Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1912 — Calf Lived After Being Buried For Fifty-Eight Hours. [ARTICLE]

Calf Lived After Being Buried For Fifty-Eight Hours.

An article in The Republican a few days ago told of the burial of two yearling heifers and a suckling calf by the cave-in of a straw stack on the Mrs. E. P. Alter' farm, east of town. The stack was the property of the farm tenant, Joe Nesslus. Wednesday morning following the cave-ln, he pitched away enough straw to uncover the yearling heifers and found them both dead, but he could find no trace of the little one, as it was too far under the stack. Presuming it,- too, must be dead, the moving of the stack was deferred. This Friday morning., however, he heard a noise coming from within the stack and securing help proceeded to remove the straw and in a crevice at the center the calf was found. The calf was far from dead, notwithstanding the fact that it; had been covered up in the narrow* crevice for 58 hours and when it was : turned in with its mother it set rightjj in to make up for lost time and broke 1 its long fast in a very gluttonish. 1 manner.