in stories of marine accidents, cave-ins, etc. Not
infrequently some of the unusual attendant circumstances give a story
news value: e.g., a policeman dragged from his horse and run over by an
automobile while he is trying to stop a runaway.

Here are some accident stories from the newspapers:

Fatalities:

| Six men were killed and a dozen |
|seriously injured early to-day by an |
|outbound Panhandle passenger train |
|crashing into the rear end of a Chicago, |
|Milwaukee and St. Paul stock train at |
|Twelfth and Rockwell streets.--_Chicago |
|Record-Herald._ |

Manner:

| Run down by her own automobile, which |
|she was cranking, at First and G streets,|
|northwest, Dr. Alma C. Arnold, a |
|chiropractic physician, 825 Fifteenth |
|street, northwest, was forced against the|
|wheel of a passing wagon and seriously |
|injured this morning.--_Washington |
|Times._ |

Cause:

| Over-balanced by a granite stone |
|weighing four tons, the entire cornice |
|over the west portico of the new west |
|wing of the capitol fell to the ground |
|this afternoon, carrying with it Daniel |
|Logan, foreman for the Woodbury Granite |
|Company.--_Madison Democrat._ |

Attendant Circumstances:

| With a blast that shook the entire city|
|and was believed by many to be an |
|earthquake, three boilers in the new |
|engine house of the Pabst brewery on |
|Tenth street, between Chestnut street and|
|Cold Spring avenue, exploded at about 4 |
|o'clock this morning.--_Milwaukee Free |
|Press._ |

=2. Robberies.=--Another large class of news stories is concerned with
robberies of various kinds. Unfortunately for the reporter, very few
robberies are alike; beyond the common ground of the interest in the
amount stolen and the cleverness of the robber's work, there is seldom
any one thing that may be looked for as the feature of a robbery story.
The reporter must decide