Aged Man May Die From His Injuries

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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 \