Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1912 — CUT OFF FOOT BY WIRELESS [ARTICLE]

CUT OFF FOOT BY WIRELESS

Gulf Operator Told How to Perform Operation by Doctor on Ship 420 Mlles Away. New Orleans, La. —How a laborer on Swan island, a lonely wireless station In the gulf, sustained a Crushed foot; how the wireless operator on the Island communicated with a ship 420 miles away, raised the surgeon and got him to explain the proper way to ..amputate, and how thb operator’s assistant performed the operation, Is a story told by the manager of a big shipping flrm’. New Orleans physicians describe it as by wireless.” ' On Swan'lsland Is a wireless station, one of the links In the United Fruit chain to the When a laborer hurt his foot In. a tram car accident the wireless operator * concluded an operation was Imperative. There were no medical books at hand, qnd no one at the station ever had hacked at a fellow being. Then the operator had an "Inspiration.” He called a fellow craftsman on a ship passing 420 miles below into the Caribbean sea. The situation was explained to the ship's surgeon, and detail by detail he explained just how the amputation should be handled. —After the arteries had been tied and the wound dressed the patient recovered Ms senses and insisted on pressing at the wireless key to express his thanks. At last accounts he Wag getting well.