Show A PAINFUL ACCIDENT On Friday evening at fifteen minutes to Goclock a painful accident occurred on he Rio Grande Western railroad at the corner of Sixth West and Third North streets Some small boys were playing around and placing nails on the track to let the cars pass over and flatten theminto what they call scissors After the switch engine had passed over the two boys went to get their nails not noticing that a car was following behind and unfortunately the car struck one of the boys as he was getting get-ting up and cut a severe gash in the head crushing the skull into tho brain Dr Richards Rich-ards attended the little boy who is but eight years old and found thai it was necessary nec-essary to perform an operation So he so cured an assistant and performed the operation oper-ation just after the accident had occurred and removed the broken pieces cf the skull off the brain by which the brain was brought back to its former surface Tha head was neatly bandaged and all effort to give comfort and every care was kindly attended to ease the suffering of the poor boy The family is very poor and it would be a charitable act if the Rio Grande West era railroad company would be kind enough to pay the expenses of the operation The other boy escaped injury with the exception of a few scratches received bv being knocked down by the other boy who was knocked against him by the car The boy is now doing well and restinS comfortably Let this bo another lesson to parents to look out for their children W A |