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Show ESCAPES DEATH BY A NARROW MARGIN Robert E. Knowlden, Jr., "Who Fell From Train While Walking in His Sleep, Returns Home. Robert Knowlden. Jr.. who. while walking in his sleep, fell off the train bound for Camp Kearny, at Las Vegas, Nevada, October 12, passed through Salt Iake yesterday on his way to Provo, where his parents live. He has been discharged dis-charged from the 145 th. field artillery First Utah) because of the injuries he received at the time of his fall. Mr. Knowlden said yesterday that the train was going at the raie of forty-five miles an hour when he fell. He remembers remem-bers having crawled along a gulch at the side of the roadbed and standing up on the track to hail a passing train which took him to a Los Angeles hospital. He remained in tho hospital for six weeks, undergoing several delicate operations. Both of his jaws were broken, one eye badly cut, lips torn from his face, neck gashed and back severely bruised. I ic lay unconscious for three days after he reached the hospital. Mr. Knowlden said that the physician who operated on him at the Los Angeles hospital and who had been practicing for thirty years, declared no case had ever come to his attention in which recovery was made in so short a time, considering the seriousness of the injuries. Had not Mr. Knowlden been in the prime of physical physi-cal condition, the doctor told him, his accident would have resulted fatally. Many Htahns returned on the same I rain with Mr. Knowlden to spend their furloughs at home. Among them were Mozart Boshard and Sergeant Karl Bombard Bomb-ard of Provo, Alonzo Clayton and Royal Howe of Salt lake, Sergeant Clifford Pierpont of Provo and Lester Dunn of Logan. |