Show THE RECE REGENT NT ACCIDENT elsewhere will be found an all announcement no of the death of alexander Z smith the unfortunate transient who had bad both his limbs almost severed from his body by being run over by a railroad car at the depot on oil thursday in ili alluding to the lamentable case yesterday we gave the reason for the surgeons not performing an opera operation fion upon him being that euch such was impracticable in the absence of a reaction from the g shock to the system from the accident to have attempted an operation would have been certain death and it is needless to state that the same result was mas inevitable in the absence of a reaction I the demise odthe of the patient being conclusive elusive upon that point tho the course of the surgeons surgeons drs condon and carnahan in refraining from front a course that would have hastened the death ot of the unfortunate man involving a gra grave ve responsibility was eminently proper As U in all similar cases gases indicating the process of dissolution formed in the mans system ren rell deri deringis ngit almost impossible forbid to swallow when lie took any liquid into his mouth it was by this in internal condition generally forcibly ejected the patient was placed upon a board on which was laid a goatskin in order th eliat at the noxious cx ex uda tiona from his body I might not be absorbed and sour under him as would have been the case me with most other materials pads were nere also placed under those per portions of the body exposed to tb the gre greatest adest pressure from its position positron we are thus particular in giving details of the case from the fact of r some persons who were not aware of the scientific reasons for there beir being igno no surgical operation performed on the patient being inclined n to throw some blame upon the surgeon who had charge of the case and the gentleman he lie called in to assist him these gentlemen ell however stand too ilig high I I in ill their profession to be materially affected by adverse allusions illusions of that kind their course in tile premises would be approved by the tile highest surgical authorities in the country we also took occasion yesterday to allude to the commendable attention of mayor herrick in tile case in question in the same connection wo lye may state that the kindness of mr Thomp thompson soll the tile proprietor c of the premises in which vilich i the unfortunate man ma n was placed paced after the accident is worthy of mention on as well as the attention given to tile patient by a number of men who waited upon him A PRIVATE MESSAGE from fron albany t the timo of going to pr press ess informs us that miller has h bee been elected by tile new york legislature U S senator for forthe the long 1019 term vice T C platt |