Arizona republican., 1913-09-02
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Jim Wellder Trampled Be meath Heels of Frantic Team and is Cut Up and Bruised, Narrowly Escap- ing Death

After riding the tongue of a wagon attached to a runaway team for over thirty yards, Jim Wellder was thrown beneath the feet of the fear mad dened animals and badly trampled yesterday afternoon about two o'clock, killed The team was being driven along Jackson street and just as they were opposite Second avenue a freight train passed, being backed up toward the switches in the east part Of town. The team immediately be- came frightened and started to run away Wellder managed to bring them to q stop. but not before they lad broken the neckyoke.
 Wtuder then got off his seat and went to the front of the team so he could repair the damage. Just as hc had got the tangled harness straight ened up, the train again passed him and the team became unmanageable d second time.
 Seeing the danger he was in, We'll der grabbed the tongue and managed to get astride of it, thinking that he could grab the brides and bring the team to a stop, but before he could accomplish his purpose the swinging tongue threw him beneath the hoOfs of his team and both horses and wagon passed over him.
 The frightened horses then cOntin- ned east along Jackson street and swerved south on Center In making the trun the wagon ran against the hydrant at the corner and carromed no 1E41 an jar caused the wheels of the wagon tC collapse and the wagon was smashed to kindling.
 Wellder was taken to the Sisters hospital where it was found that he had sustained several bad flesh wounds and his head and face were so badly cut that several stitches were requiIed to close the gaping wounds.
 Wender said at the hospital last night that he thought that the train crew saw that he had gotten down from his wagon and he expected they would stop until he could regain con- tcol of his team
 He said: T was coming east along Jackson street on my return from taking a load of sand from the eX- oavation for the Pratt Gilbert build ing. Just as 1 got to Second avenue a train was backed up along the Santa Fe tracks and as the road is not very wide there my team became frightened and started to run away. They did not get very far before 1 pulled them back up on their haunch- e, and in doing so they broke the breast yoke. I thought that the train crew saw what had happened and would stop, I jumped down off my seat and ran around to their heads and started to repair the yoke Just as I had got the harness strengthened out and was getting ready to fasten the tongue to the horses, the train passed again, and the horses made a lunge and broke away. The only thing that I could dc under the circumstances was tc make a grab at the tongue and try tc get up on it and then reach tht horses brides. I managed to ge on the tongue and I rode for ovel thirty yards. Just as I reached fol their heads the wagon ran into z small chuck hole and I was pitched off under their feet. The horses anC wagon both went over me and they cut me up quite a bit"
 At the hospital the nurses said tha Wellder had a cut on his right les that took several stitches to close d cut on the right cheek, one Ovel the right eye and one on the chin All these cuts required stitches tC close and caused him to lose a con- siderable amount of blood
 Notwithstanding his weakened anC bruised condition Wellder refused tC take any anesthetic and never whim- pered when the doctors sewed up the awful gashes caused by the accident
 Wellder is a native of Wilcox anC since his arrival in Phoenix he has been staying with his employer named Rhodes. His injuries vii confine him to bed for some little time.