint explosion came as wo were getting away, end threw us to the ground again, but fortunately we Wore not struck by anything, as many others were, I then ran banetcot for mom than an hour, screaming and calling for help. My two boys tried to top me, and both of them became as excited ax 1 was “I felt nothing and heard nothing, 1 MAKERS, PICKWICK ‘CLOTHES I | | denome } | Waa only conrolous of an effort to get | @way, I must have run over sharp jatones, for when I was found by two | man and taken into a house T saw that my feet and ankles were cut and bleed- |{ng, and both the boys had hurt thelr | fect in minning. Blood trom the wound | lin my head had covered my face and clothes and spattered on the boys deed ente, and even now tt seems hard- ly possible that we should have come MOTHER AND BOYS SHE SAVED. “I could not realize that we Were in-| {Ty THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1905. MORE THAN {00 MET DEATH IN _ BIG TORNADO, Later Reports Swell the» List, of Those Killed in Oklahoma. SNYDER, Okla, May 12—It ts esti- mated that the total loss of life caused by the tornado of Wednesiay nigtt will be nomowhat in excess of 10 persona. The property loss will not bo loss than | $500,000, Some 20) houses were dastroyed, and many substantial business houses, and factories of atone were tesed. The debris was in some cases carried many | miles. Other towns suffered oases, Reports Indicate that the casualties outside of Snyder will aggregate twenty-five or more, ' Gov. Ferguson hes issued a request on the Mayors of various Oklahoma towns, the heats.of charitable organ! mitions and the pastors of churchos to colect funds for tho assistance of the survivors, there belng no statutory means for the appropriation of money for cnlamities similar to the one at Snyder, A number of cities have re- sported. ‘The signal corps of the National Guard ty at Snyder to ald in tho rescue Pork. through that experience witif so few injuries, “1 escaped death in the wreck by & miracle, and after I was out of it and my clothing caught fire I do not know what prompted me to roll in the mud, as I did, I did it unconsciously, but it am told now that It was the only thing to do, and saved me from burhing to death," that they paid no attention to anything except her safety, INSANE MAN OUT TO AID HIS WIFE Court Releases William 4H. Stewart After Eleven Years’ Confinement — Testifies that He and Woman Are Married. ‘William H, Stewart, of Brooklyn, who (ras been an inmate of an insane asylum | tor eleven year, was to-day released by order of tho court, that he might teatity that the woman who claims ehe ts his wife 1s really gubh amd thet hia estate {3 logally responsible for the payment of a boant bill of §200 which ehe in- curred. Btewart's father, @ Brooklyn mor: chant, dled two years ago, cutting off the tmeapacitated son from all but | $10,000. The rematnder of Mr. Stewart's ‘estate, amounting to $260,000, wae willed to the Masonic omer, With young Stewart in the asylum hie wife was forced to earn her own living, She became an tnvniid @ year ago, and the doard dill she mow wants her alleged ‘husband to pay has accumulated, Justice Maddox ordered the release of Stewart, who testifled that the woman ‘was his wife, but that the marriage geremony had’ only recently been per- formed. “They formerly lived together an man and wife, As Justice Maddox's onlor for Stiw- art's reenso does not expire untl next Cetober the awyerm interested tn the wefare of Mrs, Stewart are taking advantngo of Stewart's eaye of ab- sence to Inatitute procesdings for contesting the will of tho dead mer- chant, HAIL TO THE THIEF! Raffles, the cleverest of burglars, will Meet you to-morrow in the Saturday color “supplement of ‘The Byening World, "The Ides of Maroh' ia the | firet story of “Raffes, the Amatour Cracksman,” a collection of the great- est bunglar romances ever written, Don't miss St, A carload of suppiloe was sent trom Vernon to Snyder. Great need exists for clothing, bedding and coored food, WIFE NO. 2 ACTS AS DETECTIVE, Gets Evidence Proving Her Husband a Bigamist and Pro- duces Wife No. 1—Then Re. lents and Begs Forgiveness. ‘Walther No, 1 and the two women came to Police Headquamers togethor, ‘The two wives were placed in adjoin- ing rooms and the doors closed. When wite No. 2 was brought in Walther protested vigorously that she wes his only wife, When the first wav ‘ ‘out of the other door he seemed about to faint, Qirs, Sophie Walther said @he did not care to have anything to do with tthe cooper and then Mrs, Agnes Walther begged forgiveness for causing his arrest. Walther was held to the Grand Jury PARDON REFUSED TO T.6. BARKER ‘Man Who Shot Rev. Jotin Keller, of Arlington, N. J., in 1901, Must Serve Full Term of Five Years in Trenton Jail. TRENTON, Dr. Lyon’s PERFECT Tooth Powder Cleanses and beautifies tho teeth and purifies the Breatky Used ople of refinement for Bren rattan of a century, Very convenient for touristé, J, May 12.—The Board PREPARED BY Eye Exami SHOULD NOT BE PUT OFF —it should not be trusted to an ordinary optician. There is danger in delay—there is vastly more danger in wrong treat- ment, We offer the examination, the advice of ocullsts recognized as among the very foremost in the profession, Glasses only if needed—and then at MODERATE COST, yy, Ocultsts and Optictans. 48 years’ practice 223 Sixth Ave, Near 16th st, 1345 Broadway Aftfer acting as her own detective | in 6750 bell, and gathering evidence that caused the Near ith st oF arrest of her husband, Jacob Walther, & Jersey City cooperage owner, Mrs ‘Walther (No, 2 threw herself in her hus- band’s arma to-day at Jersey City \Po- lice Headquarters, teafully begging his forgiveness and declaring she loved him in aplte of the appearance of an undi- yorced Mrs, Walther, Tho wife's tears followed a dramatic scene at the Jer- sey City headquarters, arranged by Chiof Murphy with an eye to surprising Walther, by having both wives walk in upon him from adjoining rooms, According to the story told Chief Murphy Mrs, Walther No, 1 was Sophte Brung, of No, 1% Stydam avenue, Brooklyn, where the two were mar- red tn 1883, After eight years, dur- Ing which time they had four chidrun, Wather eft his wife ond went to Jer- aey City, Two and a hat yvare ago the, Jersey City evoper in Van Vorst Park firet saw Mrs, Agnes Wilsoa, a widows ‘They met frequently, had @ bowing acquaintance and finally became mvell enough known to each other for Wal- ther to propose. 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