News: Lizzie Broadway, Mrs. Josephine Coufal Injured, 1901

BROADWAY, COUFAL

Posted By: Stephen D. Williams (email)
Date: 12/29/2005 at 18:18:32

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Daily Iowa State Press
Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa
Monday, 15 July 1901
page 4 of 4, column 4

May be Amputation.
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Mrs. Lizzie Broadway Seriously
Hurt--Mrs. Coufal's Injuries
Duplicated.
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Mrs. Lizzie Broadway, formerly cook at the University hospital, may be compelled to lose her foot by amputation.
This will be the result, probably, of a leap from a buggy on college hill, near W. F. Main's about midnight Saturday.
Mrs. Broadway might have averted her misfortune had she been able to read the future. She saw the horse grow restive, when he beheld the dirt piles on College hill, and she became frightened. Then, despite the expostulations of the driver--she leaped--to her subsequent sorrow. The horse duly quieted down and there was no runaway.
The disastrous jump caused the fracture of both bones of her lower left leg, involving the ankle, which was badly dislocated.
She was taken to the University hospital, and received the best of care, but the injuries are very bad.
The hospital staff is deeply interested in the coincidental features of two cases now being treated in that institution.
Mrs. Josephine Coufal, of Amana has injuries exactly like Mrs. Broadway, except that it was the right-leg, not the left that sustained the dual break and the dislocation of the ankle. She was hurt in a fall down cellar [sic].
There has not been a fall just of that kind in the hospital before, and many physicians have never seen one of that particular type.