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AGED MAN til AY -DiEN ■■■— *Doty Street BwWfrit ”I» in Critical jCondition at Lakuiito Sanltnrlom lt;and1 CnnHc Mnii., SIM Bwt Fully 1P.*. IA. »«‘llrtlln • StAf t- #■ “• .**- * w -. ** ^ 1- -*» n O• Knocked Him OV*t, or It N«y BeiA^Dplfty-CottdKloft. » ,Ferdinand Dumkc* kli old clllten of the 3 cltv living nt 2027 Poty atreet, Is at the lt;Lakeside sanitarium juiTerlrtg^ -from ’either a” stroke of apbtftexy or a shock j which he received from a narrow escape » I he had from being run dou n b a sotjth- i i bound Chicago Northwestern passen- lt;] ger train near the Doty and Twenty-fifth -| street crossing about 9 o'clock this morning.According to a report from tttfc sanitarium at 3 o’clock this aftei*n‘oort. Mr? j Dunfke*s condition Is crStic-al and the * chances~for his recovery are militated : against toy liia a«l\enced age*Dr- M: E. Corbett, In attendance on’ Mr. Dumke, Is, Inclined - to believe that ; Mr* Dumke’A condition Is the restilt of an apoplectic stroke, for he found no signs of Injury ^on his body other than a slight' cut on the badk of hta head. 1 which might have been‘caused when he fell to the ground.When Mr. Dumke. who Is sftld to be seventy-four 5 ears of age. was taken to | the sanitarium In the city ambulance he was unconscious'amt he remained lnsen~ slbie for severaKhours. It wau^ftt first reported that he had been struck anlt;f killed by the train, but it developed that ; the train did not strike him at all. although It may have stiuck ajward which he was carrying and krioeked him down. „ , /It appears that Mr- Dumkc war picking up* pieces of board alohgsWeJhe track and was so near the rafls when'the* tral 1 passed that one of the projecting beards he was carrying In his arms or over hi a shoulder 'might have come In contact with the train and caused him to be thrown to the ground with such force as to render him unconscious No one saw Mr, Dumke when he fell and it Is therefore not positively known whether he met with an accident according to thistheory’ or was stricken with ftpoptexy* Just before or while the train passed. 1
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Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Oct 02, 1913
Page 6
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