The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-11-15

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before swine, so 10 speslSs for to Judge
by REMARKS we have heard they are
not appreciated hereabouts. He s1ould
he on the stan Of some yellow jour
NAL, The PoHce Gazette or The Sattr-
day Blade, for instance.
We are referring to the reporter who
wrote up tine wonderful story OF TIE
accident to q team and driver near
HouK as printed iii Fridriys Times.
| On, Ii was thriller anlh all 1t need
ed was a FEW words OF truth to make
| II as fine BIT of newspaper reai.sm
as ever we saw.
4 Beginning wttt thFfIlihg headlines
a half inch tam and algllalf column OF
|sub-nesdiTigA ann otIfieing FELL OVER
40 FOOT RREcIPicE WITH TWO
HORSES UPoNfffffa-if1eW York Man
Had Miraculous Escape from pe5th
on Road Near Houtt-Teann Fright
enedi at Road Machine and Backed
Over Rank-Bonnett ESCAPED With
Badly Fractured Le1-Was Brought to
Local Hospital" This literary genius
who should be drsmat.c editor OF
metropolitan paper then proceeded to
"a tale unfold" which for realistic IAN
gllage and dramatic word picturing
would make Crane or Wellnan green
with envy. He tells how two New
York Representative OF the American
Tobacco Company with two horses
and specially made wagon OF their
company" started to bill the country
between Hoult and Montana, passing
near Horrlt along road "bolnded on
one side by perpendicular ledge OF
rock and on the other by q prectptce
at least forty feet deep yosemite or
Colorado canyon not in 1t a little btu
the horses got scared at a stone
crusher' in operating and backed the
vehicle over the bank.
New comes the thrilling part. MI.
Bonnet tried without avail to eXtri-
cate himself, couM not do 50 ana the
Mortified "road men" saw the aPpa-
rently dead man buried beneath an
avalanche OF vehicle and struggling
horses Cthrills!). Bonnetts com1S9n.
ion arrives and he and the road mem
rush TO the unfortunate mans assist
ance Cn!. It is sckening sight to
see the wreckage and struggling
horses piled on top OF the man VINO
was apparently dead. CMore thrills
and yous hair raises your hat UP here)
1t is sal to note TINT the horses were
attended to first and after SO long n
moved to a nearby house. We were
much relieved on reading thus far
to find that the man twas still breath!
ing" Then he says 'fBrandy was al
mdnfstared and he returned to con-
sclousness." We were glad to !e'Tn
that the horses escaped but the We
hlcle twas completely demolished"
The article Statessthat the man is in
Cooks Hospital suffering from COM
pound STRUCTURE" of the leg. Now
we don't know what a compound
structure" is, hut judging from the
rest of tie article 1T must be some
thing Just fearfully awful
Now we are glad.=to testify to some
truth in this Article. There was a
tenn backed overtime etnbaliT ment
and the driver ilaIl a leg tnctuEed;l
all the rest was the results Of very
vivid imagination. AS the writer was
present and the only person there
when 1t occurred Cbeing road ma.
chine" stone crusher" and gang OF
"roaI lnen" all in one) we speak with
authority. II
Well Fritz mas often been accused
of having "wheels" but we hal no idea
we were both d road machine and
stone crusher. Undoubtedly the
DUtchman is "sCTne RGmkins."
Now seriously the real story is that |
Mr.. Alfred Bonnet and MFR. Arthur /
H. McSIOy, representing the FINER
Tobacco Company, makers OF Five
Brothers tobacco, was billing along |
the road. at this point the rosd is
in pad shape. very rough. 1t Is hound |
ed on one side by Ed Houtts pasture
FencEs and on the other by ravtue. |
The side about 45 degrees steep and
Torty feet deep. The writer was try
Ing to do what the road author.:+ les
should have Ilone-remove sGne large
limestone boulders. The team got rest
ess probably seeing the freshly brok-
an stone at tine side OF the road and
backed over, felt sure Mr.. Bennett
would be seriously injured or killed
and started to rush to his aid. Be
lore mad descended halfway to him
he had extricatetb himself from the
wreckage and standing on one foot,
said he believed one leg WIS broken
and asked IL i would go tell his COM
panion. I did 50 andi '.lso Summoned
more help from Hoult.
Mr. Bonnet was carried to MI. Y.
B. Satteriekl's AMI left in care OF MI
MoSlay and then we went back
some four or Ave or US, and eHtI:icat-
ed the horses after the man had been |
attended to. Mr.. Bennett was not I'M
a moment and showed much
grit.
longed to Mr.. Irwin, the liverymanr and
the wagon was little fiurt except the
top crushed of.
Is II any wonder that many people
say. swell what can one believe that
he sees in a newspaper" Such al'ti-
cles tend to discredtt honest newspa'
We have good reasons for believing
that a representative OF The Times
came down after everything was re-
moved interviewed none but looked
the ground over, imagined 1t all and
llraNE ON his fertile Imagination FOR