Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-06-22
IS RAPIDLY RECOVERING
Miss Amy Olson Now at Home
in St. Paul and Doing
Nicely.

St. Paul Globe, Monday: Miss
Amy Olson, the St. Paul girl who fell
from the editorial excursion train
near Willard, Mo-, Sunday evening,
June S, while On her way from the
St. Louis exposition, arrived home
yesterday morning.
Miss Olson's rapid recovery is con.
sidered almost miraculous Aside
from q scalp wound, q discolored eye
and and few bruises. the girl 10 ap-
parently but little the worse for her
terrible experience. Arriving at the
Virginia hats, where she lives with
her mother, Miss Olson aliRhted from
the carriage unassisted and walked to
her apartments. Last evening when
= Glooe reporter called ct the Vir-
GINA he was told that the girl had
gone with friends to Central park "for
little fresh air. "
Miss Olson went to St. Louis as q
member of the Minnesota editors
party, and was q general fav0rite
with the 300 people who took the trip.
The night of the accident she had gone
to one OF the rear coaches for hand
bag and after securing it, started
back to her own car.
This ia the last she remembers, but
it 10 presumed that in passing from
one car to another she fell from the
train, one of the vestibules having
been found open. The accident hap
pened about IL o'clock at night, and
her friends supposing che was in her
berth, did not miss her until the
following morning, when q message
was received stating that q girl sup
posed to be Miss Olson had been found
Unconscious near the track short
distance from the email tom of Mil
lard, Mo.
Miss Olson was taken to Willard
and cared for at the little hotel in the
town, where she remained until Satur-
day, her condition being such that it
was feared brain fever would set in if
she were moved. The girl probably
owes her life to the fact that she fell
on q soft embaukment down which she
rolled q distance of thirty feet. When
picked up the following morning she
was still unconscious, her clothing
was covered with clay and her face
and hands with blood. A deep scalp
wound in the left temple was still
bleeding, and it was feared at the time
that she was fatally Injured.
Miss Olson says the people of Mil.
lard were as kind to her ss they pos
sibly could be. She WAS in the little
town almost q week and everyone of
the $50 people in the village seemed to
want to do something tor her. There
are no hospitals there but almost
every woman in the town offered her
services in caring for the girl.
II shall never forget those people,"
said Miss Olson last night. ''They
we're 90 kind to me. Why, one woman
stopped cleaning house and insisted
on taking care of me, and she told
me herself that she hadn't cleaned
house in four years. And they sent
me flowers, and the girls came In to
sec me; why, everyone treated me 90
nicely that l couldn't help but get
WE'LL"
Miss Olson is yet weak from the re.
suits Of her fall, and her tongue shows
q bad scar where she bit it when she
fell. The discoloration from the
bruises and swelling in her face is
rapidly disappearing, in fact she has
so far recovered that the services of q
physician are NO longer needed. The
scalp wound is not visible, being hid
den from view by her wealth of golden
hair"
eyes I guess I am pretty fortunate"
said Miss Olson. II just hope the
editors won't consider me Z ho0doo
and refuse to take me along with them
any more, for never had nicer time
than did on that trip until fell of
the train"