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Run Over

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  • Title: Run Over
  • Date: 19 July 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01397
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 19 July 1859: 3. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Cassandra Jannel Simms Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Run Over." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.01397.xml (TEI)
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RUN OVER.—

About half past 7 o'clock this morning, as a young man named John Brown, living at Valley Grove, was driving a swill wagon, his foot slipped while at the corner of Myrtle and Classon avenues, and he fell to the pavement. The wheels of the wagon ran over his body and severely injured him. He was taken to the drug store adjacent, where his wounds were dressed, and he was sent to the City Hospital.

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