Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-08-18
BICYOLIST PARALYzED.
Burton Perry Found by the
Roadside in Chesterfield.

He Has Not Fully Recovered Conscious
ness and His Condition IL Critical
---Len side Helpless and shoulder
DisIOcSted.
Burton Perry was seriously injured by a
fall from bicycle Sunday afternoon while
returning from Spofford lake. Perry is a
young man who lives with his parents in
Dummerston on the road to Putney. He
had charge OF the Brooks House drug
store last year. and during a part Of this
summer has worked in the drug store of
Jones & O'Brien al Hinsdale. He left the
lake about o'clock TO ride to his home.
He was found after O'Clock 2 1-2 miles
from the lake, this side of the top Of the
hill which runs down on the east side to
the old mill, by Carl Henkel, manager of
the telephone exchange, who was driving
back from the lake, accompanied by his
wife and little daughter. Perry was I'M
conscious, but was groveling in the dirt,
with his head in the wheel track. His
wheel was some distance away on the OPP
posite side of the road, and hanging on 1t
were his camera and coat. Perry was COW
cred with dirt, cold, wet, and in distress,
and Mr.. Henkel saw at once that he had
been injured.
Two young women, who live in Chester
field, soon drove up, and at Mr.. Henkers
request they went to the nearest farm
house to get team to carry Perry home,
but an aged woman was alone at the
house. A bicyclist came along about the
time that the young women returned, and
leaving the wheelman with Perry Mr..
Henkel drove back TO Silverdale and asked
Fred Rand, manager of the livery stable
there, to carry Perry home in an express
wagon. Mr.. Henkel drove back to where
be found Perry and assisted Mr. Rand in
getting the injured man into the wagon.
Perry's home was reached about 10
O'Clock. On arriving in Brattleboro Mr..
Henkel summoned DR.. Lynch and went
with him TO Perry's home, where Mr..
Rand and the injured man had arrived in
the meantime. An examination showed
that the young mans shoulder was
dislocated and his left side completely
paralyzed. His vitality was at very low
ebb, and 1t was thought that he would live
only short time, but the physician re-
manned with him several hours, and after
a time his pulse, which had been down to
IS, grew stronger and his general coDdi-
ton more hopeful.
Probably 20 teams and as many bicy-
clists rode past Perry after be met with an
accident before Mr.. Henkel came to his
assistance. Some of the people who saw
him say he was sitting by the roadside.
Two bicyclists, who saw him lying near
the road, stopped and picked up his coat
and camera and placed them on his wheel.
The tire of the front wheel was wound
with tape and was fat. The bicyclists
thought Perry was drunk, and after pick
ing up his hat, coat and camera rode away.
Perry is temperate man, aud if any of
the people who saw him had examined
him carefully enough to have ascertained
his suffering condition relief might have
been afforded him much quicker. He was
on the cold, wet ground in the falling dew
three hours, and did not reach his home
until nearly five hours after the accident,
and the long exposure was a great shock,
in his weakened condition.
DR.. Lynch is of the opinion that Perry
sustained a shock of paralysis while riding
his wheel, and that the shock caused the
fall which resulted in adislocated shoulder.
The fall evidently took place Just as Per-
ry reached the top of the decline, at a
time when he would naturally be riding
slowly. Perry has not fully recovered
consciousness during the week, although
he seems TO have some understanding of
what is taking place. His condition is
still regarded as very serious