Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1917 — OSCAR PHEGLEY BADLY INJURED [ARTICLE]

OSCAR PHEGLEY BADLY INJURED

Was Walking Alongside Wagon When It Tjpped Qyer and -Pinned Him "To the Ground. Wednesday evening just about 5 o’clock as he was driving a team hitched to a wagon with a grain binder loaded upon it and had reached a point on the Pleasant Ridge road about midway between the homes of George Kanne and Floyd Robinson, when the wagon turned over and fell with the binder and all, upon him. Mr. Phegley was driving one of three teams to wagons with the household goods and farming implements of Elmer Phegley, who was moving from near Monticello to the Phegley farm just south of Rensselaer. They had reached the point indicated above

when Oscaf requested his brother, Edward, who was driving the rear team, to go ahead. In order that Edward might pass Oscar pulled his team out to the side of the road. He was walking alongside of his wagon when suddenly it overturned upon him and pinned him to the ground. He lay there with his face buried in the gravel and water and the weight upon him was so heavy that he could not be relieved by his brother and the other gentlemen with them. Finding that it was impossible for them to take the weight off of Oscar, the two men went to the home of Floyd Robinson and George Kanne and the" poor man, suffering the greatest of pain, was left in this position until these parties arrived. As soon as he was released he was brought to the office of a local doctor, who found That he had been severely cut about the head and that his hips were frightfully bruised. The physician washed him and sewed up two arge, ugly gashes in his head and gave him what relief he could and then Mr. Phegley was carried to the hospital. Here he spent a ( fairly good night, but he is in very great pain. It is thought that he is; not mured internally and th at Tie" wi 11 recover satisfactorily.