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Show FALLS- THHBUGH Paul Deschanel . Suffers Scratches and Bruises in Curious Accident Stubborn window is ; blamed for mishap Executive Surprises Trapk-Walker Trapk-Walker With Announcement Announce-ment of Nane and Title MONTARGIS, France, May 2L Paul Efeschanel, president of .the French republic, fell from a window of his train when it was a short distance from here last night. The train was moving at the time, but after his fall M. Deschanel walked a mile and a quarter In the darkness until ho met a track worker. xuu nuiuuinu hjjui juuit:u luu .president, to a signaL-.statlon nearby. . .andt q1 ejjhpnjsdj th Jsc. II .tor;.anau tomobile which arrived within half an hour. Meets Track Worker. When he approached the track worker, tho injured man said: "I was on the presidential train and fell out of It while it was moving, j That which will 'surprise you more, however, is the fact that I am Mon- sieur Deschanel, president of the republic." re-public." j M. Deschanel, upon his arrival here, i received first medical attention soirfc ; two or three hours afier the accident. Physicians found he had suffered no injuries sufficient to cause anxiety, al-l though he was bruised and lacerated, j As a precautionary measure, antl-; tetanus scrum was injected by a sur- geon. President Explains. President Deschanel explained thati he had been unable to sleep because ' of the heat and that, about eleven' j o'clock last night he tried to open ai (window to-secure more ventilation. I j The window stuck and M. Deschanel j said he applied all his strength toj !open it. Then suddenly the window i gave way and he pitched out of the' I car onto the track, tho train going on. I The president had suffered a se-! vere attaclc of grippe Saturday night,! and It had been questioned for a timei if the journey to Monbrisson, where1 he was io dedicate a monument to I Senator Reymoud, a French aviator, twho was killed during the war. should, jnot be cancelled. The president, how-' lover, had insisted upon making thel Journey. Deschanel III. It was because of his illness that) all the wJndows of tho presidential compartment had been tightly closed. At noon today it was announced that the president's condition was as satis-i satis-i factory as possibly could be. The doc-jtors doc-jtors had found scratches on his face, hands and legs and some bruises on the body but no 'injury of a serious na-i na-i lure. ! In telling of his experiences after his fall. President Deschanel said he found that he had been greatly shaken shak-en up and was bleeding from some of his injuries. Ho satisfied himself, however, that no bones wore broken and -then followed painfully after the train on foot. The president was attired at-tired only In his pajamas and was barefooted bare-footed and bareheaded as, in his injured in-jured condition, he plodded along tho railway. Falls Into Sand. Fortunately tho train was running at a comparatively slow speed when the president fell, antl tho executive chanced to fail Into a bed of sand. When M. Deschanel reached Mon-targls Mon-targls ho Insisted upon telephoning personally to his wife in Paris that ho was not badly Injured. Meanwhile tho special train was speeding along oil its way, and it was not until half an hour before tho train was duo to arivo at its destination that tho disappearance of tho president was discovered. Tho president's valet knocked at tho presidential compartment. compart-ment. Hearing no response, ho openod tho door, finding tho compnrtment empty and a window open. Vnlct Bewildered. Tho hewildercd valet ran through tho train shouting "The president has c:s-appeared." c:s-appeared." On tho train was a considerable con-siderable staff attendant upon the president and sovoral secretaries. Tho dismayed members of the party held a consultation as soon as they could collect themselves- Tho train then was almost at "Monbrlson, andthe consul- tatlon continued until the destination had been reached. IH A great crowd had assembled at Monbrlson to greet the president, nnd a notablo body of officials, with a guard of honor and a band, had gath-ercd gath-ercd about the red carpot spread on the station platform whore the cxe-cutivo cxe-cutivo was to bo received. President Arrhics. tn the meantime, President Doa-Chanel Doa-Chanel had succeeded in reaching Mon-targls, Mon-targls, and tho deputy prefect there telegraphed to Monbrison, giving the barest outlino of tho president's ad-venture ad-venture and reporting him safe. Tho crowd qulotly dispersed. M. Deschanel's physicians at noon issued tho following communique: "Tho president was slightly wounded IH in tho faco and loft leg. His condi- IH tion is as satisfactory as possible and causes no anxiety." It is possible tho president will IH board tho special train which is rc-turning rc-turning from Monbrlson, although lie strongly expressed the wish to return to Paris by automobile Meantime, Madamo Djeschanel Is momentarily ex-pected ex-pected to arrive. "M. Deschanel's plans for the roturn to Paris, however, will depend upon the decision of his phy, IH siclans. |