Logging Danger on Mercer Island

John McCloud, a young man about 25 years of age, employed as a sawyer in J. L. Taylor's logging camp on Mercer Island, was taken to Providence Hospital last evening suffering from a serious wound in the face inflicted by a falling limb. McCloud was engaged in sawing a tree about noon yesterday when a limb, about three feet long and four inches in diameter, which had been broken from the main trunk, fell and struck him on the nose, breaking the bridge, cutting the flesh of both cheeks and throwing him to the ground in an insensible condition. The efforts of the men about the camp to revive him were unsuccessful for three hours, and during that time on several occasions he was thought to be dying. As there was no physician in the vicinity, Mr. Taylor and his crew took the tug Abe Perkins, with which they were towing logs, crossed Lake Washington and came to the city for surgical assistance. They were unsuccessful in getting a physician to go to the camp, so Mr. Taylor returned alone and brought McCloud to Providence Hospital, where Dr. Rufus H. Smith extracted five pieces of bone from the smashed nose and dressed the bruised flesh. McCloud will be slightly disfigured and find some difficulty in breathing through his nose.