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This small private hospital at the corner of Mulberry and Sugar Streets was the closest care facility where Nile Stadler could be rushed. Doctors brought the teenager back to consciousness and found that though he had broken ribs, bruises, and abrasions, he would survive that dangerous crash.
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It was from this point on Mulberry Street that the sledding youths launched their dangerous run on Jan. 19, 1920. After accumulating speed, the boys lost control on some rough ground near the bottom of the hill and hit a telephone pole. The hospital Nile Stadler was brought to sat on the left in this photo, near where The Living Center is today.
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The bottom of the hill on North Mulberry Street where the sledding youths had a painful run-in with a stubborn telephone pole.
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Nile Stadler, the driver of the bobsled in this story, played on the Mount Vernon High School football team. He is seen here, third from left in the front row, in the 1919 yearbook team photo. Nile dropped out at the end of his junior year and joined the army, later moving to West Virginia, where he worked in a glass factory, the same job that brought his father to Mount Vernon around 1910. Nile’s father, George Stadler, remained in Mount Vernon and passed away in 1945.
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