Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-20 | Page 6 | Switchman Loses Feet |

Type	issue
Date	1915-01-20
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Switchman Loses Feet
Type	article
Date	1915-01-20
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
Page	6
OCR Text	Show SWITCH MAN LOSES FEET. Pocatello. Ida.. Jan. 19 Russe! Eelsted, a switchman in the Oreogn Short Line yards, was run over while BWltching freight cars while at work this morning, both feet being so badly bad-ly rushed that amputation was found necessary. In signaling to bis engi- neer, Feb. ted stepped back upon a second track, unconscious of the ap proach of a string of cars being backed into the siding He was knocked down and two of the cars passed over hi feet, which were amputated am-putated by Surgeon Roberts of the railroad company. Foisted lias been In the service of the railroad company for more than two years. He is a son of Daniel i Felsted. night police officer, and is popular in the community. It is believed be-lieved that he has a chance to survive) if complications do not occur. er
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