Railroad Worker, Brakeman Loses Legs in Accident

Mankato, Minnesota, 1913--

HOKAH BRAKEMAN LOSES HIS LEGS

Silas Green, age 25, a brakeman on the Northwestern railroad, may recover from an accident which happened Monday at Eagle Lake, near Mankato, Minn., when both of his legs were amputated by a freight train. Green is a resident of Hokah.

Green was braking on a freight train. As the train neared Eagle Lake it pulled into a side track to allow another freight, bound in the opposite direction to pass. According to the crew of the passing freight train, Green swung off the rear end of the train into the path of the onrushing freight. One of the legs was cut off at the knee and the other near the hip.

His crew took Green to a hospital as quickly as possible where physicians said that there was a fair chance of saving his life. Green is known here among railroad men.

--The La Crosse Tribune, La Crosse, Wisconsin, October 8, 1913, page 4.