Hi Everyone,
Found this news paper article. Interesting that the event was in Pennsylvania and the article was in the Dallas Morning News in Dallas, Texas.
Does anyone know who this person might be?

Take care - Emma

Dallas Morning News - 2 Oct 1894 - pg. 3

Broke His Back While Wrestling
Erie, Pa., Oct. 1 -- Alvin Carnahan of Westyville was brought from the Edinboro state normal school to the Hamot hospital last night in a most pitiable condition. Carnahan and Winslow Breedy, a fellow student, both athletes, engaged in catch-as-catch-can wrestling. Carnahan broke his back trying to throw his adversary over his head. Technically it was a fracture or displacement near the juncture of the cervical and dorsal vertebrae. Carnahan fell to the ground paralyzed and without sensation from the breast bone down. The hospital surgeons are considering trephining to remove the preassure to the spinal cord as the only possible remedy.
Carnahan, though conscious, has no physical suffering.