At Delhi on Thursday, the
21st inst., a serious accident occurred to John Gilbert, a young man
working on a pile driver used in erecting a new iron bridge there on
the Air Line of the Great Western Railway.
By some means he slipped and
the hammer of the pile driver caught his arm on the top of the
shoulder joint, and crushing the rest of the arm down to the hand to
a jelly.
Dr. Moore, surgeon of the
road, assisted by Drs. Wood and Farewell dressed the arm, and at
last accounts he was doing very well, but little hope is entertained
for his recovery.
Much sympathy is expressed
for the family, as he was the sole support of a widowed mother and
several small children.
