Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1919 — DAYTON BOY MET TERRIBLE DEATH MONDAY. [ARTICLE]

DAYTON BOY MET TERRIBLE DEATH MONDAY.

Leonard Rose, age 18, a farm hand on the Harvey Griffin farm two miles east of Dayton, is dead as the result of an accident which occurred about 4:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The young man was discing in the field a short distance from the house, when the team which he was driving ran away, Insetting the disc and dragging the driver underneath. The horses did not stop until they had covered the entire length of the 80-rod .-field and - had returned half way across it. Mr. Griffin was working in an adjoining field, some distance away, and ran to the assistance of Rose as soon as he saw the horses start to run. When he arrived on the scene the horses had stopped/ and the boy was dead, having been cut to pieces. His head was practically severed from his body and there were numerous cuts over his body. Dr. W. F. Mcßride, of Dayton, was called to the Griffin farm, hut the young man had been dead for some time before the physician arrived.