The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-17
COLLEGE STUDENT
BADLY CUT BY.
BROKEN GLASS
Fell and Thrust Hand Through
Hotel Door
UGLY CASH IN FOREARM
Artery Was Severed and Young Man
Lost Much Blood Before Wound
Was Closed

George NJ. Cheney. a junior at viii
liams college and one of the
members of the baseball team which
opened the season with Bennington
Saturday afternoon, slipped on the
Putnam house piazza late in the eve
ming and in falling thrust his right
hand through the glass in the South
street door. The glass was shattered
and the young mans forearm was so
badly cut that two physicians were
obliged to work over him until day
| light Sunday morning to dress the
wound.
Cheney was hurrying into the hotel
| for his suit case to catch the last car
over the Bennington and North Ad-
arms line which leaves here at 11.45.
| The wood floor of the piazza had re-
Gently been washed down with a hose
and was exceedingly slippery. AS the
young man slipped he put out his
hand to save himself from a fall and
the arm went through the glass max
| ing a hole one and one-half feet in
diameter.
| Several persons who were in the vic
unity at once realized that the young
man was badly hurt. Blood was
squirting from the wound in big jets
and 1t was apparent that one or more
of the large arteries have been sever
ed. Edward j. Davenport who was in
front of the hotel at the time
and a fellow student hurried the in
| jured young man across South street
and along Main TO w. l.. Gokay's drug
| store. Mr. Gokay was just about to
close when Davenport and the two
college boys came plunging through the
| store toward the prescription room
| leaving a broad trail of blood behind
| them. II was instantly apparent to
Mr.. Gokay that Cheney was losing vi
tai fluid at a rate that in short time
would put the boy beyond all human
aid. Quickly knotting a towel above
the jagged cut in the arm he twisted
il tight and fortunately obtained
pressure upon the right spot to check
the hemorrhage
1t was some time before medical as
sistance could be reached by telephone
but two physicians were at length in
charge of the case. Capt. ]. b. Han
non of Company X happened to be in
| the drug store at the time the injur-
ed student and his companions arriv-
ed and at once went to the armory
across the street for co. Some
blankets were obtained from Mrs NJ
l.. Brownell of the Whitney and the
prescription Office was soon turned
into an impromptu operating room.
The courage displayed by young
Cheney during the long ordeal that
followed was marvellous. He refused
TO be placed under the influence of an
anesthetic and the only stimulant that
was used to carry him through four
hours of agony was a single glass of
whiskey, AS he swallowed the liquor
he remarked. 1T may seem to be
joke to say it but that is the first
drink of whiskey ever took in my
life
The liberation made by the heavy
glass was naturally rough with no
clean cut edges as would have been
the case had the injury been inflicted
by knife or other steel instrument
Beginning close to the hand the mus
Giles were torn backward half way TO
the elbow. To properly connect the
lacerated tissue so that the patient
would be removed as far as possible
from the danger of permanent injury
was tedious process. The physic-
ians had willing helpers to hold the
electric lights at the proper angle and
to restrain the involuntary muscular
action of young Cheney's uninjured
arm. During the entire operation the
little fellow who only weighs 125
pounds, never uttered complaint or
a groan and at AIS Sunday morning
with the assistance of the physicians
walked back to the Putnam house and
was put to bed.
Sunday forenoon his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. s. B. Cheney and his sister,
Miss Ethel Cheney arrived here from
North Adams and were with their son
and brother during the day. The ply
sicians are of the opinion that there
will be no permanent injury to the
arm but there is not the slightest
doubt that the scrub" nine at Will
liams will have to have another third
baseman for the remainder of the
present season.
Cheney played five games at third
base with the Bennington team last
season and made a large number of
friends here by his quiet, gentlemanly
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