The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-02-12
FIVE SERIOUS
ACCIDENTS IN
JUST TWODAYS
Two Children's Bones BrOk-
en-, Another Falls on Stove
Fourth Sprains Knee.
o. D. SNERLEY SIEZED
WITH A HEMORRHAGE
Cape Man Nearly Loses Life from
80 Hours of Nose
Bleeding.

tuesday ana wednesday OF this
week were remarkable for the number
of accidents of a serious character
that were recorded from various sec
tions of the city and county.
The reports began to come in at
about Z o'clock Tuesday morning, and
showed no signs of abatement until
) o'clock Wednesday afternoon, when
the epidemic of accidental injuries
found its way to Jackson, where the
spell was destroyed when a little boy
kicked at tin can and broke his leg.
The twO-year-old baby of Mr. and
Mrs. Verney Sterling, while standing
up in the high-chair in the kitchen at
their home on William street, yester-
morning, overbalanced and was
thrown forward against the cooking
stove.
The child was not seriously burned.
but received a number of bad cuts
about its head and face.
almost reaching the jugular vein was
A deep cash several inches long and
cut in its throat, and deep incision
was also made in the back of the neck
Just below the base of the skull.
The injuries are of a serious char
acter but the little sufferer rested
well during the day, and was appar-
emily getting along nicely.
Tuesday morning at about Z o'clock,
o. ID. Snerley of Morgan-Oak street,
was seized with a nasal hemorrhage,
and the flow of blood from his nose
was almost continuous for a period of
80 hours, it having been checked at
10 o'clock last night.
Mr.. Snerley was very weak from
his experience, and for a time it SEEM
ed as if all efforts for his relief would
be unavailing. Three physicians were
with him for hours, and by their COM
bined efforts finally succeeded in check
ing the discharge.
Ben Brinkopf, the five-year-old son
of Louis Brinkopf, of North Middle
street, had his arm broken by falling
out Of the barn loft Tuesday after
noon. The little fellow with some
neighbOr children were playing in the
hay when Ben in attempting to run
from one side of the loft to the other,
lost his footing and fell through hole
in the floor into the feed trough be-
low. He was carried to the house and
when the doctor arrived his examina-
ton revealed the fact that the right
arm was broken between the wrist and
the elbow.
Margaret Hood, the 11-year-old
daughter of w. w. Hood, a farmer
living on the Perrvyille road. short
distance from this city, while playing
with some children on the Broadway
school grounds yesterday morning,
sprained her knee and was so badly
crippled that it became necessary to
secure conveyance and take her to
her home in the country.
Margaret attends the Broadway
school, and at recess she was running
across the Fairgrounds with the other
children, when she made misstep and
fell heavily to the ground. When she
was assisted to her feet she was un-
able to stand, and complained of pain
in her knee.
She was taken to her home and a
physician was called. The knee swell
ed rapidly and the pain was intense,
but the physician was unable to dis
cover any broken bones and expressed
the belief that the child was suffering
from bad sprain.
Louis SwitZer, a Seven-year-old boy,
while playing in the yard at his home
in Jackson yesterday afternoon fell
and broke both bones in his left leg,
at a point about half way between the
ankle and knee.
The little fellow had just returned
from school with a number of play
mates who had accompanied him
home for the purpose of playing with
him for a little while before going to
their own homes.
They had formed sides and had lin
ed UP against each other in a kicking
game of some sort in which a tin can
was used as a substitute for a foot
ball.
In crowding and showing each other