Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1891 — Heart on the Right Side. [ARTICLE]

Heart on the Right Side.

At Detroit a man applied at the Central Station for lodging. He is George Burns, and he is, perhaps, without a parallel in the world. He is 60 years of age, and during the rebellion served as engineer on board the man-of-war Essex. He was capture/ 1 and held prisoner at Libby Prison. After the war he became engineer on the steamship Savannah, and when that boat went upon the rocks at Gay Head in 1884 he stuck to his post and reversing the engine as she struck. He was thrown among the machinery and horribly injured. In the top of his skull he wears a six-ounce silver plate, three ribs on his left side are gone, his right knee cap has been removed and also a large portion of the right hip bone and other smaller bones of his right leg. In his right wrist there is no pulse and the right elbow has no joint. But the strangest of his complex injuries is his heart, which has been forced over to the right side of the body, where it? can plainly be felt beating. A Li a a is a man who knows all the facte about something that never occurred.