The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-08-06
Terrible Wounds that Did Not Prove Fafni

ST. Joseph Is at present somewhat worked
uD over a couple OF interesting cases which
will serve as remarkable Instances OF escape
from death even under the most adverse and
unfavorabc circumstances. The escape OF
President Garfield from death at the end OF
the assassin's bullet is indeed strange and some
what remarkable, but the nature OF his wounds,
considered with those Of whom we are about
to speak, are but slight. The parties have
both lived so long since their injuries were
received that their ultimate recovery is now
placed among the strong probabilities.
Anton Welte, a man about fifty years OF age,
and a workman at Moorby & Fink's boot and
shoe factory, on Tuesday week last attempted
to take his life by shooting himself. How he
had tired of living through long series OF
domestic difficulties, we have told before.
Now to tie facts concerning his remarkable
escape from successful termination Of his
suicidal purpose. Neitc fired four shots, all
of which took effect within an inch OF the cen.
ire OF the forehead. The Whereabouts ct three
! of these were traced. One was lmbcddcu IN
the substance of the frontal bone, little TO the
! left of the middle line, another passed up un
der the soft parts, along the bone to the LETT
| frontal eminence. These two were extracted,
The third passed through the frontal bone INTO
the substance of the right anterior lobe OF the
brain. 1t entered at a point about veeighths
of an inch to the right of the middle line and
paSSed in a direction through the brain WhicA
would lead 1t Il little to The right and in front
Of the center of the base Of the brain. 1t 10
| impossible to say whether the fourth entered
the same hole or struck the skull and glanced
out. The nature OF his wounds, 1t will be seen,
is such that hardly one IN hundred could
have escaped death. To-day will he his
twelfth day, and yet he is rational ana dong
well. He is up and about his room, and it Is
the opinion of his medical attendant, DIR. Da-
Wis, that he will recover.
The above Is certainly a most remarkable
escape frcm the very jaws of DEATH but 1t
scarcely approXmates in strangeDess to that
of Frank Kemp, now at the hospital of the ST.
Joseph Medical College. This case hasn't a
parallel in the history of Our city, and few, II
any in the history OF surgery Kemp Is an
! Indiana lad, eighteen years oil age. lie had
been out west, and tlring of western life was
seeking once more his native lloosler heath
when the accident occurred He got on q
train of the st. Joseph 81 Western at Hanover,
intending to steal his way to 81. Joseph, and
rode IN safety TO Elwo0d. There he fell from
his hidng.place on the trucks and was run
over and irlghtfully manged and crushed by
the cars He was picked up in an insensiblc
condition and conveyed to this city and quar-.
tered at the hospital of the ST Joseph Medical
College, where he has been ever since. HIS
lower extremities were frigMfully crushed,
and presented CHASTITY spectacle. His right
leg was amputated above the knee and his left
leg at the knee. One of his arms was fright.
fully shattered, one ear was cut OFT, and his
nose cut half off A couple OF his ribs were
crushed in aud others laid bare, the skin be-
ing taken off while the body was being dragged
over the rough railroad ties. He received a
Islxinch cut across the scalp, and innumerahe
bruises about the head, face, and in fact, all
parts OF the body. it was thought when he
could reach this city That was on the Morn
ing of June 10 Tomorrow 1t will be amonth
since the accident, and he still lives, with fair
prospects for final recovery.-St Joe (Mo)
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