The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-04-18
HIGHLAND.
April Is, 1906

MIS-. hdCnel lnOrnDuTR anu uduR nVtI
on last Tuesday.
Percy Green and Miss Mabel Beck,
of Wilmington College, spent Satur-
day and Sunday with their parents at
this place
A little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Mcpherson, aged four months,
died Friday evening and was buried
at Leesburg Sunday afternoon.
Miss Mary Boatright spent Satur-
day and Sunday with her parents at
Russell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles johnson we're
guests of Wilmington friends Friday
night and Saturday.
Mrs. Wesley Borden, of Mt. Victory
was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Jos.
Hoskins a few lays last week and at
tended the funeral of w. B. Hoskins,
on Sunday.
c. G. Wood, of Columbus, spent last
week with his parents, r. o. Wood
and wife.
Mrs. John Emish and little son, Will
bur, after spending a few days with
relatives at Mineral, returned home
last week.
r.. Il. Terrell was transacting busi-
ness in Columbus part of last week.
Mrs. Mary Dixson, of Chillicothe, is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. John Emish
and other relatives here.
Mrs. r. II. Terrell was the guest of
Wilmington friends the latter part of
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. McQuillan, of
Cleveland, we're called to the home of
the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jos.
Hoskius, by the death of their son,
W. b. Hoskins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Milholland and
Mrs B. Head, of Greenfield, we're the
guests of relatives here Saturday and
Sunday.
Mrs. o. B. Savage and daughter,
Estella, of Wilmington, are guests of
Mrs. E. s. Judkins.
The following account of the death
of W. B. Hoskins we copy from a
Salida paper of April o.:
A large, healthy, fine looking young
man was carried on a stretcher from
the first section of passenger train
No. 8, to an ambulance last Saturday
morning and hastily driven to the
Rio Grande hospital. There were a
number of persons at the depot that
morning and all were anxious to know
who the patient was, and what his
injuries we're, but all were disappoint.
edin gaining responseto their anxiety
The young man had no friends at
hand and there were none to pro
nounce his name, recite his troubles
or tell where he came from. At the
hospital he mustered up enough
strength ard courage to tell the chief
surgeon and nurses at hand that his
name was W. b. Hoskins, his home iu
Highland, Ohio, and that he was beat
ing his way across the country to
California where labor was In demand
and the wage scale good. The lef:
leg of this robust fellow was horribly
crushed and mangled and he could
easily see that he must complete lifes
journey minus the member but was
possessed of plenty of nerve was even
cheerful. He was placed upon an
operating table and withstood the
amputation, but was so weakened
from the loss of blood on the trip from
Eagle to this point,l that those in
attendance had but faint hope for
survival. He rallied for few hours,
however, after salt had been infected
into his veins and for a time there
seemed bare chance for life, but the
grim reaper was so determined In
plying his vocation, that his advances
could not be checked and death re-
suited sunday afternoon. The story
of how Hoskins met his death was told
by himself few hours before his life
went out. He was riding on the pilot
of an engine pulling the second section
of No. and when near Eagle the
head light went out. The engineer
began to slow up and he thinking the
train about to stop at the station
jumped off to avoid detection. He
landed inside the rails and was caught
beneath the wheels. Conductor Ed
Evans had him taken into the Eagle
depot where local physician did all
he could and saw him safely boarded
on No. for this point an hour after
the accident.
FAIRFAX.
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