Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-07-20
William Beard of Emmons County
Has His Skull Crushed by a
Falling Stone.
William Hickey, an TX Convic
Escapes from the County Jail
Sunday Night.
Reports from Minneapolis Say that
Prof. Wheaton is in a Critical
Condition.
A Br ken Skull.

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William Beard of Emmons county,
was brought to the Lamborn hospital
late Saturday evening, suffering from an
injury sufficient to kill the ordinary man
and yet alive, and clinging to life with
a tenacity which may result in his re-
covery. The injure man was engaged in
cleaning out a we'll for D. R. Streeter,
on Saturday. The we'll in question was
sixty feet deep, and for some time it's
usefulness had been impaired by the
dropping in of rock from along the
sides. Beard was at the bottom of the
we'll, cleaning out the stones, and plac-
ing them in a sack, whereby they we're
drawn up and out. In some way, one of
the rocks become dislodged, when the
sack reached the top of the we'll, and fell
back to the bottom, striking Beard full
in the forehead, just over the eye. The
persons who were at the top were not
aware of what had happened, and took
out the sack to empty 1t. When they
returned Beard was clinging to the top
of the curling in the we'll, his face Gov
cred with blood, and his skull over the
eye crushed and broken, there being an
indentation of a half inch, the size of an
egg, where the skull had been crushed.
Beard was in a semi-dazed condition,
but suffering from the injury described
he had crawled up sixty feet, alone and
unaided. He was helped out of the
shaft, and brought the forty miles to
Bismarck by Messrs. Armstrong and
Thurber. DR.. Harcourt dressed the
wound yesterday, and took out a piece
of the skull which had been broken and
detached. Wonderful to relate, Beard
has been conscious and rational since
the accident, andthe brain does not seem
to have been effected. At latest reports
he was resting we'll and may recover.
Boards vitality is exceptional, and the
case is wonderful, because of the injured
mans nerve and vitality, while suffering
from such an injury.
Hoods pills are the best a~fter-dinner
pills, assist digestion, cure headache.
twenty-five cents a box.
MIR. Hickey vamooses.
Sheriff Donnelly was treated to a sur
prise party by three Of the prisoners who
were confined in the county Jail Sunday
evening. The sheriff accompanied by
Mrs. Donnelly had just returned from
church, and as the latter opened the
door leading into the Jail, three men
stepped out and passed her. Sheriff
Donnelly, who was just behind, grasped
the situation and one of the men at the
same time, and called for his jailor, who
responded, and nabbed another of the
men. In the struggle, however, the third
man escaped, and made tracks for parts
unknown.
The men who made the attempt to
escape, were three %convicts, who we're III
jail for attempting to escape from the
state ~penitentiary, and who had been
bound owe to distict court. They were
confined in a cell on the first floor, and
the sheriff thinks q key or some other
instrument was passed TO them through
the window from the outside, by some
one who was interested in their escape.
The man who was successful in getting
away was William Hickey, who is de-
scribed as about 5 feet 8 inches tall,
weight about lao pounds, fair COM
plexion, coarse black hair, blue eyes,
large mouth and very thick lips. Lately
shaver, and has a slight moustache.
Hickey was one of the men who made
the combined attempt at escape from
the brickyard crew over a year ago.
Sheriff Donnelly has offered 500 reward
for his capture.
That tired feeling which is SO common
and SO overpowering, is entirely driven
off by Hoods Sarsaparilla, the best blood
purifier. Hoods S%arsaparilla overcomee
weakness.
Said to Be Failing.
A telegram from Minneapolis would
indicate that Prof. P. J. Wheaton, who
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