The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-24

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 Hospital Shortly After
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 With both legs mangled to beyond a semblance of human shape, one of them torn off and the other hanging by a shred, a runaway boy from Bal timore, Md, practically dying beside the railroad tracks near Avon park early this morning with his pluck and fortitude thrilled a group of early morning pedestrians who gathered about him while he waited for the ar rival of an ambulance from Bridge port.
 The youngster, weak from lack of food and tired by his days and nights of train riding. en route from Balti- more, Md, to Providence, R. l., slip ped from a freight car at an early morning train rolled into the town of Stratford before o'clock this morn ing, and when two chance acquaint-
 
 same train, got to his side, they found him fatally hurt, lying with mangled legs between the rails, his bruised body and bloodstained head outside the outer rails.
 I'm done for, fellows he said, as they drew near and supporting him. self with his arms, which were unhurt, he got into a half sitting posture.
 eff could have found Gene Me- hal pened to me-
 Hopeful that his life might yet be saved, despite his terrible injuries, his comrades ran across lots to the stor- age barns of the Connecticut Go. Their cries brought the watchman, Joseph Kingston, in Avon street. near the barns. MT. Kingston's house is the only one in the near neighborhood equipped with a telephone. They phoned into the emergency hospitaI, and asked Dr. McQueeney, the night ambulance surgeon, to come to the assistance of the runaway.
 The scene of the accident is we'll in the town of Stratford. It is against the rules of the emergency hospital for the ambulance to answer calls be- yond the city line, unless special per- mission is obtained. Dr. McQueeney said he would seek the needed permits
 
 rush the horse drawn ambulance to the scene. The automobile ambulance, is laid up for a general overhauling.
 Dr. McQueeney couldn't get in touch with any of the officials of the chari- ties department, and failing in locat- ing them decided to take the responsi- biiity of an infraction of the rules, and he haStened without further delay to the scene.
 pr. McOueeney found Alexander very weak.
 '.Am I going to die. doctor?" he ask ed. as soon as the surgeon had an op- portunity to see him.
 Looks pretty bad" admitted the ambulance surgeon.
 1T thought so,' echoed the lad.
 Thens before the doctor had an op- portunity to interrogate him. he said. 'Tm George Alexander, 1236 South Charles street. Baltimore, Md. My father is William Alexander. Both my parents are living"
 Dr. McQueeney and bystanders plac- ed the lad on a stretcher, carried him into the ambulance and took him to the Bridgeport hospital.
 There it was found that the left leg was crushed from about one third distance from the hip to the knee, and the right leg crushed from about one third the distance above the knee. The right foot was gone and the leg was mangled beyond recognition. The left foot remained but that too was horri- bly, crushed.
 Alexander was inclined to talk, and the doctor kept him engaged in con- yertion to keep his mind from hIS suffering as far as possible.
 He said he got to Bridgeport late yesterday. He had been "beating'' his way from Baltimore, and when he neared Bridgeport he thought that he would look up Gene McCann. He knew McCann by reputation as a fam because like himself he was Balti- morian. He felt confident that if he could see the ball player, who hail. ed from his home town, he would have no trouble in getting fare to reach his destination, Providence. He was keeping clear of the police who were on the watch for train riders
 But he found to his disappointment that McCann and his team were out of the city. and he had to make shift for himself. Early this morning he was at the extreme east boundary of the East End freight yards. A rail- road watchman gave chase and he and his chance acquaintances fled towards Stratford, where beyond the vision of the yards watchmen they awaited a train.
 Young Alexander was the first to try to leap the train. He overestimat- ed his strength. and lost his grip on the railroad irons. With a scream of fear as he realized his impending fate. he dropped beneath the train.
 There was very little hope for the lad when he reached the Bridgeport hospital But he was placed upon the operating table and the amputation of the mangled limbs completed. He died shortly afterwards. about 10:30 Messages were sent to Baltimore to notify his parents.
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