The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-06-13
FOURTEEN WEEKS SHE LAY
IN HOSPITAL UNCONSCIOUS
RegaIOIRg Senses, She Could Mol
Move Weights to Head and Legs
Pulled Fractured vertebrae Back
(By Associate ! Press. }

New York June i3-Another won
dertul cure has been effected by the
aid Of modern surgical science.
For fourteen weeks a girl with a
broken neck lay in a hospital un-
conscious Practically dead, she
has been restored to life and health,
Picked up for dead but saved
from the dead wagon before it start.
ed for he morgue. when a faint
3 gn OF lite was detected. eighteen
Fear-old Esther Harris. whose es-
cape from the Triangle fire last
year was made at the cost of
broken neck and back. has been
cured
Unable to move even finger for
eleven months after the tragedy. In
which li7 men and women were
Killed, she can now stand and walk
unasslsted, a feat rare in surgery
whose teachings are that in 4imost
every case Of total paralysis sesult-
ing from fracture of the neck the
victim never regains command oS
motAen
conscious. The doctors at ST. Vim
cents Hospital told her she had
only few weeks to live. Finally
she was taken home to die Then,
on the mere hope 1t might help, a
method old in lesser casse cases
but unprecedented in total disabiI-
ty was tried by the chief surgeon,
Dr Henry w Frauenthal. at the
Hospital for Deformitles aud Joint
Diseases.
Esther Now Walks Every Day.
4 worked beyond the most san
eulne expectations and after being
absolutely unable to move in the
bed for eleven months. Esther now
gels mp every day and walks a little
further than the first two steps she
took on Washngtons $ Birthday she
wears a stiff steel and leather har-
ness TO Support her neck hut in a
few months It is hoped this viii be
discarded and her escape from
leath In Vie Will be complete.
Esther owes her life to the cool
ness and nerve that enabled her TO
save herself when the last oppor-
unity was presented While it was
ler leadership that enabled score
)t others 10 escape incineration. IL
brought about her serious injuries.
She jumped for the elevator
abies ON the ninth floor of the
tanning building and started to
lide down. Immediately after her
man Jumped He lost his hold
nd fell His body struck the
iri as She had eached the sixth
.oor She hurted through the shaft
q the hasement where she fell on
cn 0f fAe cage
She landed ou her neck and BACK.
IN top OF her fell twenty other
us and men who had used the
My hope ot escape from the ere
aut0rv that the eighth and ninth
oors had been Transformed into.
ost All Sense Of Feeling.
The impact had broken her neck,
ct She did not lose consciousness
)r 80 hour or more after. But her
ansibiuties had been killed. She
-lt no pain Even when a heavy
ody fell directly across her legs
ne would not have known Il II she
ad not seen 1t. Then she swooned
was whiie ] nthat condition that
ne was removed from the Wash
etou place elevator shaft, from
iIch fort, bodies were taken, aud
be- was put in the dead pile for
lpment 10 the moreue. II vess
l.y as she was being loaded into
r. wagon than life movements were
1fIced and she was placed IN
Nincent's ambulance
Her story came TO light through
8ctou of Max Steure counsel
r Harris q Blanck. The arm own.
6 the Triangle Waist company.
nployers of the men and woDafS
no We're killed He made a gift ia
hall u his clients to the hospitai
which the girls cure had been
fected ana 20 other hospitals in
bich some of the injured were
eated esther Harris Is the niece
Isaac Harris, who with his part-
.r Blanck was tried on the charge
mauslaugh,er and acquitted
e9hts Attached 10 Legs ard Head
RS her was placed on a fiat board
.d a weight of fifteen pounds put
each leg at the foot and an equal
E ght swung from the head. These
ruy-dve pounds pulled and racked
" body into rigid position
herein each bone was stretched
IN rts ,,rona~ ..fape