Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1913 — ALMOST LOST HAND WHEN GUN DISCHARGED [ARTICLE]

ALMOST LOST HAND WHEN GUN DISCHARGED

Glenn Tanner Climbed Through Wire Fence When Rabbit Hunting With Frightful Result. Glenn Tanner, 17-year-old son of D. E. Tanner, living on the William Washburn farm Southwest of Rensselaer, suffered a serious injury in a hunting accident Friday afternoon that will leave him a badly crippled hand, if the doctors succeed in saving it at all Glenn was hunting with a 10-guage shotgun and was in the act of climbing through a barbed wire fence when the gun was discharged. His left hand was at the muzzle and the shot tore entirely through the Wrist, entering on the thumb side and passing diagonally across to the little finger, tearing bone and muscle as it went. The doctors hope to save the hand and will be able to do so,_ they say, unless infection starts in.