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DIED AT THE TRACK. An incident of a sad type marked the racing at Windsor Monday and was thus described in a telegram to a Cincinnati newspaper: "There was one unexpected and most unwelcome visitor at the Windsor track this afternoon. Just as the horses were finishing in the fourth race, death unbidden slipped into the grandstand and claimed a victim. While Fantasy and Topmast were fighting it out through the stretch and the occupants of the stand, those at least who had wagered on that pair, were manifesting the interest which they felt in the outcome of the struggle by wildly enthusiastic shouts, an old man who had been intently watching the equine battle for supremacy was seen to clutch convulsively at the air. stagger and fall. "The crowd at large, oblivious of what had happened, contiuued to yell like mad, but persons near by sprang to the assistance of the prostrate man. while a messenger hastened to the betting inclosure to have summoned to the aid of the unfortunate a physician, if any might be present. One i responded to the call and hastened into the grandstand, but he arrived too late. He 1 found not a patient, but a corpse. The one to 1 whose aid he had hurried had expired almost a soon as he had sunk to the floor, heart failure 1 and extreme old age being the cause of his demise. The deceased was William Morton, a well known and highly respected citizen of Windsor. He was upward of eighty years of age, and for more than forty years had been a deputy collector of customs at Windsor, having long since been placed on the superannuated list. The 1 news of his death rapidly spread through the i grandstand and betting ring and occasioned great excitement."
