Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1916 — LITTLE KASTNER BOY DIED EASTER SUNDAY [ARTICLE]

LITTLE KASTNER BOY DIED EASTER SUNDAY

12-Year-Old Son of William Kastner Died From Severe Shock of Runaway Accident. Warren Kastner, the 12-year-oid son of William O. Kastner, who was hurt last Thursday morning in a runaway while plowing at the W .W. Sage farm, died Sunday morning at the home of his parents at about 7 o’clock. The little lad never recovered from the shock caused by the accident. When the leg was broken the large bone of the thigh protruded from the skin at the knee about six inches.

Warren was in the fifth grade in the public school and all his little friends will mourn his sad death. There are, besides the boy’s parents, three sister to mourn his death. The unfortuante parents of the boy came to Newland last year from Pekin, 111., and put out an onion crop which was a total failure because of the heavy rains. Some of the people of Rensselaer have come to their assistance by helping Rev. Curnick in collecting enough money to send the body back to the former home in Illinois.