Show V c THE OGDEN STANDARD EXAMINER— SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 23 1934 x O o By Harry Barsantee of 1933 the annual of that year’s oddest accidents with the strange case of the man who failed in his efforts to commit suicide but died by accident in the attempt thus achieving his objective anyway Old Man Accident tried to repeat in 1934 tA young man in Los Angeles Wade Cunningham became so despondent over a love affair that he decided to die He turned on the gas in his home and sat down to write a When he finished he lit a farewell ' letter d An hour and room cigaret in the in he woke half later a a hospital and was up informed that he Had been blown through the walls but still had a chance to live Well there you are A fellow wants to die and Death goes on a holiday More often of course it is the other way around but the Grim Reaper was conspicuous by his ab- - -sence in a large number of the oddest accidents of 1934 He put the finger on one motorist but Lady Luck took a hand in the affair and won The man had gone out to his garage on a cold morning closed doors sat in the driver’s seat and started the motor running to get it warmed up Deadly carbon monoxide fumes filled the garage His head dropped and he lost consciousness As his muscular control left him his body fell forward — onto the horn button The klaxon sounded a long steady blast and though he did not hear it his family did They rushed into the garage and threw open the doors and windows The air arrived in time to save his life AT the close gas-fille- n 'ALBERT BARRETT New Jersey got a fracskull when a dog fell 1 0 tured storier and struck him on the head Mrs Arney Clutter her young son and her brother all of East Liverpool Ohio lost their lives when their pet police dog upset the boat in which they were riding A lavish public kiss from her bulldog cost Evalyn Wright St Louis a nice damage and repair bill The kiss distracted Miss Wright whose auto swerved against a new boulevard light The city asked $15625 post for the post and the garage man $73 to repair the car 1 Andrew Pelton New York snapped his teeth at his dog’s nose in play Buster snapped back and meant it closing his teeth on his master's nose Pel-to- n ’ - went to the for hospital treatment a Murphysboro Illinois bulldog killed himself Left alone he turned on all the gas jets in the kitchen range and was asphyxiated before help arrived Cupie life-givi- ng YVHEN of her automobile went ledge on a 178-forA ND cats figured in some Economy Mountain near Truro 14 and N S turned somersaults curious accidents : before bringing up against a tree Edward Miles Mrs Janet H Ward Indianapolis lad played More shaken than hurt he crawled from the wreckage and began resident of Westville "N J eswith his cat No matcomplimenting himself on his escape Then he caught the strains minor with and bruises cuts caped ter where he hid his pet would ft caroled consolingly — of a song from his dashboard radio find him ' Suddenly Edward Philip Romano of Jersey City was catapulted spied the empty refrigerator in the air his when through J the kitchen and climbed in baby The prize escape of the year however ocOutside the carriage was struck by a skidding auto in front shutting the door behind him his home Henri of curred in France where cat clawed the porcelain Baby and pillows went sailing Finally the mother awoke The pillows landed first and Philip landed on in swallowed fell field and wheat of a was amazed at the pat’s antics opened Guyot them— unscratched 1 in binder the the door wheat of a Edward had suffocated flying machinery up William Weber Chicago window washer In Lepseny Hungary Mrs Mihaly Canand came out neatly bound in a bundle There tor’s cat crept into the oven to )find relief from was scrubbing a pane of glass in the tower wasn’t a scratch on himl i’ of the Sky Ride at the World’s Fair when he the heat Mrs Kantor decided to do some bath-rpoA f attacked was viciously PENNSYLVANIAN fell into a by a chicken hawk baking and lighted the fire under the oven r He incurred minor injuries in 1934 and an Indianan fell out Hearing cries of distress she opened the oven Firecrackers sometimes take life but in ohe door A feline ll of one her fur blazing raced in 1934 they saved it case Bert Phillips Pittsburgh had his bath madly through the house igniting draperies in Early on the 5 motorist of her flight a dark amid Minutes later j the house was in shower a of when morning a July traveling rudely interrupted road near Kenosha Wisconsin found the highashes broken glass a stranger dropped through the Similar to this was the experience of Mrs way suddenly' lighted up by firecrackers tossed skylight into the tub beside him Beulah Hopfrom a passing car The glare outlined the Victor Barbaglia of Vineland N J kins Gary Indiana stepped on a cake of wet j form of a man apparently dead directlyj in She went to the basement to tend the furnace soap skidded across the bathroom shot out an his path fire An oily rag caught fire and she tossed Jamming on his brakes he stopped dropped three stories and open window in time to avoid running over Harold Ager aside without looking to see where it went it plumped unhurt into a sandpile 25 of Kenosha who was not dead but unin DenveT landed It was on ' the cat’s back setting its fur A dog reported conscious after having been struck by a in 1933 ablaze The cat dashed through the house with In 1934 one was reported in drfver Mrs Barbaglia after it before the dash was Cleveland His victim was Stephen Stana 32 James Braswell a Kansas City who received a serious back injury when the over Mrs Barbaglia’s gown caught fire and fell under the wheels of a taxicab she was painfully burned and $100 worth of youth dog frightened by an oncoming car leaped when he attempted to "hook” a ride One him him the sidewalk and threw to "c against damage was done to her home wheel passed over his head and chest He got Pontius Kendallvflle Indiana Dogs by the way figured iif an unusual Harvey number uf I934’s oddest accidents scratched a match on his trousers to light his up and skated home unhurt (Copyright 1934 by EveryWsek Masrazln) over ot 68-year-o- Three-months-o- ld hide-and-se- ld ’ - s m fire-ba- -- ? hit-and-r- un hit-and-r- un 12-year-- ua CIICIllllOllliillllliiiiiliiiiJiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiii ! ek The pants burst into flame and were demolished before the fire was exA physician dressed his badly tinguished burned legs Somewhat similar in embarrassing results was an industrial accident reported to the National A hose carrying oxygen and Safety Council gas to the welding torches lay on the floor A leak had developed in the hose right where the hero of this story was working With no respect for his privacy the gas Sudquietly seeped right up his trouser leg denly there was an explosion and the pants blew off There was no injury except to the worker’s feelings pipe oil-soak- ed Pittis New Philadelphia Ohio overturned in his car More shaken than hurt he crawled from the wreckage and began comThen he plimenting himself on his escape the strains of a song from his dashboard caught radio set still going despite the impact It caroled consolingly: "I’ll be glad when you’re dead you rascal you” Joseph SOUTHERN Missourian drove a ram-bliwreck of a car along the highway rattled It and wheezed but kept going There were no brakes on the car 'and as the driver tried to go around a curve the car went through the fence and came to rest where it should have been all the-- ' time — in an auto A ng junk yard I Justice was also meted out to the Wisconsin road-ho- g who after weaving through traffic for many miles to the intense disgust of other motorists failed to make a turn His car catapulted through a fence and came to rest in an ' adjoining field The wasn’t hurt much As a matter of fact he may have felt right at home when he opened his eyes and found himself mired in a nice soft hog wallow Henry Shafer Eldora Iowa might well be called “The Man of Many Mishaps’ His 1934 accident consisted of a fall on an icy sidewalk which put him in bed with a broken hip It is claimed that Shafer during his 83 years has been struck by lightning buried in a coal mine fallen from a high trestle blown into the air by cannon burled under two ton? of hay fallen 30 feet over a cliff” thrown from a horse and dragged through a barbed wire fence kicked by a horse and fallen from a bob-sle- d with a fractured skull resulting Then he survived an attack of double pneumonia at 80 a stroke of paralysis at 81 and bruises and broken bones in two separate highway accidents in his 82d year road-ho- g the Matt Beaver fam-JT- A ijy Logansport Indiana three times in Dana 23 was operated on for apone day Otto 20 suffered three broken ribs pendicitis when kicked by a horse and the home burned while the family was rushing Dana to the hospital TtTISFQRTUNE hit Dr August G iiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiijiimiiiiiiiiiiK L Rindler Davenport Iowa! usually walked at night for exercise because he feared automobile traffic in the daytime He was killed when struck by a In 16 driver shortly after midnight years of blindness E A Morgan Tyler Texas peanut vendor was never bothered by traffic He suddenly gained his sight but he finds he must close his eyes now to cross the hit-and-r- street Odd baseball accidents were few in 1934 but one occurred in Winnipeg During a fast double play a ball struck Harold Bossard shortstop and knocked him unconscious Then! it ricocheted and struck Mrs Douglas Nichols a spectator Odd golf accidents were numerous as usual One golfer whittling a ball to learn what was inside found out to his sorrow The ball ex--' ploded scattering acid which all but destroyed the sight of one eye Another golfer made such a mighty swing that he threw himself to the ground landing with sufficient force to break a leg A third after making a drive on the first tee dashed toward a fence to sit down He misjudged the distance' and injured his spine in the result- o ing fall In 1932 we reported a bridge player who leaped from the table in exuberance after making a grand slam and dislocated his shoulder Last year a golfer became so elated over having sunk a long putt for a birdie that he attempted to execute a front flip The flip was a flod and he fractured his ankle His long putt one presumes was promptly forgotten NOTHER golfer was A struck by a fellow player’s club which knocked Lis bridge work down his throat Still another was making some practice shots with a pipe in his mouth The shaft of the club crashed against the pipe knocking’ it back into jus mouth and breaking out two teeth Gilding Clarke "iron man” of the British stage died from a friendly slap on the back Gaston Richard Parisian “human projectile” gave up his dangerous stunt in 1933 at the age - of 53 because he felt he was too old He But friends insisted he perform once was' more last year and he agreed He missed his 1 net by 6 inches and was killed Gabriel Bernard Parisian writer has terrified thousands with his mystery books and Last summer a boy suddenly shoved plays a paint brush under his nose Monsieur Bernard apparently mistook it for a revolver and ' died of fright Florine Lavelle defied death on the flying trapeze of "the big top” a thousand times withBut she tripped over her out serious injury pet dog at the head of a flight of stairs and died of the resulting injuries The Prince of Wales and Sophie Tucker broke into the headlines during the year with feats The Prince saved a small boy from drowning near Biarritz France and Sophie rescued a child from under the wheels of an automobile in London life-savi- ng -- MiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH 4 un o 1 |