The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-16
MINNIE GEuRTS' ARM
LIKELY TO Be SAVED
Surgeons Now Believe That
Amputation Will Not Be-
come Necessary.
FATHER TO GIVE SKIN
Man Whose Identity Is Not
Known Offers to Render
Heroic Aid.
FATHER TO GIVE SKIN

There is possibility that the right
arm of Minnie Courts, which was
crushed and burned last Monday after
noon when il was drawn into n hot
mangle at the Model laundry, Will not
he amputatcd, according to DR.. II. b.
Spraguc, assistant city physician, who
is attending the injured girl. SO much
public sympathy has Scen caused by
the accident 10 the 17-year-old laundry
worker that 1t has been necessary TO
remove her from the ward to a private
room.
For the last two days Miss Courts
had been the constant recipient of
calls from those vino have interest in
the case. Among her callers arc society
women, business mon, as we'll Us her fel-
low laundry workers The stream of
visitors assumed such proportions yes
terday that other patients in the ward
were disturbed, and it became necessary
to place the injured girl in a private
room.
The 81. Mark 5 Hospital Aid society
offered to bear any expense
which might accrue in affording the
young woman comfort or medical or
hospital assistance.
Offers Skin for Grating.
DR.. Sprague told last night of a
singular development in the case; of
man, who out of mere sympathy for the
girl, had offered to give some of his
own flesh aud skin that her arm might
be grated to its proper proportions.
Although this man has called DR..
Sprague over the telephone TO inquire
into the girl S condition dozen times
since last Monday, be would not give
mis- name 10 the physician.
The afternoon after the news of the
accident was published the unidentified
nan called DR.. Sprague up and in
luired after Miss Teurts IS condition
He told the doctor that he could call
ipon him for money or any other as
iistance within his power 10 give. He
llso told Dr. Sprague that he would
communicate with him each day, which
,ledge the stranger has fulfilled.
When the doctor told the unknown
nan yesterday that there was a posi-
'Ility of saving the arm by q process
# skin and flesh grating, the man
'ffered, and almost begged. said DR..
'pragle. that he might give some of his
kin and flesh that the girl s arm might
lot he disfgured
However. this will not he necessary,
8 j. W. Courts, the girl s father. has
ecided that the necessary amount of
kin and flesh be removed from his
ody.
Amputation Not Necessary
'Parts of the injured member" said
)r. Sprague last night, "aro dead, and |
ther portions nre still alive. The dead |
ortions will be allowed to slough away, |
ftcr which new flesh and skin will be |
RATED to what remains Of the arm. 1t |
yas at first believed that amputaton
'ould be necAsary the day following
ne accident. Fortunately this proved |
OF to be the case -
Minnie Courts has eight brothers and !,
stcrs. and she had worked at the
Icdel laundry for six months While
noding sheet into The heavy rollers
the mangle her hand was caught and
ulled into the heavy machine. For
N minutes, despite the efforts Of en-
loyecs Of the laundry to release her,
ne lay over the hot rollers, her arm
rushed to point above the elbow and
lc skin and flesh of her imprisoned
NIB slowly cooking
However. she bore up bravely under
,e terrible suffering, and did not
Soon until her arm was taken from
ic mangle.