Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1907 — ARM BROKE IN RUNAWAY. [ARTICLE]

ARM BROKE IN RUNAWAY.

James A. Keister of Jordan tp., was in town Tuesday morning with his daughter Myrtle whom he brought in to have the doctor see if her injured wrist was getting along all right. The injury was caused from jumping from a buggy on Tuesday night of last week while returning from the Uncle Tom’s Cabin show. It seems she came to the show with Will Haver, a young man of that neighborhood who drove a four-year-old colt; and in going home he got out to open a gate that they had to pass through, when the horse took fright and started to run. The girl jumped out and struck on her left hand in such a manner as to break both bones es the wrist. Hayerhad hold of one line and hong to the horse until he stopped it, being dragged for a dozen rods or more in a ditoh next the hedge filled with about two feet of water. He finally pulled horse into the hedge and stopped it, but was a sight when he got on his feet, being completely plastered with mud and soaking wet.