The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-26
WITH BIG HOLE
IN MS HEAD
An Unknown Man Was Found
Beside the Railroad Track
FELL FROM MOVING TRAIN
Seems to Be the Plausible
Explanation of Accident.

! An unknown man about % years of age.
was brought to the Wichita hospital yes
terday at noon from Toronto. Kan. with
a hole the size of a dollar on the left side
of his forehead. He was unconscious
when taken to the hospital and is in the
same condition at the present time and
the physicians have little hope of his re-
covery.
The man was found lying beside the
Missouri Pacific railroad tracks, a short
distance west of Toronto, the third sta
ton west OF Yates Center, yesterday
morning. He was taken to that town
and medical attention given him, but the
physicians did not have the proper in
struments TO perform so delicate an oper-
alton as removing that piece of bone from
off the brain, 90 he was sent TO the hos
pital. He came in at 1926.
Immediately after arriving az the hos
pital Drs. Hoffman and Strong removed
the piece of bone. A piece of solid bone
the size of a dollar was taken out and
some splinters. A large blood clot had
foInled under the bone and this was re-
moved, but up TO 2 o'clock this D-orning,
tic man had not regained consciousness.
after the operation was performed
search was made by the hospital authori-
ties to find something thai would dis
close the mans identity, ha. the search
proved fruitless. Not letter or paper
OF any kind could be founj in the mans
clothing and the contents OF mis- rockets
amounted to eighteen cents and plug
of tobacco. The trainmen were ques-
toned when the body was found, but
zone had ever seen the man. =, rsons
who saw his face when he arrived IN this
city, said he was a stranger here end he
is stranger in Toronto.
The man was smooth shaven. not more
u.an % years OF age, well proportioned,
and would be pronounced = ratl'er fine
looking man. He wore labo-crs clothes.
although his coat and trousers were of
fine texture and his face and hands were
tanned, showing that ne had been wcrk
ing in the harvest fields
No one knows how the man came to
his accident. From an examination Of
;he wound one would cor.clude ihat the
man was riding on a train and fell Off,
his head striking the corner Of "A eros
tia Tho fracture was in such ! position
ard of such a nature that this would
seem the most plausible exple Hetion of
the accident The fact that noIey was
I, # in the pockets preclrces all idea Of
attack 1cl robbery. bur the mar may
have been killed by his enemies Or may
have been pushed of the train. 1t would
take a terrible blow from a hammer to
make that indention in the skull. 1t
ould be very easily made by falling
from a rapidly moving train and striking
a tie. and this makes the theory that ne
fell from the train all the more stronger
and when he becames conscious, If he
ever does which is hardly possible, in all
likelihood he will tell the story that he
was beating his way on a freight train
and lost his grip on the rods or handrail
and fell.
The man evidently lay on the ground
for several hours, as his clothes were
quite damp, and when found he had lost
a great amount of blood and the hemor-
rhage had been formed several hours be-
fore he reached the hospital.