Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1912 — Old Soldier Suffered Fracture Of Right Hip—Serious Injury. [ARTICLE]

Old Soldier Suffered Fracture Of Right Hip—Serious Injury.

Timothy Comer, 73 years of age and a veteran of the civil war, met a serious misfortune Monday forenoon, having slipped on the icy pavement on the east side of the county jail and suffered an intra-capsular fracture of the right -femur, at the hip. He was taken to the home of bis cousins, the Misses Comer, at the Coiner house, where be has been making his home, and Dr. Kresler was called. He was suffering greatly from the shock and it~i« feared that the injury will go seriously with him. -