The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-03-14
DOCTOR O0NYERSE'S MISHAP.
STRUCK BIT A TRAIN ar TIE roof
OF SNAKE HILL.


He PlucI<sly says Hos not mach Hurs,
Knowing HIS Arm and Collar
Bone ale Broken. --Anxfously In
quIring after HIS Horse.
County Physician Charles B. Converse,
met with most serious accident last
night, which, although his life will no
doubt be preserved, will lay him up for
long time and his left arm will doubtless
have to be amputated. The doctor had
been paying his usual daily visit to the
County institutions at Snake Hill, and was
on his return to his home in this city when
the unfortunate accident occurred. He
left Snake Hill at about o'clock, and as
he was crossing the tracks OF the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Werstern Railroad at the
foot of the Hill his buggy was caught be-
tween q detached car and the train proper
of what is called flying switch train.
Tho train after the accident proceeded
distance of fifty feet before 1t was brought
to a stop, carrying the buggy with the
doctor in it along with it the entire dis
lance. The train hands went to the rescue
Immediately. They discovered that the
wagon was complete wreck, but that the
occupant was conscious.
g Doctor, you're pretty badly hurt. aren't
your asked one man.
s. No, not very badly" was the plucky
reply. know my arm is broken, and
my shoulder got pretty badly shaken up
but I'm not badly hurt"
He then anxiously inquired whether or
not his horse was killed. He was informed
that it was not hurt, but had run across the
meadows. This appeared to satisfy him.
The train hands, as speedily as possible,
sent word of the accident to the Peniten-
t;ary and summoned wagon and medical
attendance. DR.. King, the resident physl-
clan at Snake Hill, made haste to the scene
of the accident with an ambulance. Upon
arriving at the spot he made hasty exam
ination of the injured man, and discovered
that he had received compound fracture
of the left collar bone, and that his left
arm was so frightfally shattered at the
elbow that amputation will in all
probability be required. After his
wounds had been dressed, Doctor
Converse requested to be driven at
once to the residence of Hon. Orestes
Cleveland, on Wayne street, and his request
was complied with. He arrived there at
1880. A large number of the doctors
friends awaited his arrival, among them
DR.. Hunt, who assisted DR.. King In the
treatment of the case. In the meantime
two kilograms had been received at the
house where DR.. Converse has his of1ce,
on Montgomery street; FIRST that the doc
tor had been struck by q train, and later
that he had broken arm and had received
serious internal injuries, and to have
everything in readiness for his recep-
tion. 1t is unnecessary to say tat
the instructions were carried out TO
the letter. and several gentlemen
were anxfsusly anticipating the arrival OF
the patient. The report of the accident
spread all over the city like wildhre and
men all around down town were sPecula-
ting as to the cause and magnitude OF the
accident, and it was source OF universal
satisfaction that the doctors life had been
spared. 1t is noteworthy fact that the
doctor was driving strange horse from
McCabe's livery stable. He had left his
own horse In the stable TO rest