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[[newspaper clipping]] ACCIDENT TO EDWIN BOOTH.

THE ACTOR PERHAPS FATALLY INJURED.
MR. BOOTH THROWN FROM HIS CARRIAGE WHILE RIDING, AT COS COB, CONN.

Much excitement was created in this city last evening by the announcement that Edwin Booth had been fatally injured, at his residence near Cos Cob, Conn. Inquiry was made and it was learned that about 4 o´clock yesterday afternoon, Mr. Booth was driving in his phaeton, and his horse, becoming frightened, ran away. The phaeton was demolished, and Mr. Booth, thrown to the ground with great violence, and sustained internal injuries which it is feared will prove fatal. Information of the sad accident was telegraphed by his wife to Mr. McVicker of Chicago, her father, Mrs. Booth, the mother of Edwin Booth, and his brother Joseph, were summoned from Long Branch, where they had been spending the Summer, and immediately departed for the scene of the accident. It was impossible to obtain any details of the particular injuries which Mr. Booth has suffered, but all accounts unite in stating that they are of a serious nature, and, if they do not result fatally, will disable him, in all probability, for several months.

He is under important engagements to Mr. Daly of the Fifth Avenue Theater and to John T. Ford of Baltimore. Mr. Booth was to have traveled through the South with Mr. Ford during the comin Winter. Mr. Daly and Mr. Ford were both informed by telegraph of the accident, and it is understood that engagements with them have been practically canceled, although nothing definite can be learned upon this point. It was impossible last night to reach Cos Cob, the scene of the accident, by telegraph, and the details of the disaster could not be obtained. Cos Bob si the point at which Charles M. Barras, the author of "The Black Crook" was killed several years ago. It was at first supposed that the accident had resulted from a railway collision, or from an attempt on the part of Mr. Booth to jump from the train, but as previously stated the accident occurred while out riding.

It is thought that the accident to Mr. Edwin Booth may result fatally. Mr. Booth, however, is a man of very strongly-knit and wiry physique, and capable of great endurance; and from this fact, and from the fact that he is of a firm patient, resolute nature, a happier result may be anticipated. The loss of Edwin Booth would be a great and irremediable calamity to the American state. He is now in the meridian of this powers and his fame-ripened by a larger experience of both renown and adversity than falls to the lot of most men; and since misfortune and success have but strengthened in him a noble devotion to what is noblest in his art, while developing and augmenting his capacities to serve its cause, it is not too much to say that around him are clustered the highest hopes of the future of our theater. In few instances are private virtues so closely wedded to public eminence as in the case of Edwin Booth; and the community would feel in losing him, that it had lost an exemplar, an ornament, a friend, a blameless and heroic gentleman. [[/newspaper clipping]]

although pretty warm. We went by Lucas's turnpike, dined there and returned at 5.

Tuesday Aug. 17" 1875. Wrote to Stafford to ask him how the exhibition promised and to Whittredge proposing to him to go to Bangall later in the season.

We were all very much startled at the annexed notice of an accident to Booth in todays Tribune. That is all we know of it. I have written to Mrs. Booth begging her or some one to tell me about it. I am in hopes that reports are greatly exaggerated but I am most anxious to hear further which I undoubtedly will by tomorrows Tribune. - The photographs of the baby came today and are excellent. I have sent one to Lucy and one to Gussie. Wrote to Whittredge, proposing to him to go to Rangall for October. Received a nice letter from Eastman Johnson. When I went to the Strand to mail my letter to Mrs. Booth I saw Perry who had just come from Leeds, in a waggon with George Wynkoop on his way out there where Homer already is. Had a postal card from Bellows who was disappointed in Hurley and could not get in at Wynkoops and has gone to Leeds.

Wednesday 18. The Tribune sent a reporter to Cos Cob Saturday to find out about Booth. He reports him as not seriously injured. One of his ribs is broken and one of the bones in one of his arms, but when his brother arrived he was smoking his pipe. I expect to see Booths pipe sticking out of his coffin. They report now that he will probably be well in time to fulfill his engagements 

Transcription Notes:
. waggon - British spelling of wagon