Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1913 — BAD ACCIDENTS TO TWO YOUNG MEN [ARTICLE]

BAD ACCIDENTS TO TWO YOUNG MEN

Charles Swing, of Hanging Grove, and Leslie Pollard, South of This City, Are Victims. ' ' 4_ Charles Swing, a young married man residing in the east part of Hanging Grove township, suffered the loss of his left eye Sunday as the result of cracking a whip. He was riding horseback, carrying a buggy whip and driving some horses in front of him. He cracked the whip and the tip end struck him in the left eye, puncturing the outer covering and letting the fluid run frem the anterior chamber. He was taken to Laiayette and placed in a hospital, where suigeons found it necessary to remove the eyebr.il. Mr. Swing has a wife and three small children. Leslie Pollard, a member of the 1913 graduating class of the Rensselaer high school, suffered a fracture of the tip.end of the humerous of the left arm at the elbow Monday, also the dislocation of one bone at the elbow and was otherwise bruised up. George Kennedy was visiting at the Bollard home and Leslie was helping to hiteh the family driving horse when it kicked him with the serious result above stated. '