The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-01-20
ALEXANDER'S ACCIDENT.
A Serious MIshap Befalls Him
at the Missouri Pacific
Yards.
Unused TO Travel by Rail He Gets
Under the Cars Instead of
Off Them.

When yesterday morni ngs train from
the north pulled up al the general Offices
in East Sedalia, abou; $50 o'clock, for
orders, il had on board John Ale xsnder, an
honest and unsophisticated granger from
the southwest part of Randolph county,
Missouri who started from Roanoke, Mo-,
to Fort Worth, Texas, where he expected
to locate farm IF sufficient size when i'm
proved ami developed 10 furnish each OF
his NUMEROUS progeny with a home when
he shall have passed away from lifes tit
ful arena.
He was accompanied by his wife and
seven children, the oldest a boy OF about Is
or 19 years, and the youngest babe OF but
few weeks. As is usual on the esrly
trains the poriers past through the cars
calling out get ready to change cars for
the south" This being a necessary prelim-
mary In order that the sleepy passengers
may get sufficiently aroused 10 take their
proper trains Mistaking tie call for
oae for immediate and hssty sction
and surprising thst was the place to disem-
bark, Mr. Alexander hurried his family
and baggage to the door and jumping of 10
aid them. fell with his foot under the
WHEELS Just as the cars were starting to the
Garrison House depot. His right foot was
caught and badly mangled before the train
could be stopped or The employees w-re
reilly aware Of what was transporting.
His oldest son, Who had sprung from tie
train, drew his fathers body from beneath
the cars and he was assisted back on The
train and taken to the Garrison House
from whence he was conveyed TO the hos
piial, where an examination Of his injuries
revealed severe cOntusioos of the soft part
of the foot and bad fracture of the meta
tssal bones. The surgeons however are of
the opinion that by careful treatment his
foot may be saved intact, and accordingly
dressed the wounds with view TO that
end. Mr.. Alexander's family were later in
the day taken 10 the hospital and cared for
until this morning when they resumed
their southwark journey. Mr.. Alexander
will bc kept at the hospital here until his
condition will warrant his removal, when
he will also be sent south to bis dtslina-
ton. No Dlsme attaches to the en-
plovees of the road il beng simply
and purely one of those cases brought
about by the ignorance of those unused TO
trsnsil by rail, and which the utmost care
and courteous painstsking are inadequate
to prevent.
Mr.. AlexspdeI.is 40 years of age and
has the app arsnce of ahsrd-working,s:sid
farmer, whose means are sufficient but sell
dom more than enough to maintain
his numerous family. From members
of the family the reporter Learned
that there was eleven children in all, four
OF whom, three grown sons and a daughter,
are residing pesr Aledo. Tex,s, about six
teen miles from Fort Worth, and it
was 20 join them and settle in the neigh
borhood that the present migration was
undertaken. The oldest boy, Thomas, who
is quite an intelligent young fellow, said
his brothers in Texas were Going quite well
and it was through their urgent petitions,
backed by those of his sister, who is siu-
gle and resides with them, that they were
il duced to leave Randolph county, where
they have resided the past six years.