Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1916 — Leland Collins Suffered Severe Injury to Knee. [ARTICLE]

Leland Collins Suffered Severe Injury to Knee.

While working at the home of Dr. Kanhal Friday Leland Collins, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mirs. George Collins, suffered a severe injury when an ax he was wielding cut a bad gash in his left knee. Dr. Kresler was called and found it necessary to take three stitches to close up the wound. It is not thought that the bone was injured and if infection can be prevented permanent injury can probably be avoided. Another accident the same day caused the 15-month-old baby of Ellis Thomas and wife to lose the ends of the index and middle fingers of his right hand. The boy unobserved went to a running gasoline engine and his little fingers were crushed in a cogwheel. Mr. Thomas lives in the former R. W. Marshall property now owned by Fred Phillips. Dr. Kresler attended the baby, amputating the mangled fingers at the first joint.