"AWFUL PLUNGE FOR A GYPSY"
March 20, 1906
"Paul Stanley, the gypsy, has a most thrilling experience and a narrow escape from death last night at ten minutes to nine o’clock when he fell of the Central of Georgia Railway Company at what is known as the high bridge in Phenix City.
The distance is some twenty-five or thirty feet, and that he was not instantly killed seems rather remarkable.
It was dark at this point, and when he started to drive his horse across the wagon bridge there
Mr. Stanley missed the bridge and drove into the space between the bridge and the car track of the Columbus Railroad Company.
The street car track spans the cut at that point, there being only two or three feet of space between the wagon bridge and the car bridge. When the horse fell into the opening
Mr. Stanley was thrown out of the buggy and fell down the railroad track, although fortunately he did strike the rails.
The horse was caught between the two bridges, and was extracted only after considerable trouble, men tying ropes to the animal and pulling him out. The buggy was injured but little.
Mr. Stanley, who was in a rather dazed condition, was taken into a house and was given medical attention.
He complained that his right leg hurt him; and he was bruised all over.
The extent of his injuries cannot yet be accurately stated, but may be serious.
Stanley is well known as a horse trader. He has been camping with a band of gypsies a few miles east of Columbus.
He was very anxious last night to get word in some way to his wife of the accident, but had difficulty in securing the services of a messenger. He is about 60 years old.
The accident illustrates the for street lights in Phenix City."
