Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-05-17

Learning that St. Martin was residing
in Duttousville, in Cavenish, with med.
ical friend We rode down to see him. We
found him in one Of the tenement houses
Of Mr.. Whipple, the present proprietor
Of the Fallcrton factory. His fl mily are
operatives in the factory, and the old man
is still able to labor part of the time
But the day we visited him he was feeling,
as he said, badly, being troubled for breath.
He entertained US very civilly, answering
our Inquiries without hesitation, in an in
telligent manner. -.
While the Rutland & Burlington r. r.
was in process Of construction, in 1S47
and 1S4S, it was our fortune to be pres
ent when Dir. ] NJ. Harlow and DR.. Ed.
ward II. Williams dressed the wound Of
Mr.. Gage, after the iron bar, feet 6
inches in length, and ] / inches in dame
ter, had been driven upward its entire
length through Cages head and BRAIN
We took care Of and watched for many
Sleepless nights by the bedside Of Gage,
until he finally recovered and as we
looked upon St. Martin and thought upon
Gage, we could but compare the two cases
the most remarkable on record with
many others where the slightest accidents
often prove fatal.
But to return to St. Martin. In ans
wer to inquiries, he informed us that he
was now 81 years old that when II years
old he was at Fort Michilimackinac in
Michigan, and while conversing with some
one in the Office, bystandcr took up
musket which was in one corner of the
room, and in careessness discharged the
the piece, the shot entered his back below
the left shoulder, and came out below the
heart on his left side, producing a sensa-
tim like that Of sndden severe blow
, His first impulse was to turn and deal
blow at the head of his supposed assailant,
but Immediately found his strength gone
and he sank to the floor, attendants placed
him upon a lounge near at hand, when
= Dr. Beaumont, the U. S. Surgeon at the
! station, was called who dressed his wounds
D and for long time watched over and
! cared for him as a father would have
= done.
He said Dr. Beaumont cut off a piece
of his liver which was mangled by the
shot, and removed portions of his stomach
n in the region Of his heart; that after q
t very long time he was able to sit up
q walk about, and finally was able to work
= that he has had two wives and six chill
4 dren-that at ono time he travelled with
S the Dr., who exhibited him to the public,
= and fried various experiments upon him,
though he never received much money
. from his exhibitions, and is now poor.
Our friend asked him if he had any
G objection of showing his wound, he was
y not quite willing, aud yet unbuttoned his
vest and removing cloth exposed his left
breast and side, a ghasty view, with aeshy
$ protdbcrance larger than hens egg pro-
Il ecting from his Stomach in the frightful
hollow in his side. AS he did SO, and
Z breathed, the air passed in and out at the
4 cavity With the ghrglihg sound Of escaping
}. wind.
:. q st. Martin is a small, sallow looking
and evidently Frehchman, speaking En-
y glish, but has passed, us he says, most Of
: his life in Canada and among his people.
II At times it has distressed him very
r much to breathe-and who wonders Of
ten in the night he is obliged to arise
n from his bed, and in an upright position
e Of the body seek that relief which hor-
e izoutal one fails to afford. And yet this
y strange fortuned man, from his statements
and appearance must have performed a
t. great deal of labor in the fifty years of
/. his mutilated life.
We do not speak Of him in a medical
or scientific point of view, but leave that
D. to the treatment Of our attendant at the
. time, .t3Uei1p IL sgb,7tmfJ
y Mr.. Gage, before spoken Of, lived some
ID 10 or u years after his recovery and
n- travelled over the country considerably
re We think ho weut to South America and
was able to do some business, but was al
n was more irritable and quick tempered,
soto speak, aud of aweaker mind than
bofore,the accident We met him but a
few times, and then he always boasted Of
y the exploit and said he should carry his
= tapping iron with him as long as he
liyedNau sdl 80 sidy1 10 esogsih iiW ba
Besmeared with the mans brains, as
we saw il 22 years ago at the hotel, then
q kept by Joseph Adams, in Cavepdish, it
sr was an ugly looking idea to hare in ones
m head. 4sd,ssg veyysH bfa ss4sR not
IL We are informed that, he died in Cali
J. fornia, and that DR. Harlow has obtained