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1916
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'AGED MAN MAY DIE
; FROM ffe INJURIES
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Bad Crossing Accident in Gibson-
|n: burg Thursday forenoon—Two
|o Hurt. _ ■' % ' * fl- *! - /^ t.is,
Special to the News. t
Gibsonburg, Nov. 2.—John Dam-
^cli^&^r^jji^prominent Elmore resi-
Uent, a^as probably fatally injured
« and his son Arthur, 34, was serious- I
Ty injured, shortly before noon
u Thursday when their Briscoe auto
A.wa.8 struck by a Pennsylvania Ry. |
engine at the Madison street cross- j
ing here. The senior Damschrader's \\
right leg was cut off and he was in-'!
*jured internally. The younger man j
■ suffered bad cuts and bruises. The j
• latter was driving the machine. They
had halted for a switching train and
When this pulled over the crossing
athey failed to see the engine on the
imain track which was enroute to the
>water tank. The engine hit their
j auto squarely and wrecked it. When
I the- accident took plase there was
not a doctor in Gibsonburg, all be¬
ing in the country on calls. The two!
injured men were taken, to the Er- I
vin drug store and given first aid
after which the father was placed^
"aboard a special train on the Penn-,
sjrlvania and hurried to a Toledo hos¬
pital. The son was taken to El-j
more, by an Elmore physician who
fe^W-oned, X \
