| Show FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ammon green sen thrown from a wagon and seriously injured all the readers of the standard in weber county and the numerous friends of mr ammon Green the well known and highly esteemed selectman for weber county will be pained to learn of a serious accident that napp happened ened to that gent gentleman lemau in box elder bafton on the eth dinst the unfortunate circumstance occurred as follows on tuesday morning last may ath mr aulmon ammon green left his bid home at west weber and started northward with the intention and for the purpose of looking after the interests of his shee sheep p herd which is located west of washakie was h akie bakie in this county arriving at brig h haro am city mr green turned eastward war d and went to mantua and there made arrangements for the shearing of his bis sheep in tile the near f future he then started on his return down box elder canon aaion chehad he had a good team and wagon 0 u all went well till he reached a point about half a mile above the mouth of the he was traveling quite last fast on descending a hill in the road one of the traces of one of the animals came unfastened the animal leaped forward and the tongue of the wagon dropped and ran into the bank and broke the sudden jerk and stop threw mr green about twenty feet forward where he struck the ground with his forehead the force of the fall cut his scalp nearly off and before the wagon stopped one of the wheels struck him and passed over his right side the accident occurred about 6 pm and nd when the unfortunate mas man recovered his bis senses a little 4 he started as he be supposed tows towards ads brigham but in the darkness dar kneas of the night be turned and went about half a mile in the wrong direction when he turned again and crept blow slowly y towards town by 11 at night he reached the residence of the miller of the box F elder floering flouring flou ring mill this journey ol of about three fourths of 0 a mile from the place where the accident occurred took him aim about four hours by this time mr green was nearly dead from exhaustion and loss of blood the family ot of the miller M C L jensen kindly took him in and did all ali they could to alleviate his great sufferings and at once sent for dr davidson who arrived as quickly as possible the doctor was almost sickened at the horrible sight presented before him mr greens head was swollen almost to td the size of two ordinary heads beads tile the right closed entirely by bv the swelling and clotted blood the boor poor man was immediately put to bed and the doctor proceeded to sew up the these pal drawing it into its proper pla ce e r green manifested almost A lr iro I 1 during the operation and ref M be placed under chloroform the ing of the wounds and the stitch stitching chin ng occupied about three hours during which extremely painful perica period the patient occasionally uttered a groan roan but otherwise bore it bravely after which he requested the doctor to extract a tooth that had bad been loosened by the accident this manifestation of sr grit almost staggered all woo were in attendance early yesterday morning a telegram tele eram was sent to the family amily of mr green but owing to some delay in delivering deliver ins the message the news was not received by the family till 1130 am mrs green and one ot of her sons started immediately for the bedside of the injured man but did not arrive till five since which time they have done all they could to relieve the husband and father dr davidson Dav ldson ts still att attending epding him aim and strong strona hopes are at present entertained for his bis ultimate recovery remarkable to state the skull was not fractured neither were any bones broken ogden standard |
