This headline appeared at the top of the center column on the front page of Harrisburg's The Patriot newspaper on Saturday, July 25, 1903. The article described the unfortunate events that lead to the amputation of Oren's right leg.
The text of the article read as follows:
While attempting to elude an officer by boarding a freight train near Steelton yesterday afternoon, Orin Stoner, aged seventeen years, of 3 Lochiel Row, fell between the car wheels and had his right leg so badly crushed that amputation was necessary.
Stoner, with several companions, had been lounging back of the car barn of the Harrisburg Traction Company, and complaint was made to Chief of Police John Buser, of Steelton, that they were drinking and creating a disturbance. Officer Buser set out to arrest the boys, but when he was seen approaching the gathering broke up and they scattered in all directions.
Stoner, closely followed by the officer, ran through the streets and across the vacant lots above the yards of the Steelton and Harrisburg Brick Company. When he came to the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad he attempted to board a freight train which was moving rapidly toward Harrisburg, but in his haste slipped from the stirrup and fell between the wheels, two trucks passing over his right leg and the end of his left foot.
The boy was taken immediately to the Harrisburg Hospital, where the leg and several toes of the left foot were amputated. The boy was resting comfortably last night and will probably recover.
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