Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-03
INJURED ALONE
BESIDE TRACKS
H. S. Friday, Boy
Brakeman, Lost
Arm.
CONDUCTOR HIS BROTHER
Santa Fe Central Train Back
ed Until Lad Was Found
.a --.Fell From Car.

'D --.Fell From Car.
Knowing that his brother had fall
en- from the roof of a car and was
lying somewhere along the track, per-
haps dying, e. e. Friday, conductor
in charge of Santa Fe Central COM
blnation passenger and freight train
No. 2. northbound, Saturday night
pulled the bell cord frantically and
ordered the crew to back the train,
keeping close lookout for notion
less form beside the rails.
The conductor was almost craZed
with grief which was only increased
when the brother, Brakeman Harry
S. Friday q years old, was found with
his left arm crushed to a pulp below
the elbow and his face terribly mutt
lated. Rackel with pain and weak
from loss OF blood, the boy had
walked nearly mile and half to-
wards station from the spot where
he was injured. keeping his feet only
by the exercise of iron nerve.
AS the lights of the train, backing
to his rescue came in sight, he sank
weakly to the earth with a groan
and the next minute was clasped in
the strong arms of his brother who
carried him into the caboose and
placed him on two cushions upon the
floor.
The boy had saved himself from
bleeding to death by using his good
hand and his teeth in fastening a
soiled handkerchief about the bleed
ing arm, so tightly that it cut off the
flow of blood.
He then tried to clear away the
blood from the wounds on his face
but only succeeded in spreading 1t all
over his hair and clothing. When
picked up. he was pitiful sight.
As soon as the train arrived here
General Manager s. B. Grimshaw or,
dered the injured brakeman taken to
st. Vincent's Hospital, where he was
attended by Doctors ]. A. Massie and
]. M. Diaz.
Sunday afternoon, they found it
necessary to amputate the arm at the
elbow and to take Is stitches in the
wounds on the face.
This afternoon, Harry Friday is re-
ported as resting easy but terribly
weak from loss of blood and the ef-
fects of the shock he received, 1t Is
believed he will recover.
The Story Of the Accident.
Train No. 2 reached Williams Spur
at the top of Clarks hill at $40 p
m. and stop was made to test the
brakes and air, as is the custom
Brakeman Friday answered the signal
for brakes and scrambled out over the
slippery car roofs, in a driving rain
storm. Tt was then quite dark. The
train slowly began to move down the
hill Besides the engine and tender
there were four cars of sheep, car
of coal, the caboose and coach.
Brakeman Friday reached the brake
on the second car and with a brake
club, started to draw it up, in order to
have the car well under control down
the hill.
Suddenly he slipped. How the acci
dent happened is really not known but
the next minute the brakeman shot
over the edge of the car and down
upon the track. His face struck first
upon the edge of tie which cut ter
rble gashes in the flesh. The next
minute there was a sharp pain in the
left arm, and the wheels threw the
boy clear of the track to the right ot
way. Faint and sick, he sat up, trem
bling from fright and pain, to see the
rear lights of the train gliding off II
the darkness.
Realized Terrible Condition While
Helpless.
The boy knew he was terribly in
jured but it was some time before hi
could move enough to aid himself
Then he found that a severed arter.
in the wounded arm had poured out ;
dark red pool of blood and that h,
was fast bleeding to death. Brakeman
Friday knew that he must secure as
sistance at once. After binding hi
arm with handkerchief, he starte,
to walk, being forced often to stop fo
rest. He did not believe the trail
crew would miss him until the rul
had been completed.
Brakeman's Ambition to Be Railroa,
Man.
Brakeman Fridays ambition was t,
become good railroad man, thougl
he was little more than a boy. Gen
eral Manager s. B. Grimshaw sal,
that he had used the boy as extr,
conductor and had always found hin
hard working, careful and reliable. H
had been employed by the Santa F.
Central Railway about eight month
and came to Santa Fe from Steel City
Jefferson County, Nebraska, where h
has an aged father and mother living
Conductor Friday, the brother wit
whom the youthful brakeman mad
his home, feared that news Of the az
cident would prove serious to tn
aged parents at home so he sent ther
only a short message saying that tn
boy had broken his left arm. The
do not yet know that the sturdy So
who left home only few months age
will face the future with an empt