Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal, November 9, 1891, p. 6. Henry McCormick, aged 55 years, whose home is near Scottsburg, Ind., 28 miles from this city, met with injuries by being run down by a Dinkey train in Jeffersonville at eleven o'clock yesterday morning, that will be likely to terminate in his death. The train had just left the prison station when, as the curve just above Smyser Avenue was being approached, William Whittick, engineer on locomotive 608 perceived McCormick staggering along beside the track only a short distance in advance. The signal of danger was sounded, but just then the man stepped directly in front of the engine. His right leg was so horribly mangled that Drs. T. A. and O. P. Graham and D. C. Peyton were summoned to amputate it, which they did at the Sherman House in the afternoon. McCormick's condition is critical, and on account of his enfeebled condition he will hardly be able to withstand the shock. On Saturday, accompanied by his wife, he came to the city to do some shopping. He drank freely and was soon intoxicated. On the way to the Ninth-Street Railroad station, in the afternoon, where he and Mrs. McCormick intended to board the train for home, he left his wife standing on the pavement while he entered David A. Ball's saloon. The proprietor's wife was behind the bar, and McCormick, it is claimed, told the woman that he was acquainted with her. She denied what he had said, and McCormick remarked, so it is alleged, that Mrs. Ball told a lie. At this junction, Ball came in and assaulted McCormick, bruising his head in a painful manner. When McCormick was ejected into the street, he was unable to find his wife. Proceeding to the depot, he found her, and when the train arrived, he boarded it, but owing to his maudlin condition was immediately put off whole Mrs. McCormick continued her journey home. Yesterday morning several more drinks rendered him almost helpless, and when he got on the railroad track he was unable in his befuddled state to realize his danger. His relatives were notified, but no word had been received from them last night.