Mr. Lee Malone looses a Foot

It is painful for us to have to mention the terrible accident in which young Lee Malone lost a foot on Thursday of last week by the same being crushed by a locomotive.

Since January he had been employed as a section hand on the road between Dame´s Ferry and Pope´s Station, and on the day of the accident was sent by the section boss, Capt. Osborne, to flag down a southbound freight at about 3 o´clock in the afternoon.  The train was in two sections and after the first section had passed down he sat down on a small trestle to watch for the second one when suddenly the northbound passenger came upon him from the read.  He says that the road there is very smooth and the train made but little noise, and he being sitting with his face looking northward for a southbound train, he did not hear it till it was within a few feet from him when he made an effort to get off the tract but could not do so before the engine struck him.   He says the pilot struck him first and broke his thigh and threw his left foot under the wheels and it was crushed off just above the ankle.

He was immediately brought to Jackson and placed under the care of Dr. R. G. Bryans, who, with Dr. Butner, amputated his left leg about midway between the knee and ankle joints and “set’ the thigh, which was a simple fracture.  Up to this time he is doing remarkable well, with a good prospect to recover.

It is a terrible blow for a young man and he has the sympathies of all our people.   

The above is the simple statement to us by young Malone himself and we do not doubt but that it is substantially correct.

Middle Ga Argus  Week of July 26,1887

Submitted by Don Bankston