Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1911 — BOYS GO ON A BUM; ONE GETS BROKEN LEG. [ARTICLE]

BOYS GO ON A BUM; ONE GETS BROKEN LEG.

Bay Day Suiters Fracture of Right Leg A bote Ankle After Stealing Ride to Cedar Lake. . . . 1 Ray Day, son of Hiram' Day by his first marriage, who makes his home in the east part of town with his* mother and his crippled brother. Dan, is laid up with a broken leg and will probably be unable to do any work for the next three months. Ray went bumming Thursday afternoon with Lee Richards, Roy Koepkey and “Arkansas” Wiseman. The boys*are said to' have “hopped” No. 6, the north bound passenger due here at 3:15, and gone to Cedar Lake, ufust how young Day’s accident happened seems a little .in doubt. He states that luj was engaged m a wrestle near the depot with a member of the railroad extr-\ gang, and fell some way with his right leg under him. The fracture is of* the large boner about six Inches above the ankle. According to his story and that of Richards, a Lowell doctor was called and attention given the injury. The dressing was very crude, but might have been all that was available at the time. Two boards joined together at right angles with the- heel of the foot m the corner and bandages fastening the leg to the boards constituted the dressing. The drawers leg was cut off and the trousers .leg ripped, but the trousers were bound about the leg inside the bandages. The accident happened at about 7:30 o’clock Thursday evening, according to the boys, and Day made an effort to get the night passenger train, due here at 11:05 o’clock, to stop at Cedar Lake and take him on, but the agent there did not get it to stop and he did not get home until 11:06 today. He sat in the depot at Cedar Lake all night and when he arrived home today the limb was so badly* swollen that it was almost impossible to tell the extent of the injury or to set it. Apparently the limb was not straight and Day thought the doctor from Lowell did not set it at -all. The local physician gave it attention. The young man had suffered a great amount of exposure an# will be lucky if it does not cause him a severe sickness. According to one story the boys, or some of them got tolerably drank after getting to Cedar Lake and Day was sitting on the platform in front of the saloon when the saloonkeeper came out and sat down on Ms lap heavily, doubling his leg under him and breaking it. Another story i» that the accident happened wMle the boys were hopping on and off trains. The Day home certainly presented a sad appearance. Mrs. Day is herself an invalid, and her son Dan, who is again making his home with her, is badly deformed. And now to have tha other sem and the -only support of the family brought home with a broken leg, was a blow almost too great to bear. Mrs. Day stated that she had begged Ray not to leave home and she took on pitifully when he was carried into the honse. His misfortune should be a lesson to other boys who are guilty of ming” and cause parents of all to be more strict with them.