A Cedar Tree Accident at Eighterle Prairie
A man suffers a broken leg while clearing timber near Spokane.
Thursday morning, a man by the name of Alex. Campbell had his leg broken at Eighterle prairie, about six miles east of this city. He was cutting down a cedar tree when the tree swung out of its course, striking his right leg and breaking it in two places below the knee. The unfortunate man was brought to this city and taken to the Sprague House, where Dr. A. S. Campbell was called in to treat the case. That expert surgeon set the limb in good shape and made the patient as comfortable as possible. That evening, Campbell was taken to Sprague, where his family resides, and will be around as sound as ever in a few weeks.
“He was cutting down a cedar tree when the tree swung out of its course, striking his right leg, breaking it in two places below the knee.”
Industrial accidents were a common and dangerous reality of life in the developing Pacific Northwest. This report captures the immediate, localized response to such injuries before the advent of modern emergency medical services.
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