Philadelphia The Times, January 3, 1898View transcription
FELL AND LAY SENSELESS
Watchman Smith Tumbled Into an Areaway at Night and Was Not Found Until Morning.
Andrew J. Smith, night watchman at the new power plant of the Camden Lighting and Heating Company, in course of construction on Cooper's Creek, at Seventeenth street, fell from a doorway, a distance of twelve feet to the ground, between 6 and 7 o'clock Saturday evening, and lay in a helpless condition, exposed to the elements, until 7 o'clock yesterday morning. How he came to fall Watchman Smith is unable to tell, but the indicator in the office of the station shows that he had not pushed any of the buttric buttons during the night and the fire in the boiler was burned out when Day Watchman George Wheeler arrived at the station at 6 o'clock yesterday morning. When Wheeler entered the gate to the yard that surrounds the station he heard a groan, and at once got a lantern and made a search for the night watchman.
He found him senseless in an areaway below the doorway from which he had fallen. There were deep gashes in his forehead and lips where his face struck some sharp stones and his face was covered with clotted blood. Wheeler was unable to carry the injured man indoors, but ran six squares to the Stockton Town Hall and summoned a patrol wagon from Camden by telephone. Watchman Smith was removed to the Cooper Hospital, Camden, and is in a critical condition, suffering from exposure and concussion of the brain. He is 67 years old and resided at West and Washington streets. It was Smith's duty to push a number of electric buttons in making his rounds of the premises, and it is believed that he had started to go to the stable to press the first button a little before 7 o'clock, when he made a misstep and fell.
Watchman Smith Tumbled Into an Areaway at Night and Was Not Found Until Morning.
Andrew J. Smith, night watchman at the new power plant of the Camden Lighting and Heating Company, in course of construction on Cooper's Creek, at Seventeenth street, fell from a doorway, a distance of twelve feet to the ground, between 6 and 7 o'clock Saturday evening, and lay in a helpless condition, exposed to the elements, until 7 o'clock yesterday morning. How he came to fall Watchman Smith is unable to tell, but the indicator in the office of the station shows that he had not pushed any of the buttric [sic] buttons during the night and the fire in the boiler was burned out when Day Watchman George Wheeler arrived at the station at 6 o'clock yesterday morning. When Wheeler entered the gate to the yard that surrounds the station he heard a groan, and at once got a lantern and made a search for the night watchman.
He found him senseless in an areaway below the doorway from which he had fallen. There were deep gashes in his forehead and lips where his face struck some sharp stones and his face was covered with clotted blood. Wheeler was unable to carry the injured man indoors, but ran six squares to the Stockton Town Hall and summoned a patrol wagon from Camden by telephone. Watchman Smith was removed to the Cooper Hospital, Camden, and is in a critical condition, suffering from exposure and concussion of the brain. He is 67 years old and resided at West and Washington streets. It was Smith's duty to push a number of electric buttons in making his rounds of the premises, and it is believed that he had started to go to the stable to press the first button a little before 7 o'clock, when he made a misstep and fell.
