The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-06-11
TRAIN HITSPAlR
AS They LEAVE
BOAT ON RIVER
Work Engine Strikes A. B.
Dunfee and Wife, Serious
ly Injuring Them.
WOMAN UNCONSCIOUS
FOR HOLT AN HOUR
Visiting Merchants Nose is Frae-
tured and He is Internally
Hurt-Taken to Hotel.

Mr.. and Mrs. A B. Dunfee of Glide
on, Mo-, while walking ashore from
the steamer Cape Girardeau, anchored
at the wharf last evening at about Q
O'Clock, were struck by a passing
work train, and both received serious
injuries.
Mrs. Dunfee struck the back of her
head when she fell on the rocky river
front, and was unconscious for thirty
minutes. Mr.. Dunfee was thrown for
ward on his face and sustained brok-
en- nose and a badly sprained wrist, be-
sides numerous cuts and bruises.
Both were taken to the St. Charles
Hotel, where DR.. VI. ROsenthal was
summoned and treated their injuries.
The physician stated that Mrs. Dun
fees injuries were serious. Her arm
had been badly bruised and wrenched
and at first it was thought that it was
broken, but close examination re-
moved that fear. Her injuries caused
her much suffering through the night
and it is feared that she was perhaps
hurt internally.
Some of the bones We're broken in
Mr. Dunfee's nose, and he was in
ternally hurt.
Mr.. Dunfee, who is employed as 4
manager for the Anderson Mercantile
Co., of Gideon, when interviewed by
a Tribune reporter after the accident,
said:
81 had some business demanding at
tentior in the Cape, and Mrs. Dunfee
and l came up yesterday thinking that
would be able to finish in time to
return in the afternoon. We were de
layed on account of the highwater, and
| found that did not have sufficient
time in which to attend to my bust
ness and catch the return train for
home in the afternoon, SO we conclud-
ed to stay over and go on the Eagles
excursion, and leave early Sunday
morning for Gideon.
eve walked down to the river front
and went aboard the boat early in the
evening, where We intended to remain
until the excursion was finished. When
it began to rain the management con-
cludcd to postpone the trip, and later
we concluded to walk back to the no
tel.
eve walked down the gang plank
and had just stepped off onto a mar
row board that extended from the
gang plank to the middle of the rail
road track. Suddenly | saw train
and l seized my wife by
the arm, hoping to be able to get back
in the gangway before the engine
struck the board upon which we were
walking.
81 was too late, however, and the
next thing I knew l had been hurled
several feet in the air, and when i
struck the stone pavement l was
sprawled face downward with my left
wrist bent in a cramped position I'M
der my body.
"When l got to my feet l saw my
wife in an apparently lifeless condi-
ton lying several feet from where |
fell.
"Men hurried to her assistance and
she was carried to the st. Charles Ho-
tel where she regained consciousness
soon after the arrival of the doctor.
81 cannot understand why the train
lid not stop, as the headlight showed
he position of the plank plainly, and
he mate of the boat signalled fran
.ically with his lantern in his en-
Ieavors to attract the attention Of the
,ngineman."
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