The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1914-12-25
SHORTEST DAY
slips IN and
CITIZENS SKID
Many Fall on Ice and Three
Persons Are Seriously
Hurt.
ONE MAN GOES DOWN
STEEP EMBANKMENT
Lee Lyon is Taken to Hospital
Observation-Disclosures and
Policeman Hurt.

Yesterday was the shortest day of
the year and incidentally the first day
of winter, according to the almanac.
1t slipped in and out in about nine and
a half hours, and a number of citizens
slipped on the ice before the day was
done.
The sun came up at 7:15 and went
down at 4:42. This city was coated
with ice to greet the rising sun, and
there was enough ice to skid on wher
the shortest day of the year passed
into history.
The days will now begin to get
longer at the rate Of about two min
utes per day. This will be continued
until June 21, the longest day in the
year.
A score of people fell on the ice yes
terday and at least three were iniur-
ed. Patrolman Arthur Whitener, while
ahghting from a street car on West
Good Hope, fell and severely wrench
ed his left shoulder.
He placed his hands in his pockets
just as he stepped to the ground, and
an instant later, he slipped and fell
to the ground with a thump. The
weight of his body fell upon his left
arm, straining the elbow and shoulder.
He bandaged his injuries, bat was able
to continue on his beat throughout the
night.
William H. Bohnsack, ST., slipped
and fell in the court house yard, split
ting his left ear badly. He was jus,
ascending the second tier of steps
when he stepped upon a layer of ice
and fell upon the granitoid. The car
Iidge of the ear was severed, the gasl
extending almost two inches. Severa
stitches we're taken ii the injured
member and large bump on the req
of his head was treated by a physi-
clan.
Lee Lyon, a former resident of thr
Cape, is at the hospital suffering from
injuries which he received when h"
slipped and fell down the steep en-
bankment at William and Lorimie7'
streets. He was walking west on Will
liam street when he slipped on the ice
and before he could find his equilibri-
UNI, he skidded over the edge of the
walk and down the steep precipice.
The momentum carried him down
the eTnbankment at a terrific pace and
when he reached the bottom he struck
an obstruction which rendered him un-
conscious. A pedestrian, who witness
ed the accident, summoned DR.. John
st. Avit and DR.. J. D. Porterfield, Jr.:
who took the injured man to the po-
lice station, but owing to the fact That
there were not accommodations Their
for offering him treatment, Mayor
Rage ordered him sent to the St.
Francis hospital.
When DR.. st. Avit reached the in
jured man, he was still unconscious.
but he partially identified him as Lee
Lyon. When Lyon was boy he was
badly burned on his hip by lime, an
in order to make the Identification pos
tive, DR.. st. Avit asked that he be
disrobed and examined. This was
done and the scars made by the lime
were plainly in evidence.
A short time later, Lyon regained
consciousness and confirmed the phys
ician's Identification. He said the &C
cident occurred so suddenly that he
could not describe how it happened.
He said he was walking west on ";
liam street when he fell. What hap
pened after that he was unable to
plain. 1t is presumed that in faliir
his head struck the paved walk, rem
dering him unconscious. While he bore
no serious injury that could be detec1
cd by the physicians last night, he viii
be kept at the hospital until today ant
maybe longer.
:, Lyon reached the city on a Wis
only two days ago. He moved his
residence from the Cape several years
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