Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1913 — Escaped With Slight Injury. [ARTICLE]

Escaped With Slight Injury.

Samuel Wright, a brakeman on the West'Shore railroad, is in the Northern Hudson (N. J.) hospital, with four toes gone from his right foot. Wright was standing in a gondola coal- car, the first in a 16-car train, that was passing through Bogota, when the car bottom became loose. He tried to climb out, but did not have time. The bottom fell and he was thrown tfi the- ties. He lay stretched between the rails, while the long succession of wheels passed on either side of him. “It surely was a queer feeling I had watching them go. by,” said Wright. “Some of the air pipes and rods grazed my head and shoulders.” After the train had passed Wright was picked up by several railroad men, put aboard a special engine and rushed to Weehawken. The house surgeon found it -necessary to amputate four toes, the only part ‘of him that the wheels had touched.