The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-13
DRIVEN INTO HIS HEAD
A Shocking Accident to Charles
Talon, a Miner.
WAS EMPALEO ON A DRILL
It Went Almost Through His Head.
but the Doctors Say That He May
Recover From the Effects OF
the Accident.

Charles Talon. a very well known
miner. was shockingly injured in an ac-
cident in the Stewart mine yesterday af-
ternoon. An inch and a quarter drill
ran almost through his head. yet he still
lives and II is believed has a fair show
to recover.
Talon was employed as a carman, and
a part of his duties was to gather up
the dull tools and take them to the sur
face to be sharpened. Between IL and
/ o'clock yesterday afternoon he start
ed in to collect the drills hat needed
sharpening. He started on the s00-foot
level. and after collecting the drills put
them in a car and rang for the cage.
He placed the car on the cage and
climbed into IL and rang to go to the
700 to gather up the drills on that level.
The drills being about five feet long.
one end stuck up out of the car, extend
ing slantingly "a DOT or more over the
edge Of one end Of the car. This is the
ordinary method OF carrying the drills
up, but Talon apparently was not care
full to see that the drills were all down
In the car as far as they would go. 1t
IN not known this was the case, as Tai
lon alone can explain the accident, and
he has not as yet beeen able TO talk.
but no other theory seems plausible. At
all events. when the cage started one
or more of the drills caught in the wall
plates. causing the car to tip up on
end and become itself fast betwee the
wall plates. The cage came to a sud
den stop and Engineer Archie ellis
thew Immediately something was
wrong. He sent Pumpman Charles Cad
dy down In the opposite shaft TO see
what was the matter. and Shift Boss
Frank Fitzgerald followed a moment
later. They found the drills imbedded
in the wall plates on one side of the
shaft ana the car in the other. Talon
sat motionless on the door of the car.
A drill was sticking into the left side of
his head, just under the jaw.
They at first thought he was dead, but
II was soon seen he was not, and as ex-
peditiously as possible he was removed
and taken to the surface. Drs. Wells
and Lobb were summoned, and on
reaching TIE mine removed the drill and
took the injured man to the hospital.
In making an examination II was
found the inch and a quarter drill had
entered the middle % the neck on the
left side and run straight up. passing
behind the angle of the jawbone and
through the temporal muscle and had
come out at the temple. The jaw bone
was not broken, hut the cheek bone was
fractured in four places. BY great good
fortune the brain had not been injured.
How the unfortunate man came to re-
ceive such n peculiar injury 1t Is i'm
possible 20 Conceive. Inc will not be
known till ne can tell himself, should he
o The ~ii.jCIies were dressed and
at a late hour last evening Talon was
resting easy. ar. Wells stated that I'M
less secondary corr cations set in he
has strong hoIes Of his A
wonderful constitution is greatly in the
mans ave
Talon has r,'merous relatives in the
city. including -four brothers. He is of
the same family as the Tallons who
hold the championship for drilling, one
being a brother and the other a cousin.
The injured man resides at 1874 West
Agate street.