The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-01-23
IT WAS A SURGEONS CASE.
FIREMAN ALMSBLAD HAD FALLEN
INTO IHE HOLD or THE YUC4JAN.
DR.. Fitzpatrick Refused Three Times to
Take Him to Chambers street Hospital
He Died I'm Bellevue. to which ne had
been Sent from tho TO,nbs Police Court.

been Sent from tho To,nbs Police Court.
call was received ut tho Chambers Street
Hospital ut $40 o'clock on Thursday night for
an ambulance to como to Pier 1B. Fast River.
aud an ambulance was scnt In charge Of DIR.
Fitzpatrick. When tho surgeon arrived he
found crowd surrounding tho limp figure OF
man whose face was confused and bleeding.
Tho injured man was Wilfrd Almsblad.
Swede. 20 years old. who was employed rs
fireman OH the Ward line steamship Yucatnn.
now lying at Pier lG. Almsblad and Rudolph
Bruss. a sailor. went ashore to see the town.
Almsbad returned to the ship alone about
o'clock. and fell through tho open hatchway
into the hold. n distance Of IL feet.
Ambulance Surgeon Fitzpatrick pronounced
1t n case OF alcoholism and confusion OF the
eyes and nose He refused to take tho wounded
man. and the ambulance drove AWAY. Almsblad
wns taken to the Old slip station half uncon-
scious and groaninG As his grooming kept on
another ambulance cali to the hospital. DE- Dr..
Fitzpatrick responded made an examination.
and again refused to take the wounded man.
AZ . o'clock yesterday morning the Sergeant
Fitzpatrick responded. Thu officers at tho tn,
station say that when the Doctor found that
he h, had d. been called to SOC the same patient q
to make an examination of AimsIlad.
Later in the morning tho injured man waa
half dragged. half carried before Justice
Smith. Ho was placed in n chair facing the
desk. II IL face was bloody and terribly swol-
len. and to the Justices questions he numb
ont replies between his groans of pain. No
charge was ann, made against him. Justice
~, 1T is az ontraESS;" he said; that man in
lance to a hospital. Have an ambulance sum
pital"
Dr. Meacham. the ambulance surgeon from
Bellevue snid. after an examination. that
Amsblad was badly hurt and suffering from
severe COMMISSIONS. He thought that no bones
were broken. although some OF the symptoms
indicated that there might be fracture Of tho
Shortly after Almsbad had been admitted to
Bellevue he became delirlous and then lapsei
him and suspected a fracture Of tho skull on
the forehead The doctors decided that trepan-
ming was NECESSARY to save the mans life. pr
G GLs reformed the operation. assisted by
WAS made across the forehead and n fragment
Of bone taken out. There WIS fracture from
Just above the bridge Of the nose to the or
almost ceased at times. and had to be restored
by artificial means and heroic treatment
The patient was very weak from loss OF blood
successful: As, it was he fingered until 9:15
o'clock last night when he died.
pr: Fitzpatrick said Yesterday: I'VE did not
think Amshlad's case a hospital case. II We
took every drunken man We are called to treat
We would fill up the hospital SO that there
would be no room for those who are really In
Rudolph Bruss. who started out from the
Steamship with Almsblad. returned to the boat
at 8 o'clock on Thursday night. drunk. and fell
from the pier into tho water. He was rescued
raigned at tho Tombs and was discharged
with warning.