Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1920 — RONALD ADAMS KILLED SUNDAY [ARTICLE]

RONALD ADAMS KILLED SUNDAY

DIED THIS MONDAY MORNING FOLLOWING SHOT GUN ACCIDENT. Ronald Adams, 13 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Adams, of five miles northeast of Renselaer, died early this Monday morning at the hospital, the result of an accident which he suffered while playing with some of his boy companions at the Nathan Richards farm near his home Sunday noon. Young Adams with two of his companions had procured a shot gun and had gone to the Richards farm. While one of his companion was in the act of loading the gun young Adams stepped directly in front of it. In cocking the piece the boy permitted the hammer to slip from his fingers and the load was discharged, striking the Adams boy in the right arm and lung. The arm and the flesh of the right side were badly torn. He was taken to the house and -a call was put in for a local ambulance. He was taken to the hospital where it was decided to amputate hds arm.

iowever, his condition was so had that an operation could not be attempted and he sank rapidly until death came. He was conscious until the end hnd apparently did not suffer very much. But,very little has been learned regarding the details of the accident. , . This is the second fatality to be recorded in the Adams family within the past two years, a younger boy having been killed at that time by falling from a horse. There were five children in the family, Ronald being the third in age. The funeral arrangement have not been made.