The Mankato free press., 1913-05-02
Fell Back On The Omaha Track
After He Had Arisen
SUBJECT TO SINKING SPELLS
Jagged Hole Cut In Head; Number of
Bruises; His Condition Is
Serious
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
| David Jones, who has been EN-
ployed by c. W. Jessup, the dray,
man, for the past five years, was
very seriously injured about $40
/ O'Clock yesterday afternoon when he
was lifted from the railroad track,
/ where he had been seated and
hurled considerable distance by
the locomotive pulling passenger
| train No. IL, on the Omaha road,
due at this station at 5:25 p. m.
The accident occurred few yards
west of the A street bridge in the
Chicago, ST. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha railroad yards.
| The train stopped a few car
lengths from where the accident oc-
CURED, and the Injured man was
placed in the baggage car on a
stretcher improvised from a dray
skid Ticket Agent w. r. Spornitz
saw the train stop a few blocks
west of the depot, and also saw the
crowd of people gathering around
the side of the train. He immedi-
ately suspected that someone had
been hurt and had Dr. A. F. Schmitt
at the depot when the train pulled
| in with the injured man in the bag
gage car. Mr.. Jones was lifted upon
a truck and wheeled into the bag
gage room where DIR. Schmitt used
! first aid means vainly to revive him.
The doctor ascertained that none of
his arms or legs were broken and
then had the injured man removed
to St Joseph's hospital When Mr.
Jones was lifted off the stretcher
to be put in bed at the hospital, a
dark pool of clotted blood showed
where the snout of the engine pilot
jagged hole two or three inches in
diameter wss,s found in the mans
back on the right side Of the spine
and down about where the short ribs
commence. Several teeth were
knocked loose and his face was
scratched. Dr. Schmitt set to work
over the injured man and by seven
O'Clock it was thought that he ha(
a chance for his life. He passed a
RESTLESS night. and this morning he
was somewhat delirious.
| Man Rose Up; Sat Down Again.
When Engineer Jim Maloney of
Omaha passenger train No. II, due
here at 5:25 p. M, footed the whistle
of his locomotive sharply several
times in succession as his train was
pulling into Mankato yesterday, and
saw a man who was sitting on the
track rise and take step away
from the oncoming engine, he had
every reason to believe that the
man would be in the clear before
the train passed the place where he
had been sitting. The engineer was
forced to blow his whistle several
| times before the man on the track
| heard him, and was SO close to him
when the man finally rose that he
had to close his throttle and put on
the emergency brake to keep from
running over the man. AS soon as
the man rose, he released the brake
and turned in the steam again and
the train began to gain speed, but
before the brakes could be applied a
second time and the power shut off,
the man promptly threw up his
hands mad sat down again on the
rail- 1t was too late to keep the
pilot of the engine from hitting him,
L, of -
mogul lifted the body from the rail
and tossed it to one side. The train
was stopped within few car
lengths of where the man was hit,
SO it's speed was very slow, and the
| man was lifted only about three or
! four feet away from the track.
Engineer Maloney and Conductor
Frank Mcmillan hurried to the pros
trate form and with the help of a
number of citizens who were sum.
moned by the rapid footing OF the
whistle, the body was removed.
Subject to Sinking Spells.
Mr. Jones has not been working
since Sunday and has been com
planning of stomach trouble. Henry
Murtaugh, carpenter and mason con-
| tractor, by whom Mr.. Jones had
been employed at different times,
knows the injured man well, and
says that he is subject to spells
which seem to border on epilepsy.
He said that at times Mr.. Jones
would have sinking spells, and al
though he did not faint away he
seemed to lose his, strength for a
! few seconds. Mr.. Murtaugh says
that he talked to Mr.. Jones yester-
day afternoon not more than ten
| minutes before the accident oc'
Cured, and that at this time he was
a little puzzled at Mr.. Jones' speech
and was inclined to believe that he
was not entirely rational "He came
into South Front street saloon =
said this gentleman, ''and after
standing at the bar for moment
without drinking anything he walk
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