This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Clark, Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/974 Message Board Post: THE FAIR PLAY newspaper, Ste. Genevieve, MO, July 27, 1895: Last Tuesday morning while Judge C. P. Clark was hauling straw on his farm to fill up some washouts, his team ran away with him, and struck a tree with such force that he was thrown forward against it, fracturing the outer bone of the skull just above the right eye, and inflicting such internal injuries that he will probably die. Dr. E. C. McCormick who went out to see him, left there at 8 o'clock in the evening. He says the fracture is not very dangerous, and that the Judge is conscious, but his internal injuries, in the region of the liver, are such that little or no hope is entertained of his recovery. His many friends throughout the county will hear with deep concern of his unfortunate accident. --- Farmington Times. THE FAIR PLAY Newspaper, Ste. Genevieve, MO, Aug. 3, 1895: Last week we made a brief mention of the accident to Judge C. P. Clark, of Libertyville, expressing the hope that it might not be so serious as then believed. Unhappily that hope was destroyed by a completer knowledge. The unfortunate man while driving a team of unruly horses was run away with and in the final crash had his skull fractured, besides suffering severe internal injury. The best medical aid proved fruitless, and death ensued the succeeding Saturday. He passed away quietly and resigned to his fate. Judge Clark was born in Perry County, September 15, 1838, removing with his parents to St. Francois county in 1847, where he resided ever since. He leaves a mother aged 86 years, and four brothers to mourn his departure. Two of these latter are residents of Texas, one is a citizen of St. Francois, and the fourth is Jas. [James] H. Clark, Register of the Land Office in Ironton. Judge Clark was an estimable citizen, having more than once been honored with public prefermen! t, and his death is a great loss to the community of which he was a member. ---Ironton Register.