Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-03-07
COASTERS ARE HURT.
Serious Accident Last Night on
the Twentieth Street
Hill.
LOADED BOBSLED Is WRECKED.

Seven Boys the Victims. Two of Them
Being Rendered Unconscious, Receiving
Bad Injuries, And Taken to the Hospital
In the Ambulance Broken Limbs and
Bruised Bodies.
Seven boys were hurt, two serious
", in a coasting accident on the Twen-
tieth street hill about o'clock last
night. The injured:
FRANK ROSEBERG, 500 Third ave-
nue.. aged IA, right leg broken be-
tween knee and bip, and two cuts of
IA and three inches in the same
limb.
GEORGE Killing. 522 Eighth street.
aged Is. blood vessel in neck rup-
tured, lower jaw broken and IA teeth
Knocked out.
JOSEPH DEISENROTH, hand lac
Grated.
PERRY MCCONNELL, body bruised.
CLARENCE COYNE. bruises.
EDWARD CONCANNON. bruises.
PAUL APPELQUIST, bruises.
Roseberg and King were taken to
St. Anthony's hospital in the ambu
lance. They were both unconscious
when picked up. That there were no
is almost miraculous, as the boys slid
along the icy path for fully one hun
dred feet after the bob had broken
in twain and was upset.
The sleet on the hill has made
Goa sting particularly perilOus. The
descent of the sleds is terrific.
All the boys who were concerned in
last nights accident reside in the
lower end of the city.
Bob Strikes a Bump.
One of their number said he
thought the bob lost its bearings as
the result of running over a bump in
the TRACK. This caused the sled,
which was going like a streak of
to use his description, to
Jump out of the track When it came
down it alighted on the right runners
The bows heaved to the other side in
accordance with instructions from the
steersman. Joseph Deisenroth, but it
was too late. The bob swayed for a
moment, aud then Topped over on it's
boys chung to the sleds, which con-
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others were hurled into the street
closer to the curbing, and slid for
considerable distance. The bob
tipped over at Eleventh avenue.
King alightod against the curbiDg,
striking his mouth, and Rosebcrg col
lided with hitching post.
The boys were carried into Mai G.
w. Halves home. Several doctors
were called. Drs. C.. L. Foster, e. q.
Craig. Sr., j. Il. HolIowbush and q.
q. Craig, Jr., responded and cared for
the unfortunates. King seemed to
be the worse off of the injured, his
neck being frightfully distended from
the rupture of.the blood vessel. Both
boys are reported to be doing well to-
day. The doctors say they will re-
cover.
While the ambulance was driving
down Twentieth street it had a narrow
escape from n collision with a runa-
way horse attached to an overturned
sleigh. The horse, it was learned,
had started on Fifth avenue. Who it
belonged TO. the police were unable to
ascertain. The horse continued on
its mad dash up the Twentieth street
hill.
The indiscriminate use of Twentieth
street for coasting has occasioned
much complaint. and the city should
have interfered before now to prevent
accidents of the nature of that which
occurred last night.
Other Accidents.
Adolph Weckel slipped yesterday at
his home on Thirty-ninth street, and
fell. badly bruising his shoulder.
Mrs. Samuel Schenk, residing at
53S Thirteenth street, slipped on an
icy crossing at Thirtv-tirst street and
Ninth avenue this afternoon and in
iured her hip. She was taken home
in the ambulance.
A horse hitched to a new top buggy,
the property of Joe Fisher, of Daven-
port, broke loose on Market square
yesterday afternoon and ran south to
Laflin's barn. where it turned in. The
rig was wrecked.
Eva, S-year-old daughter of DR.. G.
A Virgins, of Milan, was run down
by j. II. Gilmore's delivery sled,
while returning home from school
drive en- by Ray Kennedy. The child
was dragged about ten ieet. her collar
bone being broken and her body pain
fully bruised.
In turning out of the street car
tracks on Fifth avenue last night. Will
Collins cutter was overturned and [ e
was thrown out. While he held to
the reins for awhile, he was unable to
get the horse under control, and it ran
home, badly damaging the sleigh on
the way.
DR.. and Mrs. j. De Silva had an ex-
citing experience in South Rock Island