CRUSHED AND PARALYSED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13084, 25 January 1906, Page 3

CRUSHED AND PARALYSED.

TERRIBLE MINING ACCIDENT. BED-HIDDEN" FOR A YEAR. LEFT THE ITOSI'ITAI. A CRIIT'LE. 18 MONTHS OX CRUTCHES. NOV," HARD AT WORK AGAIN. DR. WILLIAMS' FINK PILLS. " If it hadn't been for Dr. Williams' Fink Pill- for Pale People 1 would have gone down to my crave a cripple. You will" admit that when you hear the f.nets of uncafe, said William 1.-onsditU', Underground Manager in the Ilcbbiiru Colliery of the A. and A. Co., West Maitland. Mr. Urnsdale is a brother of George Lonsdale, Esq., J.P.. 8. Carlisle-street, I>-iehhardt, Sydney. He is now living with his son. -lames Lonsdale. of Weston, near West Ma itland. "I. was very nearly crushed to death by a. fall of three tons of coal in Outtrim Mine. II was all torn ami mangled when they dragged me out. Mv hip hones-were ivrokcp, I a great, hole was torn 111 my back, big pieces I of rock wore buried in my. Ho.-h, 11111+ all my inside* were crushed. For 10 week's I lay in Melbourne Hospital, ami'then the doctors gave ir.o up. For a wl.|ole year 1 f never moved off my back. For the nest. 18 months I dragged my.-elf about a few yards every day on crutches—but . 1 - was paralysed from my vaist down, without a nope of ever walking auoriuu .step. Then, I started to take Dr. Williams' Pmk Pills, and, inside of tltrco months, 1 had thrown away my crutches. and gone hack to work in the mine. If is a downright, miracle. Dr. \\ 'limns Pink Fills raised mo up from a paralytic to a strong, healthy man. "It was down in Outtrim 111 1901 that F met with the accident that nearly killed, me, ' said Mr. Lonsdale. "It was the last, day of August, and I was working 111 a gallery that was just 3ft high. ! was stooping down with my hammer well over my shouldei ready to strike. All ol: a sudden three tons ot stone caine crashing down 011 me like thunder. The timber props broko the falland they were the only tiling that tsaved me from being crushed* to a jelly. Four ol my mates rushed up, but they couldn't budge the rock that had buried me. It took 10 men to free me. working like niggers with crowbars. When they got me out sojite of the men _turned sick at the sight, ]. was covered with blood, and there was a great gaping hole whore mv hammer had been driven into my back. The rock had ripped my shoulder's open as clean as if it. were done with a carving knife. My left eye was nearly gouged out. My whole bodywas 0110 bruised and battered mass of flesh and blood. They started to carry me up the. tunnel 011 a stretcher. I begged my mates to put me down in one of the safety cuttings at the side of the tunnel., 1 only wanted to be left there 10 die. 1 was carried home to my horrified wife—and a few minutes later the doctor arrived 1 . 1 *

"By that time.the loss of blood had left mo too weak to speak when (ho doctor was going orer mc. My hip bones were fractured. All my insiacs were crushed. There were dull, gnawing pains round' my . waist <i right, down to my groin. The wound ill*my back went deep down into my loins. Great pieces of stone were driven away into roy ' fleshbut I was in such a ■ low state that the doctors didn't dare to ■ take them" (it . then and there. My life was just hanging by a thread. There didn't seen;; to be t'le slightest chance that I would live the wftck out. But the lodge doctor fought like w Trojan ;o save me. For six weeks ho cant® to see rue night and day. But, in *j»ito of all his care, 1 did not rally. He saw- that L was siniang. and ordered me straight to tho Melbourne Hospital. " Nev::r shall I forget that journey from Outtrim to Melbourne. At iSjjs Station I was carried out 011 si stretcher t<S the Ambulation, and driven to" tho Hospital. ' There they put me under the X-raysand the doctors .'aid at once tifat- ttiore wasn't one atom of hope for me. All they could do was to ease'iny pain." They kept stick--111 syringes into my arm and injecting Morphit:. After that J would go- off "into a. heavy sleepbut always suffered worse when I woke, J had onotfgh Morphia, to kill six . bullocks My hair turned gray in those few weeks. My wound,-; had to be v,-ashed ana dressed three tint!*> a day. TJ;c hammer , wound in my . back ' a-; 6in across, and it had to be plugged with a great lump of«» cotton wool soakvd in carbolic. For »six" weeks 1 lie contents of my bladder had to bo drawn off through a tube--and it was noth-j ing but black blood. A thin piece of frac- > tured bone, an inch long, had worked its 1 way down and blocked my bowel. The agony 1 went through was awful. When the bono came away there was a. great rush of, V blood, and after that I had a little" relief. But, in. spite, of everything, I kept sinking slowly. The Hospital doctors said my case ■ was hopeless. - • - "I lay there on my : back in the Mel- i bourne Hospital for 10 long weeks. When.] they saw I was past the help of medicine,' the Hospital doctors wanted to send me to the Florae for Incurables, whore I could * spend the last few weeks of. my life. But I - made up my mind .to go back home to Outtrim, where I could die with all my family around rue. After reaching Outtrim I lay for 12 months on . the flat of my back with an air pillow liko a lifebuoy under me to keep the gaping wound in my back up off ,the bed. I didn't have the strength of a new-born child. The • only /parts I could move were :nv headland my bands. *1 had to be fed with a spoon. Barley water was • all I could take. My shin bones v.'ere liko " knife blsdes, and my ribs were nearly coming through my skin. I was practically paralysed. My feet were stone cold and numb. Bed sores broke out- all over my back, and hips. I lay in the one position week after week, praying foi Death. J "After 12 months on my back I ,was just able to put my feet on the ground an struggle along' a few steps on crutches," Mr. Lonsdale -went 011 to say. "The« crutches were hung from my shoulders with straps. Every stej. racked me with painfrom head to foot. .[ used to sit by the. window and watch the people going by, saying to myself, ' Will I over walk like you?' All' this time, for 2}. years, I drew- sick pay l from .the Accident Fund. I was worn down to sst- 101b. The lower part of my bodyseemed numb and dead. 1 «was absolutely paralysed—and I would lie paralysed to this day if it hadn't been for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.

"My mates eame to see me ©very day, and my ease was known to everybody in, the country for miles around Outtrim. Om» day an old farmer friend came to see me. When I told him I was paralysed for life r he told me how Dr.. Williams' Pink Pill® bad put men like me' on their feet agaiSr after the, best doctors, had given them up for as. 'as dead. I sent straight to Gleeson's. local store and got a good supply. The .first box didn't do me a,n atom of good. When I was on the third box my appetite picked up, and I started to pull myself together. After that every box of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills did mo more good. In time they healed up all my insides, and gave back life to my paralysed muscles. At. last I was able to throw away my crutches and walk as firm and steady as over. .Sincm then I have grafted at the hardest work down in the pit, and am able to clo more than many men of half my age. There's not a single trace of my accident leftexcept the scars, and J all. carry them to my grave. To my dying day I shall never step telling everyone what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills did for me. My cure is an abso-, lute miracle." When Dr. Williams' Pink Pills saved William Lonsdale after doctors' said he could not possibly live, if. is no wonder that they can cure so easily little ailments liko ansemia, indigestion, biliousness, headaches,\ backaches, rheumatism, neuralgia, nervousness, and the secret blood troubles of women and growing girl-. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills do only one thing, but they do it well —they actually make new blood. But tho blood is the root of all health. If you aro in doubt, about your own case, write for free medical advice to the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington. From that address you can also order by mail the genuine Dr. Williams' Pink Pills—3s a box, six boxes 16s 6d, post free.