Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-30
ACCIDENTS OF THE WEEK
1ieanings Concerning Injuries Sus-
tanned Here and There.

William Buckley, of Old Orchard
was thrown from his automobile
recently, and sustained compound
fracture of the left leg.
Walter Trefethen. the vo,,no can of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Trefethen fell Of
Peaks Island, where the family have
cottage, ana broke his collar bone.
Hazel. the bright little daughter of
John kingston, conductor on the Cane
division. Portland. met with n serious
accident. While visiting Mr.. Emerson
on douglass street, Portland. Hazel fell
from fence and broke her right arm
raymond Cole, aged seven years, fell
from ladder in the barn owned by
George Sherman. Hampden, where he
is boarding. and broke the large bone
in his wrist.
+. y. Covel of Larone. while having
the other DAY. caught his foot in the
gear or the moving machine. crushing
the lower part of the foot. 1t was i'm
possible at first to ascertain the full
extent OF the injury, but it is hoped
That the foot may be saved.
| While at work on telling machine
In the Morgan mattress factory. Port
| land, wednesday,. George James. 16
years OF age, caught his right hand in
the machinery severing two of his
| inlddie myers. The rest of the hand
| was quite badly bruised
| While Allen Goodsoe was at work
the other day painting in the bank
block at Milo, he jumped from a step
ladder to the floor and pierced his
|
yet fully recovered from another in
jury To his foot received last winter
| George Renouf. eight years old son
OF Deputy Sheriff Ludger j. Renouf,
fell from swing at his home in
| Blddeford on Beacon avenue recently.
his weight coming on his left arm and
flacturing both bones of the forearm
| near the wrist.
Percy Sprague, aged a. had his
right arm caught in a picker at the
cotton mill, Midtown, Tuesday after
noon, and was 50 badly Inangled that
! il became necessary to amputate it at
| the elbow. Fellow workmen We're
| obliged to take the machine apart in
order to liberate him.
| Fred Lampher of Belfast employed
| on the dredge Reliance, now at work
in Stockton harbor, fell from a small
boat there Saturday night and was
drowned. The body was recovered
Monday afternoon. Lampher was IS
years old, and leaves a wife and in
FAINT child in Belfast.
James Hodgkins, aged CO, a driver
for the Beechwood Ice Company.
Portland, was thrown from the ice
wagon several serious injuries. among
them being broken arm. 1t is
thought that the mule, attached to
the wagon. kicked, causing Mr.
Hodgkins to lose his balance and fall
He came to Portland from Sebago
| Lake.
While returning to Island Falls from
Bangor the other night. Harry Landers
aged % years of Island Falls. stepped
off the train at Sherman to get a drink
of water, and in trying to board the
train again fell under the ears mangl-
ing his leg below the knee. besides
receiving other wounds on his body
He was not noticed until the next
train came along half an hour later
which carried him to the Falls.
While attending to his duties in the
oxford paper mill at Rumford Falls
the other day, Robert Clunie. aged
about 20 years, in some manner was
caught in the telling of the machine
and carried around one of the rolls
| several times. one leg was broker
above the knee. the other knee was
dislocated and his body was terribly
! bruised. 1t is thought however thai
: he will experience no serious results.
Amos Fitzpatrick. Of Lisbon Fall:
aged about 65. a carpenter employed
on the construction of a residence fol-
Charles w. Whitehouse on Addison
street, fell from a staging on tho
: second story today and striking on :
|. concrete walk. died almost instantly
) It was believed he became dizzy as h'
was seen to pitch head first. Mr. Gil
!, patrick. who came here last Spflhs
from Lisbon where the most of his life
was passed, leaves Il widow.
While crossing the Penobscot river
near Sowadabscook stream in Hamp'
den on Thursday morning, Nelson
Wheeler. widower, aged Il years and {
peddIer of extracts, residing in Hamp
den. was drowned by falling from tn
boat. in which he standing was max
ling the passage toward Orringtoh
Mr.. Wheeler was old and weak and |
is thought that the labor of paddhnt
was too much for him and he lost nj:
balance in the exertion.
Della Hubert, n young girl of abou
La dozen years. who lives in Biddeforc
at Smiths corner. met with a pecuilal
laccident this noon in the yard OF th'
York mills, Saco. She was carrying
ldnner into the mills to some OF til'
members of her family, and started tt
walk across some planks which Were
laid across a ditch which had been dug
in connection with the excavations
for the new mill. when she slipped OH
land plunged head foremost into large
Den of mortar. six or eight feet below
She was nearly suffocated when she
WAS extricated from her perilous posi-
> ton but soon recovered from the
shock and was able to walk to hei
home with her sister.
George Johnson and Herbert Kerr OF
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