HARRY STILES INJURED WHILE COASTING ON WEST FIFTH STREET

STILES, CURTIS

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Date: 5/5/2015 at 14:54:59

SPINE IS INJURED
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HARRY STILES INJURED WHILE
COASTING ON WEST FIFTH STREET
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While coasting with a crowd of companions on West Fifth Street at 10 o’clock Friday evening, Harry Stiles, aged 25 years, an employee of the shoe department at Stampfers, was thrown off a sled and seriously injured. A crowd of young men were own a big bobsled and were coming down the street at a rapid rate of speed. As the sled passed over a bump on the street, Stiles who was seated on the rear, was thrown off with considerable force. He was picked up and carried to the residence of Harry Curtis, where a physician attended him. The young man was rendered unconscious by the accident, but was able to go to his home, Main and Seventeenth Streets at midnight. His spine is injured, but the physician thinks the injury will not be permanent. This was the first coasting accident of the year.

Dubuque Telegraph Herald December 14, 1902