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The
lU^Fated
African
Expedition
How William Stowell
met deatk while making
pictures in the Dark
Continent.
eft a snap shot of Mr. Stow ell £nd at t. Dr. Armstrong, also killed. This was taken before they left New York.
AC A B L E report which reached New York the first week of December told of the accident which resulted in the death of William Stowell, a leading man well-known to all film goers, in the Congo, South Africa, where he had gone to direct the taking of pictures for the Smithsonian African Expedition. Dr. Joseph Robert Armstrong, business manager of the expedition, was also killed.
Stowell, with Armstrong and several others, was going to Victoria Falls, then to the Belgian Congo and down the Congo River to Stanford, taking scenes along the route. They were to go by way of Elizabethville and that part of the journey they were going by train. Out of Elizabethville a wild tank car crashed into their train, wrecking it. It was twenty-four hours before a relief train came and took them to a hospital in Elizabethville. Both Stowell and Armstrong were alive when they reached there but were too weak to survive. The other two men were badly wounded.
Stowell, who was thirty-eight years old, was not married. A director as well as an actor, he was given charge, by Universal, of the taking of motion pictures of native life, which were to be presented in an interesting and dramatic, as well as instructive way. Stowell had taken six thousand feet of film up to the time of his death.
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