THIRTT-rOUR TEARS AT
935 F Street
DIAMONDS
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And Other Precious Stones
JEWELERS PLA TJWM SMITHS
VIRGINIA HOLIDAY
MARKED BY DEATHS
More Than Dozen Come to
Violent End in Accidents
of Various Kinds.
By the AtsnciStad Pres*
RICHMOND, Va., September 7,
More than a. dozen persons met
violent death in A'irginia during the
day holidays and more than a
score of others were seriously injured.
The automobile, the train, the river,
the seaehore. poison and firearms fig
ured in the toll.
Iri addition the crew of eight was
taken from a burning vessel off the
A'irginia coast and a broken switch
was discovered on the main line of
the Seaboard Air Line Railroad at
Richmond five minutes before a fast
passenger train of 12 Pullmans was
due to dash past.
A panic was narrowly averted in a
motion picture-vaudeville theater at
Petersburg when a film caught fire.
Some one in the audience shouted
"Fire!" and almost immediately there
vvas a rush for the exits. This vvas
halted hy firemen and ushers, how
ever, before any one was injured.
Several Injured Seriously,
j Some of those injured in the many
! mishaps throughout the State were
! In serious condition today,
j The automobile took the heaviest ;
| death toll. Mrs. T. E. Underwood of I
; Keysville was killed when the auto- j
; mobile in which she vvas riding left |
I the road and fell into the AMrginian
' railroad track near Brookneai. Be
j fore the machine could be gotten off
j the tracks it was demolished by a
I passing train.
j Eugene Rakes, another passenger,
vvas seriously injured,
i Frank Perry, 45, of Greensboro, X.
