Show AN IKDIAX BOY RUN OVER ALittle CarelessnessBrin Sorrow to a Wickiup Last Monday afternoon as freight train Xo 611 was leaving Logan for the south and when It was about half block from the station platform a little Indian boy tried to inoW mount o one of the cars The train was makIng1air stS and accidentally the lad alippeJ and fell to the ground with his right leg over the track In a twinkling the heavy wheels passed over the limb and left him a cripple forever The condntnr tor stopped the train catbVr and a crowd gl1tberej around while waTimiffi word was conveyed to Marshal C ookton imlJtdistely who soon after arrived The boys father and mother were present and raw evidences of unbounded Is they beheld their sons gr leg ef so a3 sadly wrecked When the Marshal arrived he placed the IP boy in a vehicle and brought him up town togeifaer with his relatives A reporter repaired to the place where the carriage stopped and in a shed in the Tithing office yard on a louRhly constructed table lay the vIctim oi the acciaeni Dr Parkinson who had bean sent for was cleansing the wound and around the bet stood Marshal Crookstou Newell Kimball brian Martineau and others dome all they could to alleviate the boys suffering while now could be plainly seen the extent i f the injury to tbe lei I which presented a sickening sight The bone was broken close to the thigh and fractured so badly at the knee joint that the doctor picked a number of pieces of bone from the leg leaving the ends o1 the bone about half on inch apart The gash cut by the wheel wa fourteen inches in length extending from a point clqe to the thigh down the leg abont half way between the knee ami ankle This cut laid open about three inches most of tie way the doctor sewed the gash up and made the boy as comfortable otherwise as possible The boys lathe goes by tbe name of John and the boy M railed PI UII J 3T ihe Indians The family had ju tramt from iJIackfoot where they live Al night the sorrowing Urviiis staid J at their sons bedside and occasionally the mother would go otfino a jmroirsm of tears When morning came in Ornisby and Parkinson found that nor no-r had taken place in the bavj leg I The blood did not circulate and the foot was cold ud they entreated the father to allow them to sever the limb front the body but he was firm in his resolution to save the lee or let Uie boy die wfth it on and said be would tat the latter to Blueafoot where the Indian doctor would cure him Accordingly Ac-cordingly yesterday the boy was taken to the depot and whirled northward the passenger train The most remarkable nan of fbi M was the indomitable pluck and plind coolness with which the boy himself bore the injury From the time the wheel struck him until he left Loan be uttered no sound save when talking to Ibis I-bis parents His grit wasthesubject universal comment With that but heroism which has been banded dora among his race from the time Eft Philip was shot at Mount Hope tad I perhaps centuriej before ti 1 many tbtboy calmly and unflinchingly watched Dr Parkinson sew up the gash I1A i tilt courage he may get well and me ba 0 leg but the chances are soaieihit against Another him feature ot the affair the I I evident necessity there is for the city council to prohibit i boys from jumping on and off tao trains at the depot Innumerous In-numerous instances which havecome under our observation lately coadpc tors brakesmen aud other employees have been compelled to fire urchins from the platforms of moving trains but not always does their wat dfulnes answer and hardly a train enters the station but ii a boarded bvoy sho get on just for the ride If such ac iitns were made offenses against the law the olFeuderd could be arreSted and punished and the nuisance woulLcxise Logan Journal |