Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — FRED ILIFF AND DUD MYERS HURT [ARTICLE]

FRED ILIFF AND DUD MYERS HURT

Jostled OS Running Gears of . Wagon and Cut by SharpStones On Road. Fred Iliff, Dudley Myers and Lee Rardin, all employees of Firman Thompson, on his ranch at Parr, were making a trip Friday morning to get lumber from Ben McColly’s sawmill camp on the Barkley farm. They were riding* on the running gears of the wagons, Iliff and Myers on one wagon, leading a team behind. A kingbolt came out of the wagon on whieh they were riding and they were thrown forward to the stone road and a rear wheel of the wagon passed over them or at least over Iliff. The accident happened near the Nathan Eldridge farm in Barkley township, to* which place Iliff and Myers were taken and a doctor summoned. He found that Iliff had two gashes on the left side of his head, each about 3 inches long and one about 6 inches long on the right side of his head and his right ear almost severed frohi the head. Tt required a number of stitches to close the wounds and Fred did not miss having his entire scalp Lorn off very much. Myers was not so seriously injured but his left ear was almost cut off. It is reported that a bottle of booze was at.the bottom .of the trouble and that without it the accident might readily have been avoided.