Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-08
SERIOUS ACCIDENTS
JAMES HICKS TERRIBLY INJURED ATHOLLI-
DAYS planning MILL
Fritz Yado Has an Arm Cat OF through BIS
Own Oarelessnsss-A Wellsburg Guzsn
Killsd-Othsr Mishaps Reported

The accident record still keeps up us
large proportions, so noticeable re-
Gently.
Yesterday several very serious casual
ties were reported. together with the
usual grist Of lesser mishaps. As long
as the present run Of bad luck contin-
ues. there is little danger that surgery
will become lost art in this neighoor-
hood.
One of the most serious accidents re-
ported was made known at the residence
OF Assessor Robert Anderson, at Edg-
inRton's about four o'clock yesterday
morning. AT that hour Fritz Yado, a
resident OF Peters run, aroused Mr..
Anderson. and when the man was ex'
amined. il was discovered that his riRht
arm had been run over by an Elm Grove
motor. presumably on the last in-com-
fp1 trim. and that the member was so
badly Iacerated that amputation would
be necessary. Yesterday very erro-
neops publication Of the accident was
made. The facts are as follows:
Ysdo came into town Tuesday
night and drank good deal OF
liquor, and then boarded the nine
o'clock motor for EdgingtOn, II
being his custom to leave the motor at
that point aud 20 over the hill 10 his
home on Peters run. When the motor
stoDoed at EchO Point, TO let oil
connie of passengers, YadO insisted on
getting of, too, imagining that ne was
AT Edgingtonis. The conductor told
himhe had not reached the right sta
tion. but YadO was full, and after as
surfing the conductor, with all drunken
mans earnestness, that he knew what
he was doing, and could take care
Of himself. be was allowed
10 get of, and the Train
went of and left him. After Iado had
Strengthened up aud gotten his pear
ings he discovered that he wasn't AZ
Edgington's, and started east along the
track for that point. BY the time ne
had gotten within about fifty feet oil
the culvert, however, he was too tired
TO proceed, and lay down in the gutter
on the south side Of the track, when
curves at that point, and went 10 Sleep
That's all YadO knows about what nap
pened TO him, until about halI-paSI
three Yesterday morning, when ne come
10, and discovered something was
wrong. The trouble was that be-
fore the eleven o'clock motor
came along be threw his right
arm over the south rail Of the track, In
his sleep, aud IL was run
over aud horribly crushed. lie
tried TO get up, about haif-past three
and in his own language, found there
was something the matter" with him.
He finally got on his legs, and discover
ing that his arm was crushed, ne
wrapped a handkerchief around 1t,
PINNED il to his coat with his left hand,
and then made his way TO Mr.. Ander-
sons house, arousing that gentleman
from his sleep. As soon as the extent
OF his injuries were ascertained, ne was
brought into town in a buggy and
taken TO the City Hospital, where the
arm was amputated. No blame what
ever attaches to the employees OF the
motor line, as in the position In which
Yado was lying he could not be seen
from the engine cab, as the headlight,
on the curve, Is thrown towards the
north side OF the track, while be was
living on the south side, In the gutter.
The statement that he fell of the motor
is wholly false.