Show SKUll IS SPLIT WHEN liT HIT BY TRAIN Republican Special Service Am American Fork rork June 27 Struck by bya a passenger nger train on the Denver Rio Ulo Grando Grande tracks at midnight Sam Sm Kerns Is la now nosy tying lying at his homo home his skull fractured from forehead to the tho base Kerna Kerns Is making tho the best of ot a a. fighting chance chanco for tor his life lite and physicians sa say ho has more than a 11 possibility of at winning Ho HoVas was Vas seen n about 11 last Jaet night near the tho railroad crossing and just what happened between that time and 6 o'clock this morning when ho wa wali found unconscious beside the tracks no one knows kno Ho He was discovered by bythe bythe bythe the section crow on their way to work and taken talen to tho the courthouse where Dr Robertson was called rolled to dress his wounds The Tho fracture of or tho the skull extended from tram the tho middle of ot his forehead forehead forehead fore fore- head at nt the hair line Uno to the back ol ot othis his ne neck k and after removing pieces lleces ol ot bono bone the wound was closed with li 18 stitches Another nother wound on his forehead forehead forehead fore fore- head took six stitches Kerns regained consciousness long enough to say he was struck by a atrain atrain train and ho remembered trying to torise torise torise rise and call for help several se times inthe In Inthe the tho night lIe He has hns a wife and several so small children lu American Fork Pork |