Foot Cut Off By The Cars

FOOT CUT OFF BY THE CARS

Bad Accident Happened at Chelsea Wednesday

UNLOADING SCHOONERS

Was the Cause of Patrick O'Brien Being Mangled Up Badly

Chelsea, Mich., Jan. 18. - Yesterday forenoon between 10 and 11 o'clock Patrick O'Brien,. of New York city, and who is with the extra gang employed by the M. C. R. R. Co., who have been cutting ice near Ypsilanti, met with an accident opposite the passenger house here that lost him his right foot and otherwise bruised him up. The men came here with the road train Tuesday evening and O'Brien with some other parties repaired to one of the thirst parlors and began unloading schooners in the evening and at the opening hour yesterday morning he and his companions made a fresh start at the same old task and continued so doing until it was time for the way freight going east when they went to the station for the purpose of going to Ypsilanti to draw the money for the time they had put in cutting ice, but instead of going to the way car the men waited until the train was under way and then attempted to board it and in so doing O'Brien missed his hold and fell in such a manner that  the cars run over his right foot and ankle badly mangling it and the left foot and his face was somewhat bruised, but not seriously.

As soon as possibly after the accident the man was taken to the office of Dr. G. W. Palmer who, with Dr. H. W. Schmidt, amputated the injurrd foot and ankle and dressed the other wounds, so as to make the man as comfortable as possible. O'Brien has no relatives in this part of the country but claims to have a brother on the police force in New York City who will be notified of his condition.

Tuesday Geo. Mergle, who lives south of this village, was engaged in drawing manure from his barns to the fields when his horses became frightened and ran away, throwing Mr. Mergle to the ground and breaking his left leg.

The Ladies' Aid society of the M. E. church will serve a calendar tea in the church dining rooms Friday evening, Jan. 31.

At the annual meeting of the N. W. F. M. F. Ins. Co., held here yesterday afternoon, the following officers were elected: President, John Clark, of Lyndon; secretary and treasurer, Geo. T. English, of Sylvan; directors, N. W. Laird, of Sylvan, and W. B. Collins, of Lyndon.