The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-23
CRUSHED BY A LOG.
A Transfers Terrible Expert
ence in the Woods.
HIS BONES STRIPPED OF FLESH.
At the Mercy of a Runaway Team-His
Night of suffering-Pursued
by Misfortunes.

J. ". Stewart, tcamster at McGillis' logging
camp on the east shore Of Lake Washington. had
narrow escape from being crushed 10 death
Monday afternoon by large log, twenty feet
long, which was dragged across his body, crus h
ing him into the earth and stripping the flesh
from the bones from the right shoulder to the
hips. He was brought to Providence hospital
yesterday morning and given surgical treat
meut.
Stewart was driving the team which dragged
the logs from where they were felled to the lake,
distance OF half a mile, over q road
made OF skids placed about twelve
inches apart and imbedded in the
earth. He hitehed the team to a log
about twenty feet long and three to three and
half in diameter. The horses failed TO start it,
and the driver picked up stick and struck one
OF the horses sharp blow. Both animals
started with jump, throwing Stewart to the
ground. In falling he caught hold of whiffie-
tree and chung on for dear life with his right
hand. from which he had lost two fingers
short time before, the wound being only partly
healed. The horses went as If mad. jamming
the unfortunate man into the embankment
which runs along the road and causing the
workmen who witnessed the scene TO shut their
eyes in dread OF seeing stewart lose his hold to
be crushed by the log. He elung on, but the
hoofs ot.the nearest horse beat him in the face
and chest
struck by the end of the log, Stewart exerted all
his strength and threw himself across the road
face downward and between two skids. The
lower edge OF the log struck his shoulder, tear
ing the flesh to the bone. His body was pressed
into the muddy ground, and. as the log passed
over his back, it ripped flesh and muscles from
the ribs and vertebra far as the hips His
right hip was bruised but not torn. The log
passed in an incredibly short space of time and
as if by magic, Stewart came upon his feet
only to fall into the arms of Daniel McGill, who,
assisted by George Mayhem aud Wallace Bryant
carried his bleeding form TO the camp, about
q mile distant.
The men gathered about removed Stewards
clothing and did all in their power TO relieve
his suffering. They bathed him from head to
foot with arnica, but his entire body was so
terribly wrenChed that 1t did little good The
intense pain continued all night and had
abated but little when he was put aboard the
Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern train, which ar
rives in the city from Snohomish about 9:lO
O'Clock. He was taken to Providence hospital
and made easy possible. The doctors saw
that he has not suffered internal injuries, and
viii recover
This is the fourth time Stewart has been
crushed, mangled or otherwise injured since
ls76 His first experience was in Jam OF logs
on the Connecticut river. The second was on
June 10 OF the present year, when he had his
lett hip crushed while working on WILDLY
island. The next came on August H. when he
lost two fingers and part OF his right hand while
working for Biackman Il Platt, near Snohomish
He was discharged from Providence hospital
last November, and went to work one week ago
Yesterday