Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1912 — Three Jersey Calves Killed By Straw Stack CaveIn. [ARTICLE]

Three Jersey Calves Killed By Straw Stack CaveIn.

Some time Tuesday night a straw stack on the Mrs. Elizabeth Alter farm east of town, caved. In, burying two yearling Jersey heiSers and one Jersey calf. The stack was the property of the tenant, Joe Nessius. Joe had noticed several days before that th% stack was in some danger of falling and had got on it and tramped it down and he thought it was alright again. When he found it caved over he set at the task of uncovering the heifers and found them smothered to death.