Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1914 — GIFFORD BRAKEMAN HAD FOYT CRUSHED [ARTICLE]

GIFFORD BRAKEMAN HAD FOYT CRUSHED

Francis Harrington Tried to Kick Coupler Into Place and Left Foot Was Badly Mangled. Francis Harrington, a brakeman on the Gifford branch of the Monon railroad, had his left foot badly mangled Thursday at Newland. The train was shifting the position of the rock cars and just as a coupling was about to be made Harrington saw that one of the coupling bars was out of position arid he tried to kick it in with his foot. The cars came together at just that moment and caught the foot and he fell between the cars. Tom Callahan was fortunately standing right at his side and he pulled Harrington from beneath the cars or he would probably have been killed. He was brought to Rensselaer and then taken on the evening train to Lafayette, where his injury was dressed. It was decided to try to save the foot, but it is possible that it will yet have to be amputated.