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Show Painful Accident. Yesterday morning, Mr. John Bowers, a carpenter who works for the corporation, met with a most painful aocident and one whioh drained his system of a great deal of blood. He was descending the stone steps at the rear of the oity hall, to the joiner's shop beneath tho marshal's mar-shal's office, carrying in bis band a drawing knife, when he missed hb footing and fell down five or six steps, cutting a fitghtful gash in hit right band. The palm, from between the joints of the third and last fingers to the bottom ot the fleshy part of the thumb was cut to the bone, severing the artery and oauaing the blood to flow in a perieot stream. Acoom-1 panied by Officer Andrew Smith he Immediately proceeded to the Doctors Benedict's office, where the wound was dressed. Later in the day he was weak from loss of blood, but in an easy condition. It was said, by those wbo were with bim during the whole affair, that he must have lost half a gallon of blood. |