Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-05-22
ACCIDENTS

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cident May 5.
The staging on the new barn of A.
L. Stevens Of Richmond gave way Nav
10th and Frank Larock, one of the
skaters, fell distance of p feet aud
was seriously injured.
= Marshall Bellmore of BENNINGTON
was seriously and perhaps fatally
injured May 18th He fell % feet from
building, striking on a marble walk.
One leg and one arm were broken. and
he was internally injured.
Alfred Bushey, Jr., Of Hinesburp. a
boy seven years old, met with a seri-
Gus accident May 10, while rolling a
hoop. He fell and the stick he was
using penetrated one eye, probably
destroying the sight
Frank Hare of Milton. who is doing
some work for W II. Cutting. lost his
left eye May 18th. The corner of a
clapboard, which he was pulling off
the side OF a building struck him in
the eye, inflicting an injury which des-
troyed the sight.
May 10th, Paul Cutler of Mortified
tell from the roof of the Cutler com
pany's ice house and broke his arm in
two places. While George Campbell
of Mortified was climbing tree for a
nest OF squirrels the limb on which he
was standing broke. He fell about
forty feet, striking on his feet and
breaking his leg.
Charles I Paquin was thrown from
swing staging twenty-five feet above
the ground while painting in Cabot,
May l4th. He remained in an uncon-
scious condition for about half an
hour. Drs. Burbank and Wisewell
were hastily summoned and il was
found that there were two ribs broken
and many severe bruises. Unless
internal Injuries resulted recovery
will follow.
John c. Bruten Of Rutland was Sc
verely injured by falling from a ladder
while working at the Columbian Mar
bic Quarrying company's mill May
10th He was carrying heavy load
of ropes aud tackle blocks and had
proceeded about ten feet up a ladder |
when the ladder slipped to one side /
and fell with a crash to the ground, |
bringing the man with It. His spine |
was injured and two ribs on the right |
side were fractured.
Christopher Trentlisch, employed |
on the iarm OF Gen. j. G.. Mccullough |
in North Bennington, was fearfully in /
jured May 18th, being kicked by a
horse. lie tried TO climb on the seat |
of high wagon and stepping on the |
evener tell behind the horse inside the |
traces. The animal kicked him with |
full force a dozen times before he was
rescued His back is broken and his /
ribs crushed in. The doctors think he
may live, but with the lower part of
his body and legs paralyzed. He has
a large family.
Furio Geuiglo, an Italian of Barre,
received injuries from falling off an
electric car May IL which resulted in
his death. Geuiglo was standing on
the platform of an open car. riding to
When near the farm of
Clark Shepard. Just below Barre, the
wind lifted the Italians hat from his
head. He made an effort 10 save il
and in so doing lost his balance and
pitched headlong from the car. He
struck on his head and was rendered
The man never recov-
cred consciousness, but lived until
4 o'clock the next morning The skull
was badly fractured.
Ford Earl Halliday, aged II years,
the son of Mrs. Lulu Halliday of Rut-
land, was almost instantly killed by
being run over by heavy dump cart
afternoon. He was racing
on a bicycle on Crescent St., and after
aside 10 pass wagon going in
the same direction from some unac- !
cause fell from his bicycle,
his head striking Just in front of the
wagons rear wheel The driver, Mr..
Brown. heard the noise but could not ,
stop before the heavy wheel passed I
over the boys head. grinding the skull ,
o pulp above the eyes and ears. The !
ad was taken home in the ambulance, /
out died before he reached there and i
without regaining consciousness. Ills !
ather was killed by the cars at Fitch I
burg about five years ago.
A. W. Risteen of Boston was Sc /
rerely injured May 18th as a result
If a fall received while working on
me of the large gas tanks new being
ERECTED at the plant of the Peoples !
ias Light company, Rutland. Mr.. +
}isteen was on staging about ten Z
eet from the ground heating some {
.iveting bolts in a portable forge 9
when the staging suddenly collapsed J
citing both the man and the forge tall
o the ground Risteen was pinned
lown by the forge and the fire spilled
,ut on to his left arm, burning it Sc
-erely from the hand to the elbow.
lie was stunned by the blow and was
Inable to free himself from the burn
mo- Goals. lie received three scalp
Wounds and a cut in the forehead, in
m of which stitches had to be taken.
lis RIGHT ear was torn nearly in halves.