Columbus (Indiana) Evening Republic, February 8, 1897, p. 4. MISS LONG SERIOUSLY HURT The Cost of Lighting a Cigar Miss Myrtle Long, who teaches in the Whitecreek School, is lying in a critical condition at her home in Jonesville. She met with a sad accident while out sleighing with Joe Kirkhoff last Tuesday night. He asked Miss Long to hold the lines while he lighted a cigar, and as the animals were frisky, this she was unable to do. They started to run, and Miss Long jumped from the sleigh striking her head against a telegraph pole breaking her jawbone in three places and knocking her teeth loose. She was unconscious when picked up and has since been suffering with nervous prostration brought on by the fright and shock sustained.