Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-06-30 | Page 1 | King Edward's Escapes from Death

t 4 44 4 KING EDV EDWARDS EDWARD'S ARDS ARD'S ESCAPES FROM DEATH 44 4 44 King Edward VII has had ninny many narrow escapes from death or injury In- In 4 4 Jury during his eventful lire life e rh The following foB wing are most most interesting 4 44 4 While a a. a schoolboy at Oxford a boat in which he tie was rowing was 4 44 4 overturned He saved himself by swimming ashore 41 4 44 4 1 Upon returning to England In 1860 after his visit to the United 4 44 4 States and Canada his voyage was so delayed by terrible storms that 4 44 4 warships were sent in search of the w warship Hero on OD which he was 4 the royal passenger 4 J In 1871 an attack of of typhoid fever threatened to result fatally 4 4 His life irus was s despaired of but was saved by vigorously rubbing his body 4 with brandy 4 In 1873 1573 tiger shooting In India a tiger sprang upon the thee 4 44 4 i e Princes Prince's elephant His life was saved roved by CoL White hite of his suite who whit 4 4 kl killed killed l d th the beast 4 t In 1893 1593 he slipped ard and fell on a stairway sustaining an Injury to 4 4 his k knee e which threatened to make him lame for life Within a few 4 44 4 months month's he bp had c completely recover recovered d. d 4 44 4 On On April 4 1900 1900 1 while while- en route to 10 Copenhagen he be was shot at by 4 44 44 4 a h crazed half crazed nUn mail man named at t the Brussels railway station Two 4 4 were shots fired both of which missed the mark marle 4 44 4 While on a visit to Emperor William of Germany he was hunting 4 44 4 stags and two of them charged upon his horse The horse reared and 4 44 4 Threw him to the ground He as only slightly bruised 4 44 4 In 1901 while visiting Sir Thomas Thomas Thomas-Lipton's Lipton's yacht the Shamrock the 4 4 mast was 38 carried away and fell on a seat Just vacated by the King 4