Remarkable Experience of a Drunken Man

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 88, 12 January 1888, Page 3

Remarkable Experience of a Drunken Man

MbiJboubne, January 3. '■• '-. John Taylor, ,a young man, got very drunk ph a recent Saturday at Woollongdigi New South Wales, and in endeavoring to &no\ his ..way home feli;down oh the railway line, about half a'mife from Bullu When he -fell, he had not strength enough to rise, nor sense- enough to know the danger he was in. He fell asleep with his left arm. across the ouloide rail of the line, and a passing train sometime afterwards criiahed the limb completely off, Taylor was so drunk that he diicl not feel any pain, although his arm had been taken, off near- the shoulder. He lay in this drunken stupor all night, and did not lose much blood, because the veins were closed, the arm being so terribly crushed. On Sunday t morning even, the effects of the liquor had not left him, and he was seen walking about near where he had slept. He felt a pain, as he thought, in his shoulder, and looking down dis ' covered his loss. Search was made for the missing limb, which was lying between the rails. The senior constable conveyed the injured man to the hospital where he is now progressing favorably.