Sullivan County TN Archives News.....A Pair of Scissors March 14, 1893
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The Weekly Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. March 14, 1893
Sink Deep Into a Man's Side and May Kill Him.

Bristol, Tenn., March 9. -- A peculiar and perhaps fatal accident befell F. C. 

Harrington, a former general passenger agent of the South Atlantic and Ohio 

railway.  He was at the Hotel Intermont at Bigstone Gap, of which he is now 

proprietor, when the sad accident happened.



This morning he was sitting in a chair in one of the rooms of the hotel and was 

clipping some paper with a pair of scissors.  He started to lean back, lost his 

balance and fell.  He threw out his right hand to save himself and the 

scissors, which he was still holding, were driven in his side their entire 

length.  Only the handles were left protruding.



A physician was summoned, but he was afraid to withdraw the scissors for fear 

Mr. Harrington would bleed to death.



The gentleman, who gave your reporter his information, states that when he left 

the gap, the physicians were talking of cutting around the scissors and closing 

the arteries before attempting to draw them out.  Dr. M. M. Butler, surgeon of 

the South Atlanta and Ohio road, left here at noon and is in attendance upon 

the wounded man.  At last accounts he was considered to be in a very dangerous 

condition.  Though late reports say Mr. Harrington's physicians say he is 

resting; easy now. 

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