Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1907 — A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. [ARTICLE]

A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

I Oq Saturday morning, as Leslie Alter of Union tp., was abjusting the ropes in the hay fork in the barn, it suddenly ran the rope through the pully. darted down twenty-five feet, striking him in the shoulder; but at that instant the knot in the end of the rope caught and saved it from pinning him to the floor, leaving him a sore shoulder but thankful for no worse results.