Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1919 — Doctors Amputated Legs as Man Dangled in Shaft [ARTICLE]

Doctors Amputated Legs as Man Dangled in Shaft

Doctors amputated both legs of Henry Shlers, of London, England, while he hung head downward, both legs caught between an elevator cage and the flooring. * *.- It was impossible to move the man and a staging was built out into the shaft from the floor and a platform erected. On this the surgeons stood and while one gave an anaesthetic the other cut off the legs. The victim was removed to a hospital, but died.