Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1914 — Joe O’Connor Injured by Stepping on Glass at Hammond. [ARTICLE]

Joe O’Connor Injured by Stepping on Glass at Hammond.

Joseph O’Connor, son of John O’Connor, who has been employed ala a bridge builder for some years and who lives at Hammond, suffered a painful injury tost Saturday evening while at,the railroad dhops at West Hammond. He stepped on a piece of glass, Which penetrated his shoe and passed between the cords of his toot and embedded itself just below the ankle. He tried to pull the gla.s out but it broke off and he went to a physician’s office, and the doctor put in an hour and 20 minutes getting it out. The piece which Was removed was 7-8 of an inch long, an eighth of an inch thick and a fourth of an inch wide. Joe will be laid up tor a week or ten days.