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Show - . ., . ' , 1 - ' (. - 4 'V J -i - kr 1 h J -t k- L " NEW YOri, June 8a. Fred Knox brcke his seek and fractured his fckull forty-six years ago. Today It wai announced an-nounced that he Cied Thursday'at his heme her In his ninety-first year, j A heavy cornice fell on Knox one day in the summer of 1860, while he is passing a building in course of errrTiun at Ninth avenue and Twenty- . - ' -' " sixth street.' ills neck was broken and his skull was fractured. Doctors declared he could not live more than twenty-four hours. . They were astounded as-tounded when they found a week later that Knox was not only living, but gaining Btrength. . u , " None of them could explain how it was possible for Knox to live with a broken neck, and they were even more surprised to find .that no part of his body was p&ralyxed. - - After being treated at St.,Luke hospital for two years, Mr. Knox was able to return to his business,: although the vertebrae In his neck had not Joined together. . . While In St. Louis he met with an accident which resulted in the forming form-ing of a cataract on his left eye. On account of his neck the physicians did not dare to operate, and he lost his sight in that eye. Mr. Knox until 1886.' when he retired, was in the wholesale Wrapping paper busiwex. |