Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1914 — Foreigner Laborer on Gifford Railroad Injured Monday. [ARTICLE]

Foreigner Laborer on Gifford Railroad Injured Monday.

Dr. L M. Washburn was called to Pleasant GrOve, where the Monon is having new steel rails laid on the old Gifford road. The work is be ing done by foreigners, Sicilians probably, and one of the men was caught beneath a rail and .suffered the fracture of his left ,leg at the ankle and also had the palm of his left hand badly torn and the metacarpal bone broken and forced through the muscles, making a bad compound fracture.