The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-01-14
Donald Black, Is, Suffers
Conclusion of Brain
In Sled Collision.
PHILOMENA KUSS is
INJURED INTERNALLY
Sam Duckworth, Is, Is Thrown
From Sled, Run Over and
His Leg Broken

IHtSe boys were injured, TWO o.
them seriously, in two coasting acct.
IDENTIFY on the Normal hill on North
Pacific street last night, and one girI
was dangerously injured yesterday
afternoon when she fell upon the ice
1T her home in the country west OF
the Cape.
The coasting accidents occurred
within a half hour of each other and
according to witnesses, the lack of q
street light at the foot of the hill was
the cause of the collisions. The hill
was crowded with young people coast
ing and both accidents occurred at the
bottom of the steep incline.
The injured are:
Donald Black, - years old, son of
City Councilman Walter D. Black, of
426 North street, conclusion Of the
brain and bruises on the body. Sc
rious.
Sam DuckwOrth, -, son of Prof.
and Mrs. A. S. Duckworth of 9l5 Col
lcgc Hill, left leg broken in two places
between knee and ankle, serious.
Dewey Day, - of 36 North Ellis
street, student at the Business Col
lege, severe bruises and cOntusiOns on
both legs and knees. Not serious.
Miss Philomena kuss, IT. daughter
of Mr. ard Mrs. Henry w. Kuss, who
reside on the Bloomfield road west
of town, bruises on the body and in
ternal injuries, suffered in fall.
The first coasting accident that &C.
Cured was the one in which the
Duckworth lad was injured. 1t &C.
Cured at about 7:30 o'clock.
Young Duckworth was a member of
4 coasting party which used a large
bob-sled. The slide started at the
east side Of the Normal School cam
pus adjacent to the location of the
tennis courts and ran southwark on
Pacific street. The hill at his place
is very steep and the momentum Of
the sleds carried the coasters far up
the next hill toward North street.
The sled on which Duckworth rode,
as it left the top of the hill, was
packed. Duckworth clung TO the rear
end. As it gained speed and APP
preached the bottom of the incline,
the rear end of bob-sled swung from
side to side. Duckworth lost his hold
and was pushed from the rear end
into the snow.
He was not given time in which to
roll out of the path of the slide, be-
fore another sled, laden with coasters
was upon him. The second sled ran
over his left leg, fracturing both
bones in two places between the
knee and ankle.
The sled passed on, the coasters
thereon being unable to stop at that
place. Duckworth was picked up by
other coasters and carried to his home
nearby where physician was sum-
mOned and after an examination his
condition was pronounced serious.
He also suffered numerous bruises
about the body from the fall from
the sled and being run over by the
following sled.
A half hour later, Donald Black
failed to see Dewey Day on the slide
and drove his sled into him. Day
was drawing large sled toward the
top of the slide when he was hit.
Young Black was lying face down.
ward on his sled and after the sled
had knocked Day down, it crashed
into the coaster that Day was pulling
behind him.
A corner of the Day sled struck
Black on the right eye, the force of
the blow causing conclusion of the
brain and knocking Black unconsci-
Gus. The Black boy rolled over to the
side of the street and friends on the
slide did not see him for several mo-
mentS.
They picked Day up before they
saw the Black boy lying near the
curbing. They Immediately picked
up the Black boy and carried him in
to the residence of c. A. Norvell at
432 North Pacific street, where a doc
tor was summoned. Efforts were
made to revive him.
He was unconscious for more than
an hour and it was only after he had
been taken to his home that he was
revived. In addition to the brain
conclusion and injured eye, the Black
boy had bruise on the left knee and
other slight bruises about the body.
The physician who examined him
last night, said no bones had been
briken and no evidence of q fractured
skull was found. Day went to his