Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1914 — LOST LEFT HAND IN ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING [ARTICLE]

LOST LEFT HAND IN ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING

Joseph Yeoman, 21 Years of Age, Met With Sad -111 Accident at His Home.

An accident that cost the left hand of Joseph Yeoman, son of Robert J. Yeoman, of Newton township, occurred at about 7 o’clock this Friday morning at the Yeoman home west of Rensselaer. Young Yeoman had gone to the barn and had taken the shotgun along with him. He was standing in the barn door when the gun slipped from hjf hands and fell, butt downward, toward the ground. He grasped for the gun and the hammer caught on the cement sill and the gun was discharged just as his left hand passed over the muzzle of the gun. The hand was torn almost off and Drs. Kresler, of Rensselaer, and Merry, of Mt. Ayr, who were called, found it necessary to amputate that member. The young man and his parents have the sincere sympathy jot their many friends in this sad affliction.