General Superintendent Gilchrist of the
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

General Superintendent Gilchrist of the S. C. & N. met with an accident on Saturday evening last. He in company with another man was traveling on a hand-car at the rate of twenty miles per hour when an obstruction was encountered. General Gilchrist was thrown high in the air and lighting upon his left shoul- der, it was badly fractured. A special convey- ing the wounded man arrived here Sunday morning, and he was conveyed to the Sisters’ hospital where he was attended by Dr. E. L. Stephens. He is doing nicely.