Show THRONGS SEE SURGEON i CUT OFF TRUCK I VICTIMS VICTIM'S lEG NEW YOnI YORK April 24 f With a si 81 silent silent lent Int awestricken and heart touched gallery gallery gal gal- Jer lery of ot many thousand persons forming formIng formIng form- form Ing a sort of or amphitheatre about a surgeon and his operating table able in tn the Delancey street plaza of ot the Williamsburg Williamsburg Williams- Williams burg bridge Seymour Richman 8 years ears old was supported by several men while Dr of ot Gouverneur Gou hospital his foot It had d been crushed between tho the driving chain and the sprocket wheel heel of or an un automobile truck Although the police Te reserves er were out the they had hall no disorder to contend with Every g heart beat at for the little fellow rellow who heroically bore up under the ordeal ordeal or ordeal or- or deal and who ho only asked when told that tho the foot must bo be cut off orr at nt once that Ills his mother mothel be sent Bent for Every window In Inn a hundred tenements was wan filled with the tho of women and children who looked down upon the spectacle and the only noises in the crowds were the sighs and sobs of ot these and children as ns the they watched the cur sur surgeon geon geo work beneath a 1 brilliant arc light at the tho corner Boys on Errand Seymour and his brother Milton lIlton 10 I years rears old had been sent SNIt on an errand b by their mother nn and were starting back when thc they saw a large five ton automobile automobile auto auto- mobile truck turn lurn from tho the Bowery Hower into Delancey Delance street They believed It would carry rry them across the bridge to Brook Drook- lyn Jn The They hoppen on hu but tat at Attorney street Just before entering tho rho bridge e the he er driver started to turn south The Tho boys bos hurried to hop off ore Milton went off ott the end wifely safely but Seymour Jumped off oCt ff tho the side sille lIe Ho struck against an au automobile nu- nu at nt the curb and bounded back against time the truck Foot Caught In Ch Chain Ho Ile fell nn and one leg went up In theair theall the tho thour all air ur It was waa that foot root that was caught In n the hea heavy v driving chain of ot the tho truck and carried d around Into the small sprocket wheel which sends the tho power to the rear wheels of ot the truck truel The driver heard the tho boys boy's cries and stopp stopped d the ho truck but b by that time tho the crushed foot root was at tho rho farthest side Bide of or the wheel For a few minutes there was much excitement excitement ex ex- excitement and shouting While Policeman Policeman Police Police- man telephoned d for nn an ambulance ambulance lance ance another than man tailed called hook and ladder ladder lad lad- ladder der company compan No 18 from Its station near there For twenty minutes Lieutenant Lieu LIcu- tenant Duane and Firemen Wall Vall all Dow and O'Sullivan battered the chain with sledge hamm hammers rs but could not break It it Little Boy Is 15 Brave All this time the crowd was becoming becom- becom ing nit greater and the boys boj's pain more cute acute but hut there thero was waB hardly a whimper from rom him Finally Dr told Seymour Semour ho ha must cut his leg off ott and lOd would give gl him something to deaden the lie pain As AI he ho w was was alt h applying Ing a hyper hyper- I Injection to morphine the bo boy boj d I IId Id like to have o m my mother come I Some one hurried for the tho lie mother While the ho sur surgeon eon work worked ell Sc Seymours Seymour's mour's mours bod body was WIlS supported b by Policeman and the firemen with Milton the brother broth broth- er standing h by When finally the leg leJ was off and thebo the tho bo boy wits was In the ambulance his mother moth arrived She rodo redo in ht tho ha ambulance to Gouverneur hospital with Milton running running run- run ning ling alongside of tho the vehicle At the tho hospital tho rho BUrl surgeons eOns fI said Seymour Semour was likely to die but hut that Dr had done tho the best thing In n such ch an nn emergency |