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FALL CftUSED A BROKEN LEGGEORGE HIRSCHAUER IS LAID UP AT HOSPITAL.SLIPPED ON ICY RAILSHe Cou(d Not Be Taken Horre Because His Aged Father is Seriously IiI—Shock Would Be Too Much for Him.From TLur»tlay'n Dally.George E. Hirschauer, Jr.. Panhandle airbrake inspector, sustained a fractured leg this morning at 10 o’clock, when be slipped on the icy rails in the yards at Fourteenth street, and fell. Hirschauer was hastening across the tracks when the accident happened, and his left knee struck the rail in such a manner that his leg was fractured. Several yardmen saw him fall, and when he did not get up they ran to his side. Hirschauer was carried to the yard ; office and a call was sent for Killian Mcdoskey’s ambulance. He was rirst removed to the office of Dr J. B. Shultz, where the fractured leg was set, ar.d then taken to the St. Joseph hospital.Hirschauer resides with his parents ’ at 221 West Broadway. His father, George E. Hirschauer, Sr., is seriously i ill at homp and is not expected to live. It was thougnt that if his son was taken home injured the shoe would be too much for the aged man an dmight prove fatal. The fracture of Hirschauer leg was not a very serious one, as it was below the knee, but h; will bo cohfmed at the hospital for several weeks.
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Logansport Semi Weekly Reporter

Logansport, Indiana, US

Fri, Jan 06, 1911

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