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Six Hours In The Snow

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
December
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

For six hours Tuesday night Thomas Burke, a youug Northfield farmer, lay in the snow alongside the Ann Arbor road with a broken leg. He had taken the 4:46 train in this city and stepped out on the rear platform. The platform was slippery and he fell off the train. He lay where he fell in Hagan's cut about three miles north of the city, being unable to move on account of a badly broken leg and other injuries, until after 11 o'clock, when he was discovered by the yard engineer of the Ann Arbor road who was, with his engine, helping a heavily loaded freight train over the up-grade. The switch engine brought him to this city and Georg R. Haviland with Martin's ambulance took him to the university hospital, where he is being treated. His leg was badly fractured just below the knee. Mr. Burke is the son of the late Anthony Burke. His experience in the long six hours he lay in the snow was a particularly hard one. His absence on the passenger train was not noticed.