OCR Text |
Show SWITCHMAN HAS HIS RIGHT I LEG MANGLED; AMPUTATION I NEAR HIP WILL BE NECESSARY I C. H, Schaeffer, 24 years, an employee em-ployee of the Ogden Union Railway & Depot. company, had his right leg badly mangled this afternoon at about 12:30 o'clock in the local railroad yards when caught between two cars. His left leg was also badly Injured. Amputation Ampu-tation of the right leg near the hip will probably have to be resorted to. Dr. R. S. Joyce attended the injured man at the Dee hospital. Just how the nccldont occurred could not be ascertained this afternoon, after-noon, as no statement had been made by the victim who was alone when It occurred. Schaeffer was not completely complete-ly alone at his work, but no other person was close at hand and there was no eye-witness to the accident. It Is presumed, from the circumstances, circum-stances, that the man was trying to adjust a coupling knuckle, as he had gone between two cars that ho was attempting at-tempting to couple together. Evidently the cars were moved, while he was between be-tween them, and he was knocked down and thrown under the moving wheels before he was able to get clear, fie was conscious when found but was too weak to mako a statement, although he said that he had gone between 1 1 e cars and was knocked down. Both legs of the man were mangled to such an extent that they will probably prob-ably have to be amputated. It may be possible to savo tho left leg, whkl was not so badly injured as the other. The wheels of the car passed over the legs of the man. injuring the left belov, the knee and the right leg from th ankle to the hip The right leg was mere pulp for several inches near the ankle and tho thing was also so badly bad-ly maneled that it is doubtful If it can Jjl be saved. The men was found shortly afterward, after-ward, his absence being noted when ho did not give a signal, by his comrades com-rades and a call for an ambulance and a doctor sent out at once. The Kirken-dall Kirken-dall ambulance was called to the scene of the accident, which occurred about the center of the local yards and between be-tween Twenty -seventh and Twenty-eighth Twenty-eighth streets. When the ambulance driver arrived no doctor had yet reached the scene and the driver began be-gan to cut away the clothing from the injured partB. Dr. R. S. Joyce was called on the case and ordered the injured man rushed to the hospital where treatment treat-ment was administered. At the hospital hos-pital it was discovered that the case, while very serious, was not necessarily necessar-ily fatal. Schaeffer was married about a year H ago to an Ogden girl who Is now in H dejieate health. They moved recent- H ly to a number in the 200 block on H Twenty-eighth street. Schaeffer was H m experienced switchman and had been In the employ of the local com- H pany since last October He and his v.ife recently made a trip east as I sightseers. They just returned a few I lays ago and he rosumcd his work in the yards. H |