ROOSEVELT IN PERIL.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 510, 5 September 1902, Page 2

ROOSEVELT IN PERIL.

LANDAU CRASHED INTO BY TROLLY CAR. TWO MEN KILLED. PRESIDENT ESCAPES WITH BRUISES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Washington, Sept. 4. President Roosevelt, accompanied by the Governor of Massachusetts anu other gentlemen, started m a four horse landau for a drive from Pittfield to Linnet. After two miles had been traversed the driver of the landau tried to cross the electric trolly line. The landau went on the shady side, not noticing a trolly car approaching at the rale of forty miles an hour.

ji.The lady passengers in the car were urging the driver to go at full speed in order to overtake the President’s party.

Craig, of President Roosevelt’s body guard, stood up and signalled the trollyman, who frantically pulled his bell and vainly applied the brakes. The two front horses had cleared tho line when the car crashed into the righthand wheeler, throwing it against tho laudau, and tilting the vehicle at an angle of 45 degrees. Craig was thrown under tho whocls of the car.

He was frightfully mangled, and was killed instantly. The drivor of the landau had his skull fractured, aud has since died. The Governor of Massachusetts, aud Corteleyon, President Roosevelt’s private secretary, caught hold of tho Prcsidfrnt, w’ho was not thrown out, but struck his face against tho door, raising a lump as big as a fist. - Tho other passengers were hurt, but not very seriously. President Roosevelt showed admirablo coolness, though affected by the death of Craig, whom ho greatly esteemed. Instantly he ordered reassuring tele-

grams to bo sent to White House and New York to avert a Wall street panic. President Roosovclt admitted privately, “ I just missed death.” Ho angrily asked tho motor man 11 Why did you drive so fast ?” He received the reply : “ I had tho right of way—you ought to havo looked out.” MOTOR DRIVER AND CONDUCTOR ARRESTED. THE PRESIDENT CONTINUES HIS JOURNEY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Washington, Sept. 4. Tho motor driver and conductor havo been arrested on a charge of manslaughter. Roosevelt’s driver was ordered to go fast. The press complain of tho lamentablo absence of precaution to onsuro tho President’s safety while touring. President Roosevolt continued tho journey within an hour, aud gavo an address to tho people of Lennox and Stockbridgo, though evidently suffering.