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A Woodman's Suffering.
CINCINNATI, December 26 [1878] - Near Crown Point, indiana, on Tuesday, Henry Holmes went to get a load of wood. His horses became entangled in the underbrush, and in his efforts to release them he became thoroughly exhausted. Overcome with cold, he lay down in the snow, where he was found some time afterward insensible. His legs were frozen. He was taken home and cared for, but no hopes are entertained of his recovery. [27 Dec 1878, Trenton State Gazette (NJ) - submitted by K. Torp]

Hammond, Ind., June 11.— J. L. Miller, aged thirty-five years, of Garret, a brakeman on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, is in the South Chicago Hospital, after escaping death at Indiana Harbor in three different ways. While his train was crossing the Baltimore & Ohio bridge the Indiana Harbor canal, Miller climbed to the top of a freight car. He was struck by the bridge, his right arm was broken twice, his face torn and he was knocked off the car to the rails below. He fell in such a way under the moving train as to escape the wheels. The last brake beam on the caboose caught him and threw him off the 20 feet below into the Calumet river. Bruised and bleeding and with one arm he swam ashore and crawled on the bank, where he was found unconcious by the watchman. Miller will recover. [11 June 1909; Paper: San Jose Mercury News - Submitted by K. Torp]

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