Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-01-09
TALKOFTHETRACK'
Marshall Wilcox Has a Severe
Accident.
HAND CAUGHT MAKING A COUPLING

HAND CAUGHT MAKING A COUPLING
Rock Island Brakeman Loosss Two Flag.
els - the Re suit VI an Early Mosnipg
Mhhsp- Postal Clerk Mitchell Fails
From BE Car-Gensral News.
Marshall Wilcox, Ct Elue Island,
brakeman on passenger ira n 5, of
the Rock Island. had his left hand
badly lacerated while attempting
to make coupling early this morn
ing. One of the cylinder heads of
the engine. which was in command
o; Engineer Webber, with Cond uctpr
Finley, blew out near Geneseo,
gripping the train. Another engine
was sent for. 1t was while coupling
it onto the rear of the train that
Brakeman Wilcox was caught. He
WAS taken on to this city.
and taken to st. Anth,ny's
hospital in the ambular ce.
Dire. s. G. Plnmner and j. De Silv .
attended the Injured man. and fjL nd
it necessary to amputate tbs two
last fingers Of the left hand near the
middle If the metacarpal bones q
William Mitchell. a railway postal
clerk. who runs into Rock Island
on ahe Q, was the victim of an IN.
fortunate mishap near Youngstown
yesterday afternoon. He was leau.
ing On an iron brace which crosses
the entrance to the car, as the train
was nearing Youngstown coming
north. and by a sudden JOLT Of the
car was thrown te,dlong to the
ground. The fall dazed him, bu,
fortunately no bones were br ken,
although it is not known whether he
vas hurt internally. Mr.. Mitchell
who Is second clerk to Clerk J. w
balsey, was taken to his home a
Monmouth. Hisrun was continued b.
Clerk F. E Mcdonald. Mr.. Mitchell
has been particularly unfortunate OF
late, having had his head cut open
by the explosion of Jug in the ca,
last summer.
Ed Friday, fireman on the cas-,
Iowa division Of the Rock leland, ha.
resigned.
The Rock Island has pulled of on.
of its night switch engines On &C
count Of poor business.
George Illingsworth has resigned
his position as machinist in thu
Rock Island & Peoria shops here.
Harry Brady is here from Savanna,
where he is connected with the Nil,
waukee road, on q visit to his folks
William Johnson's iron horse. tEs
9l5, is in the Rock Islands shops
across the river for a ger eral over
hauling, and the genial Bill il taking
a rest in the meantime.
Conductor William Kavauaugh has
been given charge Of the new passep
ger train which the Rock Island ha:
put on between here and Muscatine
Peter McCoskey is the engineer.
James Sheehan, who runs the
Book Island fast mail west, is taking
a vacation while his engine is being
repaired at the shops in Davenport
Engineer James Smith with the 975
is running in his place.
Thomas Stapleton, who was fire
man for Engineer Gilmore when thu
fatal wreck occurred near BROOKLYN
has fully recovered from the in juries
he sustained in the accident, and i.
now back at work again.
The boys around the Rock lei
and round house are agitatins
the Offering of reward foI
the recover of q small bunch OF
spinach, which suddenly disappeared
from the pbisog of Charley Arnold
1t Is said the wind had something tc
do with it. 1t is being investigated
A workman in one Of the railroad
shops was made to believe by his fel
low employees, that the banks wer,
all tottering and it was only a ques
ton of few days until every one O
, them would 60 TO the wall Ii,
laid aside his tools forthwith. took
half holiday, and went to tho banl
and drew out the money be had OF
deposit. Now he Is mad st every
BODY in the shop because the ban,
didn't fail. aud breads the coming Of
night, fearing thu: he will be robbed
A mirror could not lie il i. wan ter
to. The glass has nothiog to gail
by flattery. II the roses Of healtl
and plumpness Of beauty are leavin.
your face, your mirror will tel, vol
SO. Health is the greatest beeutifiel
in the world. When q woman see
the indications Of ill health in thu
face, she may with almost absolut,
certainty look for the cause in one O.
both of two cnnH itinns-cnns