Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-07-15
"A Tramp Steals q Ride and Gets
a Foot Mashed Under the
Wheels.
Passengers on Train 2, Yesterday
Care for Him Until BE Reaches
Mandan.
Some Interesting Discoveries Re-
garding the Youthful Burglars
in Jail Here.
A Tramp Badly Injured.

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1 mornings east bound train Tuesday,
had quite an experience near Richard
ton. The train was running along
smoothly, with everything as usual,
when, suddenly, it stopped. Those
aboard we're somewhat startled, and
visions of burned bridges, washouts,
train robbers and other disagreeable
possibilities crossed their minds, as they
tried to discover some cause for the
stop. 1t was known that there had
been heavy rains in that vicinity, within
the past few days, and to this was at
tributed the stopping of the train. At
length, some Of the more curious of
the passengers determined to get out
and investigate the trouble. Suddenly
the most pitiable groans and cries broke
upon the ears of the now thoroughly ex-
pectant passengers. The cries sounded
from the rear end of the train, and we're
kept up necessarily, as if uttered by
some one in excruciating agony. It is
admitted that it was with rather an
uncanny feeling, and a sort of weird
nervousness that the passengers made
their ways to the place, from which the
cries seemed to come. The darkness
was intense, and the occasion and at
tendant circumstances bore a striking
similarity to the story Of Alice Fell. At
length the end of the train was reached,
and six tramps were discovered, seated
on the trucks of the last sleeper. The
face Of one of them was shookingly
pinched and drawn, and he held in his
hands, a foot, which bore a greater re.
semblance to a mass of jelly than to the
pedal extremity of a human being. "For
Gods sake don't let the train pull up"
he moaned, sand take me out Of this"
Kind and willing hands lifted him from
beneath the car, and he was carried to a
coach farther forward, where the cruelty
mangled foot was dressed in the best
manner possible. Charles Bentley of
this city, was one Of those present, and
he succeeded in stanching the flow of
blood, and made the sufferer as COM
Portable as possible, under the circum-
stances. The accident happened a few
miles this side of R%ichardton, or about
ninety miles from Mandan, which
journey had to be made by the sufferer,
before medical assistance could be OBJ
tanned. His stuff erings during this
Journey must have been intense, but it
ended at last, and he was placed in
charge of DR.. Read of Mandan, who
said that, had he not been attended, as
he was, at once, he would probably have
died before his arrival there.
1t is learned that there were six Of the
tramps, who boarded the train at
R%ichardton, where it stopped for water.
They, all, had been drinking, and it is
supposed that the one who was injured,
fell asleep on the truck, and, in moving
around, restlessly, his foot was caught
under the wheel, and crushed before he
could withdraw it.
Just who stopped the train is still a
question, but it is supposed that some
zone of the occupants of the sleeper
heard his cries, as he sat beneath, and
pulled the bell cord, that their cause
might be Investigated.
;% Some Interesting Facts.