Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-09-26
MAY OPERATE AGAIN.
Report That Roosevelt Will Once
More Submit to Knife.
PASSED COMFORTABLE DAY.
encouraging News Received From
His Special Train IA 1t Hasten
ed From India ma polls to
Washington.

Washington. Sept. 2o.-The news that
President Roosevelt had been COM
PEELED TO undergo an operation at In
dianapolis as the result of an injury
to his leg sustained in the trolley acct
dent at PittStield. Mass. was so sud
den that the people of this city We're
aStounded. Arrangements We're prompt
ly made to meet the presidents train
on its arrival by AN ambulance corps
from the marine hospital.
Surgeon General ltiXey. the presi-
dents medical adviser. is II of the
city, but DR.. John l.. Uric. assistant
chief of the naval bureau of medicine.
who has Il full report on the operation
and the causes making it necessary.
says that in his opinion the wound
made 10y the inciSion will have healed
nicely after the president has had Il
weeks rest.
Immediately after the president was
Gble to be moved he was carried to his
special car at indianapolis. and the
train was headed for this city.
Throughout the day encouraging re
ports came from the train. The pres
ident had passed an excellent night
in fact. the best he had had since he
started Oh his western trip. His leg
was about free from pain. and his lem
perature WAS normal. 1t was reported,
however. thA1 another operation would
be necessary.
An Absccss Removed.
The operation was necpSSitatpd by
the appearance of an a~l,SceSS on his
left leg and was entirely successful
The president had been complaining of
a pain in his leg ever since the accident
at l'ittstield. but it was at first thought
that the injury was nothing more seri.
GUS than a bad hruiSe.
At Detroit. however. the pain mad
Increased SO that he asked Dr.. Lun.
of the navy who is accompanying"
him. to looh at il. DR.. Lung found
that the leg in the region of the lTuise
was iptalnpd and advised that an
operation be performed to remove the
evident abscess. This was decided up
on after leaving Detroit. and ii was
agreed that the operation should he ut
Indianapolis. All preparations were
made on the train. Washington being
instructed to make arrangements at
til" hospital and with the surgeons in
Indianapolis.
Here the announcement was made
only when everything was ready and
the arrangements carried out without
a hitch. While the president was re-
covering from the shock of the opera
ton and before he was removed from
st. Nincent's hospital to his train Sec
retary Cortelyou gave out the follow.
Ing bulletin:
AT 3:15 p. m. the president went
from the Columbia club to st. Vim
cents hospital in his own carriage. and
shortly after he was in the hospital
the operation required was performed
by Ir. George II. Oliver of lndianapo-
lis, in consultation with the president $
physician. DR.. George a. Lung, and
DR.. George j. Cook. DR.. Henry Jane
Son and Or. J.. j. Richardson.
statement After the Operation.
AT the conclusion of the operation
the physicians authorized the follow
Ing statement:
"'.Ns Il result of the traumatlsm
Qhrnisc' received in the trolley accl-
dent at Pittstield. Mass. there was
found to he Il circumscrihed COLLECTION
Of perfectly pure Sclum in the mlduie
third of the left anterior tlhlaI region
the sac containing about two ounces
which We're removed.
1.-THE Indications are that the lrtSl-
dent should make speedy recovery IL
Is absolutely imperative. however. tliill
he shNlld remain quiet ana REFRAIN
from using the leg. The trouble is not
serious. but temporarily disabling
The presidents trip w;ls just fairl!
begun. He had made only six speeches
and WAS scheduled TO make thirty more
stops, which would mean about eighty
Speeches. rs they figured OH
two and three %impromptu talks from
the rear of the train between sclled-
uled stops.
AS soon as it was definitely known i'll
the west that the presidents trip hao
been called off because of the opera
ton kilograms of coincidence colh
nenced to arrive. OF course there
was great disappointment throughout
the west, as great preparations tor MS
reception had been made.
FalcOniO Gets Rush Orders.