Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-03

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DIR. Stewart about II o'clock, and the
word was passed to the waiting neigh
borS.
About midnight DIR. jenkins came.
The patient then was in better condi-
ton. The effect of the gas is to dis
integrate the corpuscles of the blood
and on that account the physicians
were unable to determine what the
final result of the case would be. They
were hopeful, however, at that hour
that the man would pull through.
Notifying the Wife
While efforts were being made to re-
store life to Mr.. Stafford equally
strenuous efforts were. being put forth
in other directions to get word of the
accident to Mrs. Stafford in Catalina
and to bring her back to her home.
Mr.. Rudesill took the first car to Los
--ngeles intending to endeavor to get
word to Catalina by wireless telegraph
or through an emergency yacht of the
Banning company.
From other sources word was sent to
San Pedro asking that a yacht be dis
patched to the island to notify the wife
she was needed in Highland Park i'm
mediately.
1t developed that no wireless message
could be forwarded till after daylight
as no operators are on duty at night,
but not discouraged S. Jacoby, a realty
agent in the Pacific Electric building,
started for San .dro determined to put
off in yacht at any cost and get word
to Mrs. Stanford.
Her stopping place in the island was
not known, though she had her two lit
tie girls with her. Because of the fact
that Mr.. Stafford spent several DAYS
there it was believed that she could
easily be located if only the watery
chasm could be spanned by some
means.
Yacht the Only Means
The yacht it is thought will reach the
island before daylight, however, in
which event Mrs. Stafford will be
brought back to the mainland at once,
She is a Santa Ana woman, her pa
rents and brothers and sisters residing
there.
Ihe Stahords own the house in which
they live and another one in the same
block on Avenue Fifty-eight.
AT midnight DR.. Stewart said:
Our patients pulse is getting a little
better. Every long breath we can in
duce him to take is a hopeful sign. He
is still unconscious but is gaining some
what. We will know better in the
morning just what to hope for
Mr.. Rudesill said concerning his
friends accident:
Il am surprised that Mr.. Stafford
lives at all after his experience. We
had no reason to expect anything
wrong except that it seemed strange
that he did not come over to our house
for breakfast as he promised AS his
wife was away, we asked him last night
hn pnft
make himself at home at Mr.. Smiths
place here and when he failed we sup
posed that he had only oversight.
But 1 walked over to his house this
morning to make sure of it. | saw his
hat hanging in the hall and knew that
he came home all right
"Neighbors told me they saw him
raise the blinds in his bedroom, too. l
gave the matter no further thought
until got home, when Mr. Smith and
] broke into the house. We were al
most overcome by the gas. Mr.. Stat
ford lay there in his night shirt. The
heaters upper vent was broken. and
/ there 1t appears the trouble lay.
Mr.. Stafford must have fallen over
against the heater and remained un-
/ conscious all the time surrounded by
| the fatal gas"
| DR.. Watson-R Reeves is authority for
lhe statement that Mr. Stafford has
not been in the best of health lately,
being subject to fainting spells. This
was not known to the neighobrs, how
! ever.
Mr.. Stafford is past 40 years old and
high up in the engineering profession.
Engineering His Lifs's Work
BY birth and choice City Engineer
| Stafford's home has always been South
ern California. His childhood was
! spent at Santa Ana, where he received
his early education. He finished his
studies in civil engineering at the Uni
Versity Of Southern California, and
since he left college he has been al
] most continually an engineer i'm the
public employ. In 1886 he was elected
county surveyor and served i'm that ca
pacity for two years.
After that, from time to time, he
was deputy in the office of the city
engineer and was finally appointed
! permanently to that position by f. III.
Olmsted in 1899. Two years later Mr..
Stafford contested with Mr.. Olmsted
for election to city engineer and won
the plum. Since then he has been con-
secutiyely city engineer, being elected
to that position three times.
During the last few years Mr.. Staf-
ford has planned the outfall sewer. a
gigantic task, which few municipal en-
gineers would undertake He has near
ly carried this TO a successful compile
tion, and the controversy between the
city and the contractors Is now on over
the completion of the tunnel section of
the big bore.