NEWS: Accident Report, Altoona Tribune, September 10, 1918, Blair County, PA

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TWO BRAKEMEN HURT WHEN HIT BY CLUBS
Howard Carr's Elbow Injured and A. C. Sandrus Has Rib Partly Fractured

  Two Pennsy brakemen suffered injuries when their brake-clubs slipped and 
struck them and resulted in their treatment at Altoona hospital dispensary 
yesterday.
  Howard W. Carr, aged 29, of 1014 Lexington avenue, a yard brakeman, 
received a laceration one inch in length at 6:10 last evening when his club 
slipped as he was endeavoring to stop a car.
  Arthur C. Sandrus, aged 35, 1706 Seventh avenue, Juniata, had an incomplete 
fracture of a rib on his left side reduced.  He was injured while working on 
the Middle division on September 4, but the injury failed to give him much 
trouble until yesterday.  His side was strapped.
  William Wendt, aged 32, of 907 Seventeenth street, suffered a lacerated 
right eye when a spall from a hammer hit him at the Pennsy shop.  Nash G. 
Gates, aged 39, of 1111 Third street.  Juniata, a Pennsy fireman, had a 
foreign body removed from his left eye.  A cinder flew into the optic as his 
engine was nearing Harrisburg on Sunday evening.  Both men were given 
attention at the hospital dispensary.

Altoona Tribune, Tuesday, September 10, 1918, page 12