Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1913 — Little Sheldon Girl Lost Right Arm in Feed Grinder. [ARTICLE]

Little Sheldon Girl Lost Right Arm in Feed Grinder.

Sheldon, 111., Journal.' Little Edith Riker, the six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mose Riker, living at the edge of the corporation in the northwest part of town, met with a terrible accident Thursday forenoon just before dinner, which cost her right arm. Mr. Riker was using the feed grinder cutting some feed for the cows, and the little girl was playing around the machine, as is natural for all children. While funning around she stumbled and fell, her right hand being caught between the sweep wheel and the framework of the machine. The space was scarcely an inch, but it was. sufficiently large to permit her little Ungers being caught and thus drawing her hand and arm in. Before the machine could be stopped, her right arm had been reduced almost to a pulp, necessitating amputation, the operation being performed that afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Riker are almost frantic with grief over the sad affair, but it is one of the accidents that could not be averted. Edith is a bright little girl, and started going' to school this fall. She took a great interest in the work and was getting along nicely. The sympathy of the entire community goes out to Mr. and Mrs. Riker and ,the little girl in this awful misfortune.