Eureka Reporter | 1909-11-12 | Page 11 | Death is the Victor in a Furious Race Section

DEATH u 1 THE TOOR VICTOR IN 1 A FURIOUS RACE wild carrage drive through streets of ch cago fa 1 to to save man mans s life chicago death won a race in n a furious drive ti rough chicado streets to a hospital with a ding man the victim hyman had suffered two tao years from tumor of the brain his condition was so seri serf ous when dr called to see him that he ordered an operation at once he lie s id the pat ent had only one chance in a thousand of liv ng A carriage wab was ordered from a liv ery and the sick man wrapped in a blanket was placed in the kehele cle four friends accompanied him on the drive to michael reebe hosp tal it s a case of life or death said one of the men to the driver of the 1 I A t 1 7 I 1 the man Is deade exclaimed the doctor carnage get t to 0 the hospital as q ick as you can the hordes horses were lashed into a gal ga lop and the wife of the dying man watched at the curb until the carriage akas as out of sight A few minutes before nine 0 clock the tile vehicle dashed up in froat froit fro at of the hospital one of s friends leaped out and ran into the receive ng office he told the clerk that there was a man outside in a carriage who needed an immediate operation one of the staff of surgeons went out to the vehicle and on examining the mans pulse found that he was dead the man Is dead exclaimed the doctor we had hai better notify the police refusing to believe the medical man s word the carriage with its dead occupant was driven to the hahne mann med cal college about a block away here dr maclean made an ex animation and for the second time the man was pronounced dead half an hour later the carriage with the corpse in it stopped in front of the maxwell street police station just one block from where lived the four men who had ridden with him in the race of eath reath r went into the station and reported the mat ter ber to sergeant mcgeehan the body was then taken to the home of the decedent