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...signed a death certificate and left. Then Leonard found empty sleeping pill bottles and notes indicating suicide. Leonard and the police spent a couple of hours making a routine search and filling out forms. At last they called the morgue. Mrs. Butler's body was strapped to a stretcher and carried in an upright position in the tiny elevator to the street...
Adams back Duncan Stevens had his leg broken in a pile-up. He was rushed to Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. In another scrimmage tussle Dunster lineman Fred Koch appeared to have broken his neck. Teammates carried Koch from the field on a stretcher, but doctors at Dillon Field House said the injury was only a non-serious muscle pull...
...Sierra Nevada range. That was 25 roadless miles from the doctor's office in Lone Pine (elev. 3,728 ft.). No plane could land near the camp. Nothing to do but pack in. At 3 :30, Dr. Shultz set out on horseback, with a mule carrying a stretcher, an instrument bag and plasma...
Getting her down the mountain next day was a business. A rider tried to carry her on a pillow but his arms went numb with the strain. So the rest of the way they carried her on the stretcher. They stopped twice to give her more plasma and sedatives...
Another time, she attended an overflow meeting conducted by a faith healer, who with his exhortations and layings-on-of-hands had set Columbus afire. Somehow she got hold of a stretcher, lay down on it, and had a couple of friends carry her toward the platform. Halfway down the aisle, Mamie flipped to her feet, yelling, "I can walk! I can walk! It's the first time I've walked in 40 years!" Hundreds wept or screamed at the miracle...