The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-07-11
for my feet so l could prize myself out.

A woman near me cried out for her little
1 girl, and with my left hand, which was
uninjured, succeeded in releasing her
from the mud SO she could sit up, and |
called for help. Two men soon appeared
and helped us from the ehasm. For one
hour the ballast between the two tie
was my bed and the iron rail my pillow.
In reaching this position of comparative
/ ease and luxury we had to wade through
mud waist deep. Here I watched the
horrible spectacle of the flames CON
Stunning the eight cars and the human
victims of the fearful wreck The shock
1 was tremendous and simply indescriba-
/ BILE, and to this / attribute the absence
| of the groans and cries which are usually
4 heard at such catastrophes. The train
was speeding along at the rate of forty
miles an hour, and without moments
| went down into the washout. | think
the concession killed every passenger
who cannot be accounted for among the
living. They passed from life to death
in the twinkling of an eye, many of
them wrapped in slumber.
1 No, did not get out of the sleeper; it
got from around me in some inexplicable
manner. There were nine passengers in
all in the sleeper, and | learn that sew
eral of them are missing. | occupied
the middle sleeper, and the rear car re-
manned on the track, but was consumed
by the flames
Their terrible disaster developed heroes
and heroines; men and women worked
to rescue passengers from the wreck, afl
unconscious that they were almost in
mans primeval state as to apparel. |
will leave to-day for Charlestown, W.
Va, where | will spend the night with
my sister, and go to Baltimore to-mor
row if my strength holds out.
Rev. Collins Denny, of Salem, an old
Baltimorean, was notified by the Herald
of Bishop Wilson's injuries and came
down and nursed him until he was placed
ON the train for home.
Several of the passengers speak in
terms of the highest praise of Misses
Payne, of Knoxville, Annie Fitzhugh
and Edith Hardister, of Baltimore, and
Irene Jackson for their heroic conduct at
the scene of their disaster. They bathed
the faces of the wounded with water
and did all they possibly could to make
the sufferers comfortable. The pelting
rain and chilly air was very disagreeable,
but they did not falter, even deprived
themselves of blankets they had thrown
around their shoulders when they found
a sufferer who had been chilled by ex-
posure The railroad company should
present them with testimonial
Foreign Bodies in the Stomach.
From the Therapeutic Gazette
A method of treatment of foreign
bodies in the stomach, which appears to
be generally known and practiced with
almost uniform success in both England
and the continent, consists in the admin
istration simply of large amounts of po-
tatoes, to which the diet should be re-
stricted 1t is stated by Professor Cam
eron, of Glasgow, that this plan, which,
so far as we know, is almost unknown in
this country, originated with the Lon
don pickpoekets, whose custom it is to
Immediately swallow small articles of
jewellery acquired in the pursuit of their
profession, and then depend on their re-
covery through the evacuation which
follows the abundant use of the potato
diet. Several eases are on record where !
this method has proved eminently sue
cessful. Thus, DR.. Salzer Deutsche Med |
izinal ZeitWug for January "a, 1889 re- |
ports the case of child who had swal- |
lowed a brass weight of three hundred |
grains in September, 1887, and in whom |
the physician was on the point OF ~
forming gastrotomy. According to DR..
Salzer's advice the child was put in bed,
kept on his right side, so as to facilitate
the passage through the pylorus, and
then fed with as much potato, prepared
in different methods to stimulate the APP
petite, as he could be persuaded to take /
In five days the foreign body was evac-
uated in the faces. He also refers to IA
case of a person who had swallowed a
set of artificial teeth, and another who
had swallowed a breast pin one and "a
half inches in diameter, in both of which /
cases the foreign bodies We're removed |
without difficulty.
At the meeting of the society of ply |
sicians in Vienna, at which the above |
cases were reported, the discussion which |
they stimulated led to the report of seve-
raj other cases, one especially, by Hoch-
enegg, which is especially remarkable in
that it dealt with the case of young |
who in 1884, swallowed long |
nail, which was removed by gastrotomy. !
Two years later the patient was so I'M
fortunate as to swallow second nail
similar in all respects to the first. The
potato cure was employed, and the nail
was secured after nine davs. In the |
Deutsche Medizinal Zeitung for March II,
1889, DR.. Deichmullen refers to a case of |
a younss girf, ten years OF age, who had |
swallowed a pin. Pain was
of under the breastbone, and |
DR.. Deichmuller, acting on the sugges-
ton acquired through the report of the
ttOONC ooSCo. lSatfletat tIiC Ittlcuoe W
the natata Diet Very shortly afterward |
the pain disappeared from the chest and
was felt in the stomach. Six days later |
it appeared in the right inguinal region;
two days subsequently, having Increased |
in severity, it was felt in the left inguinal
region, while in the evening of this day
the foreign body was evacuated with the |
erces.
1t is hardly necessary for us to call at
tention to the principles upon which this
method is based, Potatoes, as is well /
known, are composed of nearly twenty
per cent, of carbohydrates eighty per
cent. of the solids being starch and eel
luose. On account of this large amount
of carbohydrate, great portion will re-
sist the action of the digestive juices.
The cellulose and other carbohydrates
greatly in volume from imbi-
bition with water, lead to an accumula-
hon of an immense amount of indigest-
BILE residue; consequently the intestinal