Remarkable Injury of the Heart

On the evening of October 8th, 1877, I vras called to see a coolie who had been crushed between two buffers while shunting carriages at the Amritsar Railway station. I arrived on the epot a few minutes after the accident had occurred, and found the man dead, and was informed by the bystanders that death had been instantaneous. Apparently there was nothing to account for such a calamity ; the face wore a placid expression ; there was no limb injured ; the skin was everywhere unbroken ; the head was untouched, and not a drop of blood was to be seen. On pressing the sternum, I found it yielded about an inch?