Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-27


closed. James Penny,a member Of the
Northwestern's surfacing gang. aged
about 30 years and unmarried, got un-3
dersa Northwestern freight train, and as
result lost his right leg.
Penny was drunk and does not know
how the accident occurred. Neither does
he know the exact time. whether he at
tempted to board the train, was trying
TO get on, or whether hes had fallen
asleep on the track. At any rate he was
found about o'clock by another stran-
ger, who happened to be strolling thru.
the railroad yards and officer Weaver
was notified. The man was unconscious,
partially from pain, shock and liquor,
;As he had lain 20 long without any att
tention. An ambulance was summoned
and he was taken to Jail, where the leg
was amputated few inches below the
knee.
The foot and ankle We're badly
crushed. as was also the lower part OF
the leg. and about all that remained for
the surgeon to do was to cut away a
little skin, dress the end of the bone and
sew up the wound over the stump.
Penny does not clam to have any
home and says he knows nothing Of
where his relatives live. He has beel;
working with the surfacing gang for
! some time and 10 q hard drinker. II was
only last Monday that he was released
from Jail, after having served a six
days work sentence for ntoxication,
sts TRAMPs SAVE A LIFE.
G.. Al. Bowdtsh. a young man "a years
! OF age, who resides at Clinton and who
10 employed az brakeman on the
i Northwestern. owes his life to three
ttamps who were stealing ride on his
train early this morning at Tama. Bow
dish was walking on top OF a freight
train. No. 81. at about 1916 O'clock
this morning. and attempted to step
from a high box car to lower one,
when he missed his calculations In some
manner and fell between the care. He
struck on the bumpe and then fell to
the ground, and the instant that he
reached Il was grasped by three tramps.
who were in the act OF boarding the
train. and pulled out from harm's way.
i Luckily the train was moving slowly.
\ which aided the rescuers in their timely
( aselstance, but Bowdlsh thinks that had
{: not the men been where they were at
that particular moment and rendered
him the assistance they did he would
have been dragged and ground to pieces,
& ~ the fall would have rendered him in
capable OF helping himself to any great
degree. He was brought 10 this city to
the Getz hospital Immediately after the
acc.dent. where his injuries. chiefly bad
brutser In the region OF the back and
L hips. were dressed. Helwas sent TO his
home In Clinton this morning
SECTION MAN HURT.
Samuel Kinnear. of $40 johnson street,
AeectiOn hand in the employ OF the Chi
caxo Great Western, was quite painful
" injured this morning while loading
d steel In the yards. One rail had just
been pitched on top of a fiat car when
one end flew back and struck the ground
where Ktnnear was standing. The heavy
eteel hit Kinnear on the right leg. above
4 the ankle, bruising 1t badly and fractur-
!. ing the fbula. He was removed to his
] home. Rs
ri INJURED IN ST. PAUL.
Word was received in the city this
nssrnings bys Mrs. George Wagner, an.
1 nSuncine the serious injury to her bro.,
i ther. Charles West, former employe
sgOE the Central blacksmith shops and the
ESnnox Machine Company. The par
\ ttaulArs OF the accident are very meager
Saed are to the effect that the young man
4 w hurt by the falling OF 100 pounds OF
ltest Iron, and that he will probably be
cripple s3or life. He has been In st.
2 Eput aDout TWO montns. working liz
y aoine machine shopA He will be sent
to this city Just - soon as he II able
i t4strayslss and from here will probably
Il Ken 10 NeYada where hig mother.
& g ilissa lkia,s &C. ldss.