14 - Governor Dockery today appointed Robert A. Carrie Revelle, who had a foot cut off by an Iron Mountain excursion train as she was leaving the train at Fredericktown late one night last summer, a year ago, was awarded $5,000 damages by the circuit court at Fredericktown recently.

That evening while returning north on the local he got his arm between two drawheads in coupling cars and had all the flesh torn off of the bone of his arm an did not break it. Going down Cornwall Grade at the rate of 35 miles an hour Monday and strange to say, he was by the motion of the train thrown out to one side of the road and not hurt. Bismark GazetteДЇredericktown Standard: вЂњJohn Fitzgerald, a brakeman on the branch, fell from the top of a box car between two while the train was Gale to place DeGuire in his car and he was brought to town to the home of his brother, Frank. About the same time another automobile, going in the opposite direction arrived there and the occupants assisted Mr. DeGuire laid there about ten minutes when Vernon Gale came along on his way home from Farmington. The machine landed on top of the calf, but he was able to crawl to where it was and release it and it scampered away through the woods. DeGuire stated he was going about twenty miles an hour and the calf was on the side of the road and when he go directly opposite of it, it stated to cross the road and ran into the motorcycle. Happened last Friday evening about fifty yards from the junction of the Farmington and Iron Mountain Road while he was coming to Bismarck to attend the funeral of Mrs. Paul DeGuire of Fredericktown sustained three fractures, two of the left leg, one being at the ankle and one above the ankle,ДЄnd the third fracture being on the left foot, by a calf running into his motorcycle and ditching it. It was said someone pushed him from the window. He was sent to the hospital in a hopeless condition.

He was taken to the Dispensary, where it was found his spine was broken. It did, but things didn't turn out so seriously - he lost only a thumb and two fingers.ДЇrightful Fall that Will Undoubtedly Cause DeathД®dward Bockner of Fredericktown, Missouri, an engineer, 24 years old, fell from a second story window of Hotel Huat, at 8 o'clock this morning, and was fatally hurt. Small Boy Puts Revolver Cartridge on Hot StoveДЇred Brown, a Fredericktown small boy, placed a revolver cartridge on a hot stove to see if it would explode. News and Tidbits - Madison County, Missouri

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