, 1906-08-14
THOMAS McEWEN MEETS WITH
A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT
WHILE HAULING LOAD
TO STRONG MINE.
Team Runs Away, Throwing Wagon
and Driver Down Hundred-Foot
Embankment, Wheel Striking the
Mans Only Lower Limb-one
Horse Killed and other Hurt
Paul Berner Accidentally Wounded

TdpneT, VINO lOSL d lSS III d oiliONN
accident a few years ago, was brought
to the city at o o today by H. D..
Richardson, who found him lying help
less and almost dead on the top of the
hills east of the city, at $50 this morn
ing, with a broken leg and with some
severe bruises on his head. Mr.. Nc
Even had lain in the open since about
8 o'clock last night, unable to make his
way to safety or to attract attention to
his condition. That he is not dead is
due, perhaps, to his rugged constitu-
ton and strength of will. Mr.. Richard
son was passing the spot in his buggy
and was seen by Mr.. McEwen, who was
on high ground, and who called to the
ranchman. The latter brought him to
the city and delivered him to the ma
iron at the hospital, DR.. Miller being
summoned to attend him.
One Horse Was Killed.
MI. McEwen was en- route to the
Strong mine with a two horse team
and wagon, the wagon having about
1,5O0 pounds of supplies for the camp
and the mine at Leslie. The horses
became frightened and started to run
away overturning the wagon and
throwing the driver to the ground.
The wagon was literally tori to pieces,
its contents scattered about, one of the
horses was instantly killed, its neck
heinG broken Ia ze upsettiEg Of the
wagon, and the other was quite badly
Injured. Mr.. McEwen had the bones
of his lower leg broken. He managed
to reach the live horse and cut it loose
from the harness, and it was standing
beside the driver when Mr.. Richardson
came up this morning. The other
horse was some distance away, the vio-
lence of the struggle serving to free it
from the harness.
Had Bound Board to Limb.
Mr.. McEwen, who says he did not
lose consciousness in the nearly twelve
hours he lay helpless on the mountain
top, had managed to get hold of a piece
of board, to which he dashed his
wounded leg. He tried to get up IN
his foot and mount the wounded horse,
but was unable to dc so, and when Mr..
Richardson reached him he was abso.
lutely helpless. Goo only knows how
he suffered through the long night,
with not a sound to cheer him, with
the rain beating down upon him, with
every sense dulled with pain and with
no succor in sight or sound. Mr..
Richardson was barely able to help
numbed was he and so upset was Mr..
Richardson by his find.
Fell Hundred Feet.
McEwen says the wagon went over
an embankment at least 100 feet. He
fell with his leg against a boulder,
the wheel of the wagon striking the
limb midway between the ankle and
knee, producing a fracture of the bone
n the tire of the wheel grinding the
flesh of the leg. The wound on his
face was made by the kick of the
horse.
Hard Ride To City.
Once McEwen had been helped into
the single seated buggy, and the trip to
the city undertaken, it was found that
heroic measures would be necessary to
keep the man on the seat. The leg had
been dashed to the i~mprovised splint
and this was placed on the dashboard
OF the vehicle, being tied there to keep
1t from sliding off and dragging the
man to the wheels. 1t was a long hard
ride, the pain driving the injured man
to groan in the very anguish of his soul
and the sight upsetting the ranchman,
whose pity for it al Twas so great that
he himself, When his mission ended
and McEwen had been placed on a col
at the hospital, under the watchful care
of Mrs. Spence, the matron, came neal
collapsing.
Can Give Little Account.
McEwen can tell little of what hap
pened. He says the horses became
frightened and ran. They left the roaC
n the wagon was overturned, severa
hundred feet from the driveway. The
driver was injured by the fall and tht
horse was killed instantly, its neck be
ing broken. The other horse was no
freed from the harness, and how lont
II lay there without struggling to ge
VI the driver could not tell. BY drag
ging himself forward, McEwen wa
able to cut the straps that held tn,
horse to the wreck of the wagon ant
undertake his own plans for riding thu