The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-07-21
B.F. FIXSEN AND WIFE HURT
Injured In a Runaway Accident
While Going Home Wednes-
day Evening.
Mr. Fixen Completely paralyzed
and Probably Fatally
Injured.

Injured.
A horrible runaway accident oc-
Cured few miles cut from Belview
last Wednesday evening, when team
belonging to B. F. Fixsen of Vail town.
ship, and one of the oldest settlers in
Redwood county, ran away, and
probably fatally injured Mr.. Fixsen
and seriously, if not fatally injured
his wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fixsen left Belview at
just about seven o'clock. When near
ly five miles out Paul Koska drove
passed them. In Koska's buggy we're
several bundles of unthreshed rye,
picked up in one OF the fields along
the drive from Belview to the scene of
the accident. The rye bounced
around in the wagon as Koska passed
and Fixsen's spirited team became
frightened, starting on wild run, and
getting beyond the control of the dri-
YER. Running several rods the wagon
struck stone or stump, the horses
breaking the whiffle trees and from
the wagon, causing the wagon to raise
in the air, and the tongue to penetrate
down into the earth. Mr.. and Mrs.
Fixsen cannot recall anything that
happened after this, and Koska was
too far away to observe anything.
When the latter returned to the scene
of the accident he found both Mr.. and
Mrs. Fixsen on the ground and in a
horrible condition, both being prac-
tically unconscious, and blood flowing
profusely from wounds received by
Mrs. Fixsen.
Koska Immediately took Mrs. Fixsen
to the residence of Martin Scanlan,
near by, and then returned for Fixsen,
to whom they gave several doses of q
stimulant in an endeavor to rally him.
Being unable to do this they took him
to the Scanlan residence, and DIR.
Dredge of Belview was immediately
summoned. He found that Mrs. Fix
sens mouth had been torn on either
side SO that the flesh hung down in
pieces, there was hole through her
nose, and the bridge of that member
was broken. Aside from these wounds
Mrs. Fixsen's back was more or less
bruised. She was enciente at the time,
and the injuries may have a fatal
effect. DR.. Dredge dressed these
wounds, and then made an examina-
ton Of Birney, who was still uncon-
scious. He found him paralyzed from
the chest down, being able to move
only his head and his arms, the re-
mainder of the body being SO badly
paralvzed that needle could be run
into any portion of it without being
felt by the patient. 1t is thought that
the spinal column of the patient is
injured.
Mrs. Fixsen was slowly improving,
according to the last reports, but Bir.
ney did not show the slightest indi-
cation of doing so. On the contrary.
the Redwood people remaining with
him during the nights since the &C.
cident, report that each night he seems
to he growing weaker, his gasps for
breath are shorter, and the indications
are that the accident will prove fatal.
Birney , is q member of Redwood
Lodge No. IS. A. o. q. W., of this
city, and the members of that organi-
zation are attending to his wants dur
ing the nights.
After the physician had been sum-
moned the Scanlans went down to the
scene of the accident and found the
wagon tongue sticking nearly four feet
into the ground, and in getting it out
it was broken.
Before The GAZETTE went to press
yesterday, it was stated that Mr.. Fix
sen had grown no better or worse,
while Mrs. Fixsen was on the improve.
The members of the A. o. q. W. lodge
of this city were making arrangements
to have Mr.. Fixsen brought to this
city or Belview. where he could have
better care with less trouble, and it is
probable that this will be done.
While Mr.. Fixsen may survive the
accident he will probably always be a
paralytic, as q result of the accident.
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