Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-11-15 | Page 6 | Niels Hansen Has His Fingers Cut off by an Engine

NIELS HANSEN HAS MS FINGERS COT OFF BY AN ENGINE Jiels Hansen of 319 Patterson avenue, ave-nue, a baggageman at the Union Depot, De-pot, had Iho fingers of botliJ hands :rashed off yesterday morning under the wheels nf a lrvnnmrtH n ntfnnhn to Oregon Short Lino train No. 21. The accident occurred at 8: -15 a'clock, about 100 yards south of the main entrance to the union passenger station. sta-tion. He had been loading some baggage bag-gage onfo a train which was being put in readiness to depart ifrom the station and, It is presumed, stepped around the end of the last car and walked in front of train No. 21, which was pulling into the station from Salt Lake City on track No. 3. There was only two eyewitnesses to tho accident, as far as could be learned today, one a passenger on . i No. 21 and the other, Engineer Ben-' nett, of the same train. The engineer . saw Hansen just as the -pilot of the , engine struck him, and tho 3tate? ment of tho passenger had uot been . taken by tho railroad officials niak-. ing the Investigation up to a late hour1 this afternoon. It Is presumed, how-' i ever, that the baggageman either did k . not notico the oncoming train until' he got in its patch and then turned back to get clear of It or that, not'. ) noticing, walked against tho engine, f. Ho was knocked to tho concrete plac- form and, in falling, clutched his1; : hands over the west rail. His heart . was bruised and only the thumbs ere ) t left on his hands when the engine '- t passed over him. I He was picked up and rushed to tuey Dee hospital, where he was attended f- by Dr. R. S. Joyce. Today his con-'. dition was reported to be quite seri- - ous, owing: to the nervous shock and X loss of blood. J i