Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-01
PIuCky Riders Injury Causes
Heart Failure for Tender
Companion.
CONDITION OF BOTH CRITICAL
Word from Hospital Is That Recovery
Is Doubtful--Nfany Queries
Over the Telephone.

When told that Monday evening her
husband Norman c. Hopper. bicycle
rider par excellence and the most pop
ular little fellow in the racing world,
had suffered an accident that might
cost him his life. Mrs. Hopper was
seized with heart trouble. From St
Marks hospital, where both sufferers
We're taken, the report comes that hus-
band and wife may quit this life to-
gether; both are low and their recovery
Is announced as extremely doubtful. At
1880 this morning the message was
Both had rather peaceful evening;
there is no change in others condition,
but the attending physicians and nuTs-
es still refuse to give out a statement
which might be cause for hope"
MANY INQUIRIES MADE.
SO popular is Norman c. Hopper that
hundreds OF telephone inquiries have
been made at the hospital every few
hours since Monday evening. So con-
slant was the ringing of all bells that
those in charge of the institution made
arrangements with the information bu-
reaus of both telephone companies to
keep them posted so they, in turn
can keep the public posted on the BIZ
| cycle riders condition, Attaches of the
! hospital report that all day and all
| night inquiries have been keeping them
| sitting at the telephone desks. Never
! has there been greater worry exhibited
| over the condition of an inmate of the
| hospital. All are watching Hoppers
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| plucky little rider may pull through.
The physicians say grit is the only
| thing that can lend aid The riders
who knew Hopper feel there Is yet
| ray of hope. even though faint, that the
grit that carried Hop over the tape
for more than one winning. will carry
him through his present struggle with
death.
INJURIES ARE TERRIBLE.
Hopper's injuries were terrible: the
long splinter pierced his abdomen and
cut his intestines in six or seven places.
Peritonitis. internal blood poisoning. Ia
what Is most feared. Hopper spent a
peaceful night last night, but was low
| err This morning his condition saw no
change.
1t has been agreed that when
the rear tire came off IL threw him to
the track. Because he had reached
j SIStu NHlie IoiiOWlUH >
motor was the cause of his slide from
the 30-yard mark on the south side
of the track past the 60-yard mark on
the side He midgt have slid hundred
times over the same stretch of track
and escaped with nothing more serious
than q scratch.
IL Hopper RECEIVERS 1t will be sur
prise; that Is the truest way to describe
his condition from the reports received
from the bedside, IL he RECEIVERS 1t will
be against overwhelming odds.
CONDITION THIS AFTERNOON.
Mrs. Hopper. wife of the little bicycle
rider who was hurt Monday evening,
Is up and about; her presence at the
bedside may aid Hopper In his fight
against death. The last message re-
ceived from the hospital was that Hop
per was resting fairly comfortable but
the outcome could not be even guessed
at yet Mrs. Hopper was taken to the
hospital seriously Ill after receiving
news of her husbands accident. but this
morning saw her improve wonderfully
She seemed to summon every ounce of
strength that she might give courage to
her terribly injured husband