☛ An Accident Occured
The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser
March 23, 1854
An Accident Occured on Saturday Last to one of the Strokers on the
Engine Erie, belonging to the Great Western Railway Co. here. He had
been standing on the outside connecting rod,fixing a hook, when the
Engineer not knowing his position, put on the steam, the poor fellows
foot, got between the rods and was severly crushed over the ankle
joint. It was thought judicious to give him a chance to save his limb,
but that chance going against him, on Tuesday the limb was removed at
the middle of the leg, by Drs. Brown and Wanless, while he was kept
under the influence of Chloroform by Dr. Going. The man suffered no
pain during the operation, but instead sang a right merry song.– He
is now doing well. London Free Press
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