July 12, 1887 — Mr. Isaac Cubbage, a young man living near Marksville, met with a serious accident last Saturday night. Leaving Sands Station between 11 and 12 o’clock under the influence of liquor, it is said, he laid down on the railroad track a short distance south of the station and went to sleep.
The freight train going north found him in this condition, and before the engineer could check its speed, ran over him badly crushing his left arm about the elbow, and inflicting a painful wound on his head.
Dr. J.B. Amiss, who fortunately was at the station attending a meeting of the Masonic Lodge, was summoned, and found it necessary to amputate his arm midway between the elbow and shoulder.
At last accounts Mr. C. was doing well.
~ From the public archives of the Page News and Courier
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