Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-02
LIVING WITH A BROKEN NECK.

Remarkable Case of a Man Recovering From a Double Dfslocation of the l Neck.
 l OIL CITY, Jan. Tt isn't often that man can fall and break his neck and live to 1 toll it. Surgical history furnishes nine cases 1 in which men with dislocated necks were l treated, eight of which proved successful, the men living to green old age. General ly though when man falls and breaks his neck, or when the sheriff takes hand in the job, it is pretty sure to prove fatal. Nickle- vile is 8 small town in Venango county and it is not far from Oil City. On Saturday last Mir. P. O. Myers of that place was out riding on horseback. The animal became frightened and threw MT. Myers violently off his back. The ground was hard. hilly and frozen and when help came along In the shape of two farmers Mir. Myers lay para lyzed in the road His head hung limp and lifeless and swung around as if 1t was on hinges. He was taken home. There the discovery was made that his neck was dislocated. Drs. Wallace of East Brady and Clover of Salem were called.
 They soon found out that Myers neck WAS dislocated in two places There was only one treatment available, the doctors said, and that was to reduce the dislocated bones. Myers was told that this was his only chance, and the information was imparted that the operation was more than likely to prove fatal. Myers realized that he couldn't live long any way with his neck broken in two places and was perfectly willing for the doc tors to experiment on him. A big sponge loaded with chloroform held under his nose sent him into the land of dreams. It took over an hour to replace the ruptured bones of the
 &1 act as though he was going to live. Since then he has seemed to gain in strength daily and if he keeps on improving will astonish the medical world by living. His body, which was paralyzed from.the start, is recu~ perating from the shock. He has not yet re- gained the use of his arms and legs, but they are sensible to the touch, and he can move his fingers slightly.
 The doctors now believe that Myers will pull through. If he lives it will be the only known case on record in this or any otEer country where a man has had the good luck to live after sustaining double dislocation of the neck.
 A TRAMP's WONDERFUL NERVE. Dragging Himself to a Place Where
 His Legs Could be Ampurated.
 DUBOIS, Jan. 1.-Jeremiah Grosh, an em- ploye of the Ridgway and Clearfeld railroad,
 
 nights ago he was awakened by the sound of sowe one calling as if in distress. Grosh jumped out of bed and saw by the dim light of the gas at the corner man lying on the ground near the depot. The man struggled to nearly an erect position and then fell as If in 8 fit. Grosh dressed himself and went out to help the man, but he was nowhere to be seen. Grosh was up early the next morn- ing and on his way to the depot discovered trail of blood leading away from the spot where he had seen the man in the night. The trail led around thu depot and up the railroad track for more than an eighth of a mile, where it left the track and went in the direction of house across the street. It led up four steps to the stoop of the house, where there was pool of blood which had evidently formed while the person from whom it streamed had been knocking at the door for admittance. The bloody trail came down the steps again, and stained the sidewalk for block further on, where it went up flight of steps and there ended These second stairs led to the en- trance of hotel, and Grosh went in to learn the cause of the long track of blood. He found that it had been made by frightfully injured tramp. The unfortunate man had climbed to the bumper of freight car in a
  stealing 8 ride northward. The car he was on was the ninth car from the rear of the train. The night was cold and stormy. When the train was passing throu yh Ridg- way tue tramp had become so benumbed with exposure that he could retain his hold on his perilous perch no longer and he fell off bet1 the cars. Eight cars passed over his legs, leaving them hanging in mangled mass of flesh and broken bones from the knees down. No one had seen the accident. The tramp dragged himself to the depot a distance of mors than hundred yards It was late and no one was about. He called for help and tried to raise himself up, but his mangled stumps refused to bear him. It was at that moment that he was seen by Grosh. By the time the latter had reached the spot the wounded tramp had dragged himself back around the de- pot and was crawling on his ter rible journey for aid elsewhere. At the house where his trail first led he had knocked and called for help, but could get no response At the hotel he made himself heard and was taken in. It was two hours before doctor could be obtained. In all that time the sui fering tramp never once lost consciousness or betrayed his agony by single moan or com plaint Two doctors finally arrived, and both of the legs were amputated. The injured man refused to take an anesthetic, and watched the removal of his mangled limbs with as tonishing coolness and without murmur. The doctors who attended him say there IS no record of u case of more wonderful nerve and endurance on the part of person so dread fully wounded as this tramp was. At last accounts the man was doing well.
 The Christian Secretary in New Hands
 HARTFORD, Jan. 1.-The Rev. Dr. Dryden Phelps, editor and proprietor of tho Chris tian Secretary, has sold the paper to Rev. C.. A. Piddock of Middletown, Ct. The Secre- tary is one of the oldest Baptist papers in the