The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-20
WOMAN IN WIRE CAGE.
Heroic Measures Taken by Surgeons
to save Life.

New York. Oct. 2O.-After having
lain in a plaster cast for almost two
months, Mrs. Francis J. futile, of No.
23O Valentine lane, Yonkers, victim Of
runaway accident. is now confined
IN st. Johns hospital in a huge wire
cage-hke frame. which has been adj
justed to fit the cotton-swathed body.
She owes her life to the faithful
service of physicians and nurses, and
the sacrifice of her twenty-four-yea year
old son, DR.. Lamar K. TuttIe, of No.
220 West Fifty ninth street.
In order to save his mothers arm.
the flesh of which had been torn away,
pr. futile yielded to the surgeon s
knife, grating forty pieces of skin.
The forty pieces of skim each as
big as a pea, were taken from the son s
right arm. Aside from the pain and
soreness, the young man experienced
no i'll effects from the operation.
DR.. William H. Sherman surgeon OF
st. Johns hospital, Yonkers, who
treated Mrs. TuttIe's bruised arm,
which at one time it was thought must
pc amputated, pronounced the opera
ton of two weeks an assured success.
Within another week young DR..
futile will again submit to the sur
geon's knife and the last ten pieces of
skin deemed necessary by the physi-
clans will be grated.
Mrs. futile win remain in her wire
cage until the ligaments are formally
tured bones knit together. With the
bones once set, the wire framework,
holding the injured body in place, al
lows of more freedom to permit the
work of growth.
Mrs. futile was terribly injured in a
runaway on August s on Riverdale ave
nue., Yonkers. For two weeks her life
was despaired of. That she is on the
road to recovery is regarded by doctors
as a wonderful surgical achievement
Besides sustaining bad scalp wound
her left ankle broken, the right ankle
seemed inevitable, and the right leg
and thigh broken in three places, Mrs.
Tuttle's left arm was SO badly injured
that the flesh hung in ribbons from
the wrist to the elbow.
The morning after the accident MRS
futile was removed to St. Johns hos
pital. Yonkers. For two weeks small
army of physicians, internes and nurses
moved in and out of the sick room,
working with all the ingenuity Of a
well organized life-saving corps
1t win be some weeks yet before mrs
futile is removed to her home, asld she
stin suffers intense pain from the m
jured sciatic nerve.
ssBut." said Mrs. futile. cheerfully
in her flower bedecked hospital room
81 can bear the pain now better, since
am so near to recovery. At first
when I saw how anxious my family
and my friends were for my recovery
and how kind everybody was, l
screwed up my courage and just made
UP my mind I would pull through.
with Mrs futile at the time of the
accident were her mother, Mrs A c
Kepley, who lives with her, Mrs. Fran
ces Rosenblatt. of No. 572 South
Broadway, Yonkers, and Mrs. S. Wat
erman, of No. 80 Cornell avenue, Yon-
kers The accident occurred on the
first anniversary of serious runaway
in which Mrs. Kepley received injuries
from which she was just recovering
From the latest runaway Mrs. KEEP
ley is suffering with a sprained ankle,
scalp bruises and a fractured collar.
bone Mrs. Rosenblatt sustained a
fracture of the left arm. a dislocated
thumb and decorations Of the face and
arms. Mrs Waterman's collarbone was
broken and she had bad scalp wound
and contusions.
The party was driving through
Kfngsbridge, and at independence ave-
nue. the horse SHE'D at a pile of sand
and bolted. Striking a telegraph pole,
the trap was overturned. throwing
Mrs. futile against a stone wall.