Railroad injuries · Whiting

Baggagemaster thrown from a moving train

Contemporary source summarized

A sudden start at Whiting jolted a 57-year-old baggagemaster through an open car door, leaving his left arm and leg partly paralyzed.

The accident

The injured man’s partly illegible surname appears to be Robbins; his address was printed as 714 Raymond Avenue, with the municipality unreadable. He landed on his head beside the tracks and lost consciousness. Railroad workers put him aboard the train, which carried him to Camden and Cooper Hospital’s surgical ward. Physicians feared a spinal injury because paralysis affected his left arm and leg.

The clipping also reports unrelated Cooper Hospital cases involving Tony—surname unclear—age 31, of 424 Cherry Street, who fractured his right ankle at the Farr & Bailey plant, and T. V. Lamb, 65, of 2042 Broadway, who was injured falling from a trolley at Broadway and Jackson Street.

Source note

The surviving newspaper crop does not show a reliable masthead, complete issue date, or page number. Names and damaged words are identified as uncertain in the text; researchers should verify them against a full newspaper image before citation.