The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-15
ARM SHAT TERED
BY PASSING As GAR.
Passenger Painfully Hurt i'll Re-
markablc Manner OH Broad
and Main Street Line.
WAS LOOKING AT ! WATCH
Elbow Projected Slightly from
Window and Was Violently
Struck.

While returning from lakewood on a
Broad and Main street car, near the
soldiers Home station, on Robinson
street Mr.. Cloyd Watkins, of Raleigh,
\ c., ali engineer on tho Sea board Air
Line Railroad, was painfully injured
last night in a somewhat remarkable
manner. MI. Watkins, who runs reg
ulnrly between here and Raleigh. pulled
No. &C. the fast passenger train. into
later in the evening, in company With
his friend, Mr.. c. r. Ransom, also an
engineer of the Seaboard road, who
makes his home in Raleigh, took the
car to lakewood to rest and cool OFT.
After spending some time at the park,
the two started back to Richmond on
cur $50 of the Broad and Main Street
llne This car is one of the regular
double,ruck cars, and though not SO
big as the new Main Street cars, is
quite wide car, having ali aisle up
the centre. With seats on both sides.
Arm Broken.
The two men took the second cross
scat from the rear, on the left side,
Watkins sitting by the window with
Ransom on his right by the aisle.
After running some five or six
blocks. MIR. Watkins lifted his left hand
to take his watch out Of his upper coat
pocket. He withdrew the watch and
holding it in his hand remarked, 1t
is just 1920" when his raised elbow
was struck by a passing car, or by
some protection from it.
His whole arm was ierked back out
of the window between the open bars
that guard these cars. The watch was
dropped to the ground, and when the
arm was brought back, 1t was found to
be shattered at the elbow, seeming to
be broken above and below, and bleed
ing profusely. The passing car. which
was No. 53S of the Broad and Main
| line. in charge of NTotorman A. c..
| Barnes and Conductor r. c. Raflet, did
J not seem to know of any damage, and
I proceeded on its way without stopping.
| AS soon as it was ascertaned that
! Mr.. Watkins was badly hurt, the east
! bound car, in charge OF Motorman r..
! j. Applewhite and Conductor +. NJ. Nc
Leavy, was speeded on down Broad
\ Street to the house of Engine Company
/ No. 10. at Lombardy and Broad Streets.
where the injured man was lifted in
| and made us comfortable as possible.
1 Cars We're sent out from Benner's
j garage, next door, in search of a doc
1 q
/ Nelson and DR.. Upshur arrived, the
man, making q record run from the
station on North Second Street. AS
soon as the wounds could be bound to
stop the flow OF blood, Mr.. Watkins
was taken in the ambulance to the Vir-
GINA Hospital where every possible
attention was given him. Drs Upshur
Nelson and Hinchman made careful
examination and found a COMPOUND
fracture of the elbow, with break il
/. the upper arm The arm was set las
night shortly before midnight, and the
doctors have good hopes OF saving tn,
: injured member, although it is doubt
full If il will ever be as strong az before
! Mr.. Watkins is a young married man
His wife, who is visiting'in Asheville
N, c., was notified last night of he
| husbands accident, and will probabl,
reach Richmond to-day.
High Speed.
f Later last night the trackmen o
), the Passenger and Powere Compan
' picked up the watch dropped by NJ,
: Watkins at the time of the ,acciden
:. just opposite the Soldiers Home stoI
d The officials Of the company state tina
G along here is a straight stretch @
track, and they are at loss to &C
lSoull loI TIE 5dctIucHL, sllice LneTe ma
always appeared to be an abundance {
clearage way between the passing car
Robinson Street along this stretch
I, very little used except by the stree
cars, and the speed is usually consider
able. Mr.. Ransom, the young enginee
who was accompanying Mr.. Watkin
|. said that the car on which they wei
riding was moving at a good rate
speed, but that he did not notice tt
Other car until the moment of the a
cident