R.F. Tidd Dead.
Robert F. Tidd, one of the pioneer residents of Manning, died at Omaha last Friday, and was brought to Manning for burial on Sunday last.

Mr. Tidd was one of the first settlers in Manning residing here for years and moved to Omaha, where he has resided for the last sixteen years.

He has been ailing for nearly two years and not able to do anything, but was thought to be getting a little better and on Friday he was trying to get downstairs when he fell and dislocated his neck, which caused death very soon.

Mr. Tidd was 69 years old and a native of Ohio.

The funeral took place at the Christian Church at 11 o'clock Sunday morning and the remains were laid beside his three children in the Arney Cemetery (Iowa Township Cemetery), west of town. Mrs. Tidd was the only one accompanying the remains from Omaha.

The two sons, Frank and Willie are supposed to be yet alive, but have not been heard of for some time.

Mrs. Tidd will visit a few days in Manning and vicinity and then go to Marshall County, her old home where she has two sisters living.

Iowa Township tombstone records: Robert Tidd 7/8/1838 to 1/2/1908

ROBERT TIDD DEAD
Lived one Week with His Neck Broken
Robert Tidd, brother of Mrs. James Bosley, of this place died in a hospital at St. Louis, Missouri, last Thursday, January 2, 1908, from the results of a dislocated neck, mention of which was made in these columns last Week.

The St. Louis Post Dispatch contained his picture a few days ago and the following account of his treatment at the hospital: "Despite the efforts of the City Hospital physicians to restore his displaced vertebrae to their normal position.

Robert Tidd died at that institution yesterday noon. He had been suffering since Christmas with a broken neck.

Tidd, a blacksmith, fell down a short flight of steps in the basement of his home, No. 3129 Pine Street, and the second vertebra of his spine was dislocated allowing his head to fall limply forward. When he was taken to the City Hospital the next day the surgeons contrived a metal brace to fit over the head and shoulders of the patient, with pulleys arranged so as to stretch the head away from the shoulders, while a rod at the rear pressed against the spine. This was done for the double purpose of keeping the head erect, thus straightening the spinal cord and forcing the dislocated joint back into its proper position.

The patient's condition was improved after the "harness" was adjusted, and the surgeons wore hopeful that be might pull through. The shock to his system before this treatment was administered was too severe, the surgeons believe, and death resulted.

Born in Ohio, July 8, 1838, Tidd was 69 years old. He was buried with his wife, Susanna (Franklin) Tidd, in Iowa Township Cemetery, northeast of Aspinwall.

BROKEN NECK IS FATAL, BROKEN BACK IS NOT
Robert Tidd, Hurt in Fall, Dies Frank Tinturi Survives Mine Accident.
ONE NURSES HIMSELF
Other is Taken at Once to Hospital and Put in Plaster Cast.
A broken neck is more dangerous than a broken back, according to the diverse fates of Robert Tidd, who died at the City Hospital from a fracture of the fifth cervical vertebra, and of Frank Tinturi, whose recovery from a broken back is expected by physicians at the Deaconess Hospital.

Tidd fell down a flight of stairs Christmas Eve at his home, 3129 Pine Street, and alighted on his head. For five days afterwards he complained of a "stiff neck," which he treated himself with hot-water bandages. When the pain became intolerable, he asked to be taken to the city hospital, where an X-ray examination revealed the gravity of his injury.

Put In Plaster Cast
After he had rebelled against an operation, the physicians devised a metal swing in which his head was supported in an upright position. Then they put his neck in a plaster cast. He died at noon yesterday, shortly after he had declared his intention of returning home to his hot-water bandages, which he thought more efficacious than professional treatment. He was 69 years old.

Tinturi, who is a miner, injured his spine over a week ago in a cave-in in mine No. 4, Bush, Illinois. His body was encased in a plaster cast and he made the 50-mile trip to St. Louis on a stretcher. No X-ray examination of his injuries has yet been made.
St. Louis, Missouri, Post Dispatch, January 3, 1908