Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1897 — A Marvelous Accident. [ARTICLE]

A Marvelous Accident.

Henry Sutton, of Warren County, Pa., was the victim of perimps the most marvelous accident ever known. On tlie 10th day of August lie was nt work at the bottom of an oil well derrick, when n three-quarter Inch iron bar 21 feet long, cut off square at the end, fell from the top of the derrick, 74 feet, striking him on the ueck, passing through the body and coming out below the left nipple, entering the body at tlie thigh and coming out three and threequarter inches above the knee, passing on down, severing the little toe from the left foot and sinking 18 inches into the ground. Over 0 feet of this rough Iron rod passed through the body, and after becoming unconscious some fellowworkmen discovered what had happened, and laid the poor sufferer down and extracted the iron bar by pulling it out. No one thought that lie would live an hour, but he recovered.