Saturday, August 2, 2008

Daily Crisis 1901 - Bascom Sanford Injury

Daily Crisis
Aug. 1, 1901
PARENTS WILL SUE
Claim That Bascom Sanford Did Not Have Attention.
SAY THAT HE BLED TO DEATH
After Being Injured by the Cars at Salineville -- Alleged That He Received No Medical Attention There.
Bascom Sanford, who was run over by a freight car at Salineville on Fiday night and died at the Mercy hospital, Pittsburg, on Saturday night, is said to have bled to death and did not have proper medical attention until he reached Pittsburg.. It is claimed that he received no medical attention whatever at Salineville, but was kept there nearly , two hours, then taken to Wellsville and waited for a train for Pittsburg. Sanford's parents, who live at Penrith, W. Va., will bring suit against the railroad company for $15,000 for damages for alleged neglect to give proper care, to the young man.

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