OCR Text |
Show Chapter of Accidents. On Wednesday evening last, a lad was driving a load of hay down Main Street, towards the Island, and in crossing the first bridge near Lundberg and Gard's mill, the horses became frightened at some boys and ran off the dugway. The wagon was turned upside down, with the wheels in the air. The demoralization of the load of hay was all the damage done. A number of little boys were playing on the U. & N. track near the depot, with a small hand car called a "trolly," when one of them was severely hurt. They are all too small to give an intelligible account of how the accident happened, but it seems that number of them were riding on the "trolly" when one of them fell in front of it, with his right hand on the rail in such a manner as to come between the rail and the flange of the wheel. Three of the fingers of the right hand were injured, and on one of them the flesh was cut open its entire length, on the palm side, clear to the bone. There is a danger of the loss of this finger. The second toe on the right foot was also badly mashed. The victim of the accident is a son of Brother Josiah Hendricks of the [?]d ward, and is only six years old. We witnessed the dressing of his wounds by Dr. Ormsby and during the operation the little fellow never whimpered. Even when the Dr., with a pair of scissors, trimmed the lacerated flesh, and cut out a finger nail by the roots, the little hero maintained a stoical silence, perfectly astonishing in one so young. On last Tuesday afternoon an accident occurred near the terminus of the U. & N. A brakeman named King wishing to couple a construction train that was moving quite fast, with some cars standing just ahead of it, ran at full speed in front of the moving car, and succeeded in shooting the coupling rod home, but the momentum of the moving cars was so great as to instantly bend the rod double. Mr. King was caught by the hips between two cars, and it is a marvel how he escaped instant death. He was brought to Logan Thursday morning to receive Dr. Ormsbe's attention. No bones were fractured, but a gash was cut in the right hip, some two inches long, and the region of the hips was badly bruised. |