The daily sentinel., 1912-05-04
CRUSHED
UNDER WAGON;
IS FATALLY HURT

= Dan Hawkins, the well known :,
:, freighter. was the victim of II :,
= terrible accident yesterday morn {,
= ing, from which there is no as Z,
!, surance he will recover, says the 3
: Plateau Voice of Friday. :,
:, 3 {, :, !, 2 ggs,ggs
1t seems Mr. Hawkins was coming
in from De Beque. heavily loaded
with flour and sugar from Humes-
tons store. in company with Lee
Armour and his son, Willie Ar
mour. The Armour teams were
ahead of Mr.. Hawkins, Lee Armour
being in the lead.
The accident occurred on the north
twin grade, about y miles north
of Atwell bridge. The Armour out
fits made the grade safely; but it
seems Hawkins failed to make the
turn in time. near the top of the
grade. and his wagon went over into
the gulch The wagon must have
struck little bench few feet down
and checked while the load scooted
on down into the canon.
Willie Armour heard or saw the
trouble and shouted to his father.
who looked back in time to see the
wagon land in the gulch. He stop
ped his team and ran back up the
grade to the wreck. where he found
Mr.. Hawkins lying beneath the terri
fled wheel team in such manner
that the off horse in struggling to
get up was kicking the PROSTATE man
in the face and chest. Armour caught
Hawkins by the legs and managed to
drag him from beneath the horses.
He then placed Willie on one of the
Hawkins leaders, which had not gone
off the grade. and despatched him
to Atwells to summon help.
II chanced that when Dr. Craig
received the call the Crawford auto
mobile was in town, and at the doc
tors request the driver took him at
once to the scene of the accident. He
arrived about 20 minutes after it
occurred.
Mr. Hawkins was taken to DR..
Craig's office and given medical at
tention. 1t was found his chest was
terribly crushed and bruised. three
ribs were broken and blood was run
ming from his mouth. His face was
a mass of cuts and bruises. but con-
trary to first reports his skull was
not crushed. There was a deep cut
on his head. possibly causing a small
break in the skull
The injured man was in an un-
conscious state. though he seemed
conscious of the pain, and resisted
while his wounds were being washed
and dressed.
Mr.. Humeston. on hearing of the
terrible accident. secured the Guth-
rie automobile and went at once to
Mesa. where he arranged to have
the injured man given every at
tention.
The accident occurred at about II
o clock yesterday. and as the Voice
goes 10 press there is no apparent
change in Mr.. Hawkins condition.
His older children have been sum
moned from Hotchkiss. DR.. Craig
cannot yet determine whether or not
the injuries will prove fatal.
When Mr.. Armour had done all he
could for the injured man he turned
his attention to the team which was
down and got the horses up. They
We're not injured to speak of. The
wagon was badly smashed. especially
the box, and probably a dozen sacks
or sugar and flour were burst and
NJ or in part wnsted. However, Mr..
Humeston says the financial loss will
be light compared with what he sun
posed it would be.
Dan Hawkins is a man of small
means. hard worker. depending on
his daily earning to support his fam
lily. OF his six motherless children
four are unmarried and dependent
upon him. Both Mr. Hawkins and
his children have the utmost sympa-
thy of their neighbors.