Stull - JW
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 25 September 1896
J. W. Stull, aged 36 years, a farm hand living near Linden, met with an accident at the Market Street crossing of the Monon Saturday evening which will render him a cripple for life. About 8 o’clock a north bound freight passed through and Stull endeavored to board it to ride home. He missed his catch however, and fell to the ground, one foot falling across the rail and being immediately crushed by the wheel of the car he had attempted to board. Stull scrambled out not at first realizing what he had suffered. He staggered to his feet and at once sank to the ground again exclaiming, “Oh, Lord! My foot is cut off!”
He lay for a moment and then deliberately started to crawl under the wheels of the passing train but was prevented by Bob Hartman and a boy named Patterson, who were standing near and witnessed the accident. A wagon was called and Stull was removed to the hospital department of the jail where Dr. Ensminger amputated the foot. Stull was very game and stood the operation without a whimper. -s
A pathetic scene occurred at the jail yesterday when Stull’s wife and five small children arrived to visit him. The family is not in good circumstances by any means and being now, at the beginning of winter, deprived of their only support, are to be pitied.