Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-29

There are cases on record, there were
many of them during the war of the re-
belliOn-in which men were repeatedly
hurt so that death appeared inevitable.
No sooner would they recover from one
apparently mortal wound than they
would receive another. The Hartford
Times not long ago published story
that was widely copied of a man whose
history was told by himself to cores
pondent in Michigan, and whose person
al appearance bore out his story, so the
correspondent said. He claimed that his
troubles began when he was only five
years old, when he fell through the roof
of a shed, breaking all his ribs, both col
lar bones, his breast bone, his right arm
in two places, his left arm above the ell
bow, and the bones of his left hand It
was thought that he could not recover,
but he did. Ten years later his hip was
dislocatcd twice in the same year, and
his right ankle was broken. In 1856 he
was shot in the ankle in fight on a
Mississippi steamboat. During this time
he had had Asiatic cholera, yellow fever,
and, in Central America, the spotted
fever. This last disease stayed with him
four months, and peeled him like a
snake" 1t was not until the war broke
out however, that this remarkable man
had full play for his talents. Joining
the army he was bayoneted in the left
knee in the battle of Gainesville, and cap.
| turcd by the confederates. During his
: imprisonment Of three months he was sun.
struck, and afterward nearly starved to
death, and was paroled when his captors
supposed him to be without the ability tc
do further service. In a long march the
veins OF his left leg burst, and he almost
died Of hcmorrhage. At Chancelors-
vile he was knocked down bya spen,
| cannon ball, and while lying PROSTATE
he was run over by a field piece of six
pound calibre which passed directly ovel
his body. After recovering again anC
| getting his discharge he undertook one
! day to cut down a tree, and by not un
common accident the butt of the tree flew
up as the tree fell, and this man stand
ing IN the way, as was to have been ex
! pcctcd Of a man Of his habits, was knock
cd a distance, lie says, Of forty feet. II.
| lay on the snow inscnsible for eight hour
and Oh getting his senses again fount
| that his skull was broken and his brains
! leaking out, and that eight of his teetl
were gone. IN three months he was Ell
tircly wcll-tl.at is, all that was left of
lin, but in handling some blasting pow
der he managed to ignite it and the loss
OF one eye was the consequence. These
| were the principal accidents this man re
lated, but he said he had many minor
ones. In spite OF all he had beer
through he was well;and claimed to b.
ready to fight any man of his age ant
weight but complained that mis- blood wa
SO Tin that he was unable 10 keep warn
even in summer. In oldcn times such
man would have been thought by tn
s,lpcrstitiOns to be destined for the gal
lows, hut there is some question whethe
! hanging would be a successful operation
Whether the story is tr,R or not, it i
I'll possible, and there is nothing in
.hst cannot he duplicated in the mcdica
record, except the fact that SO many &C
cidents haN1cncd 10 the same person.