Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1905 — BAD ACCIDENT IN JORDAN. [ARTICLE]

BAD ACCIDENT IN JORDAN.

Ten-Year-Old Boy Has Foot Cut off In flowing Hachine. The 10-year-old grandson of John Beecher of Jordan tp., got his foot cut nearly off in a mowing machine Saturday. It seems Mr. Beecher went to the field to cut bay, the boy accompanig him. He mowed around the field, telling the boy to remain at the corner where he started in. His attention was taken up with his team and he did not notice the boy again, but after cutting twice around he turned and made a back cut next to the fence. When near the corner where he started he heard the boy scream, and before the team could be stopped the sickle bad cut one of the lad’s feet almost off at a point just above the ankle, it bolding only by one cord. Doctors were at once summoned from Goodland and the member was bound back on in the hope that perhaps it might be saved and be of some use to the boy. At this writing the injured boy is getting along as well as could be expected although greatly weakened by loss of blood. It seems that he had sat down in a clump of grass next to the fence or hedge, not expecting his grandfather would cut back again on that side, and before he realized it the mower was upon him. The boy’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Thurlow, reside at Rock Island, 111., and with his mother he was out here to spend several weeks with Mr. Beecher, as is their custom ever summer. Latest reports from the boy are to the effect that the doctors will probably have to amputate the foot.