Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-07
Stealing Ride on Madcopa & Phoenix When Thrown or Kicked From Top of Car Sustaining Terrible Hurts,
Lay on Desert for Night and Day With Many Broken Bones Before Being DiScov- cred and Taken to Hospital,

PHOENIX, July Gone of the most horrible accidents that has been heard of in this vicinity for some time was reported by the train men of the Mar icopa & Phoenix road who arrived in the city yesterday morning. The ac- cident itself was not the most terrible part of the affair, which was made so by the attending circumstances. As a result of being kicked off or fall ing off westbound Southern Pacific ttain a few miles west of Maricopa, Antonio Morales had the bones Of both legs, his thigh, side and shoulder broken, and he lay on the desert with out attention from ten o'clock Sunday night until three o'clock Monday after noon. He is now in the Pinal county hospital at Florence,
 Antonio Morales is a negro who was born in Jamaica. When a very young man he was taken with number of his people to the island of CuDa and | most of his life he spent there, work 1 ing on tobacco plantation. He is now 25 years of age and for the past two years has been living the life of the ordinary hobo.
 He was riding on the top of a re- | frigerator car in the place where cars are iced and had been on the train | for several hours, having boarded it at Tucson. The train travelled, he said, at the rate of thirty miles an | hour and it was while the train was running at this speed that he fell or was kicked to the ground. His right | shoulder struck first. This was dis located, two ribs in his side were | broken, and the bones of his thigh and lower leg were broken. As near as | he could judge it was about ten clock Sunday right when this happened.
 Monday afternoon the foreman of | the section, riding to his section house saw Morales lying by the side of the right of way and picked him up and took him to Maricopa on his hand car. | This was about three o'clock in the afternoon, and for seventeen hours previous Morales had been on the desert suffering the most tortur1ng pain, without food and without water The suns rays had beaten down on his fevered body and nearly crazed him. Four trains had passed but none of the train men had caught sight of him.
 At Maricopa he was taken in charge by O. c. Smith, a deputy sheriff of Pinal county, and all that was possi. ble for his relief and comfort was done. He was placed aboard the morn, ing train and brought to Phoenix yes. terday morning and on the Phoenix & Eastern which left the city about nine o'clock he was taken to Florence. A telephone message from there yester Gay afternoon late said he would not live through the night. Internal in. jurles had been sustained while his weakened condition materially inter. feTed with the performing of an oper ation for his relief
 I If Morales does die he will likely be
 buried i1 a paupeT's grave but if the opportunity were given or if a move ment were started it is likely a more
 pretentious burial would be given him for the railroad men at Maricopa ant the train men who were in charge ot
 the train that brought him to Phoeni2
 and from there here to Florence say
 they never saw such a courageous suf ferer.