American Fork Citizen | 1915-07-31 | Page 4 | John Street, Sr., Has Perilous Escape

John Street, Sr., Has Perilous Escape Young Team Runs Away With Street Leg Hooked Into Guard of Mowing Machine. Wednesday afternoon John Street enmo near losing his life in a mowing mow-ing machine runaway. As it was lie was drugged two hundred ynrdp wl'li the guard of the knife blado liookul Into the tendons of his left foot, whlh tho team galloped over tho Held a' I full speed. Ho nnnlly managed to get himself looso from tho perilous posi-i tlon and thus saved his life. Thomas Gray saw tho team, on or which was u young colt, running around tho Held nnd ran and stopped it. Ho then began to search for Mr Street and put him in a wagon uiult dent him Home, where- ti doctor wu en I led uud sowed up tho wound, winch was ubout eight Inches long. It appears that .Mr, Street left his' team stnuding and they rnu nwny. In I mi endeavor to stop them ho go' in ' front of the fust moving knife. Jntii ns it touched hlm tho largo gear wheel snapped In two, thus stopping the, knife, clso 111 J foot would have been I cut. off. Tlvi b'.iorj) pointed gum J. however, ennght tho man, and dragged hlm over tho field, skinning liU x badly, tearing n long deep wound In tho ankle uud brulsli'g his chest until he spit blood. Tho doctor niitlrlpatrs no serious permnncnt results unions blood-poisoning sets In, which Is unlikely.