Taylor Wainwright's accident with an axe, 1905
NEW JERSEY COURIER 6 APR 1905
Taylor G. Wainright of Toms River cut himself badly with an axe at Island Heights last Monday morning, having a narrow escape from death. The cut was on the forehead, and the frontal bone was sheared through.
Wainright was breaking up a piece of an old boardwalk, working for Arthur Stokes, and was striking with the back of the axe. There was a clothesline over his head, but he did not know it. He struck a heavy blow, the axe caught the line, and the sharp blade took him in the forehead. The bony process over the right eye was cut through, and another cut was made higher up on the forehead, which also went through the bone. Dr. Disbrow is attending him, and says that it was a very close call. Wainright is about the house.
Taylor was born an ulucky man. If there was any way to get hurt he has the reputation for stumbling into it. He nearly cut his foot off with an axe a few years ago, and has had several bad accidental injuries, besides a shipwreck or two. He was on Capt. Clarence Birdsall's schooner Anna Murray when she went to pieces at Cape Henlopen.
Taylor G. Wainright of Toms River cut himself badly with an axe at Island Heights last Monday morning, having a narrow escape from death. The cut was on the forehead, and the frontal bone was sheared through.
Wainright was breaking up a piece of an old boardwalk, working for Arthur Stokes, and was striking with the back of the axe. There was a clothesline over his head, but he did not know it. He struck a heavy blow, the axe caught the line, and the sharp blade took him in the forehead. The bony process over the right eye was cut through, and another cut was made higher up on the forehead, which also went through the bone. Dr. Disbrow is attending him, and says that it was a very close call. Wainright is about the house.
Taylor was born an ulucky man. If there was any way to get hurt he has the reputation for stumbling into it. He nearly cut his foot off with an axe a few years ago, and has had several bad accidental injuries, besides a shipwreck or two. He was on Capt. Clarence Birdsall's schooner Anna Murray when she went to pieces at Cape Henlopen.
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