Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1903 — KILLED IN RAIL CRASH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KILLED IN RAIL CRASH.

Mrft Booth-Tucker Die* from Injuries Received. ' Mrs. Emma Booth-Tucker, consul in America of the Salvation army, wife of Commander Booth-Tucker and second

daughter ,pt Gen. William Booth, founder of the army, died at Marceline, Mo., Thursday from injuries received in a wreck »of the east-bound California train on the Santa Fe Railway at Dean Lake, Mo., eighty-five miles east of Kafisas City, at 9:30 o’clock Wednesday night.

Col. Thomas C. Holland, in charge of the Salvation army colony at Amity, Colo., is believed to be fatally injured. Fifteen others, were injured more or less seriously. The wrecked train was the east-bound California No. 2, which left Kansas City Wednesday evening at 6 o’clock for Chicago. The train ran into on open switch, striking a steel water tank, and all save the mail, express and day coaches were wrecked. Consul Booth-Tucker and Col. Holland were iu one of the Pullmans.

Dean Lake, the scene of the wreck, Is on isolated place alid there was great delay in taking care of the injured and getting them startedrfor Marceline. Mrs. Booth-Tucker, who was on her way home from a visit to the farm colony of the army at Amity, Colo,, had stopped in Kansas City a few hours to inspect the workingmen’s hotel, a work in which she was particularly interested. She left for Chicago soon afterward, accompanied by Col. Thomas Holland and her secretary, Miss Dammess. She expected to meet her husband in Chicago and was especially happy in returning home after what she said had been a very satisfactory trip. Mrs. Booth-Tucker, who was Miss Emma Booth, married Frederick Tucker in ISSB. He assumed her name as part of his own. He was born |n India and lived there several years after the marriage. He was commissioner of the army in India. Mr. and Mrs. BoothTucker were appointed to command the army in America in March, 1896, succeeding Eva. C. Booth, who had supplanted her , brother, Ballington Booth, who had been removed by the general. Mrs. Booth-Tucker was the second daughter of Gen. William Booth and was said to be the ablest of all the Booth children. She had enthusiasm tempered with good judgment and executive ability. It was these qualities which induced her father to send her to the United States in 1596 to try to bring about harmony in the American branch of the army.

MRS. BOOTH-TOCKEP