Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1908 — FALLS FROM ROOF AND BREAKS HIS LEG. [ARTICLE]

FALLS FROM ROOF AND BREAKS HIS LEG.

John Andrus met with a very serious accident while cleaning off the roof of a barn an the Eggleston ranch, south of Fair Oaks, Tuesday at about one o’clock. He had finished the roof and was in the act of taking the scaffold off when he stepped on a scantling held in place by a cross-grained shingle. The shingle, which seems to have become broken by the strain to which it had been subject, gave way and precipitated him to the ground 16 feet below, where he landed on some cement blocks, striking on his left hip and the lower portion of his hack, sustaining internal injuries, besides the left leg was broken just below the body and the broken bone twisted sidewise. With the assistance of some parties present be put the broken bone in place as best he could and sent for Dr. Washburn, who fixed him up, and he was brought to the home of his father Geo.. W. Andrus, just north of town, where he is resting as well as could be expected under the circumstances. Three years ago in December the elder Andrus, while hauling straw, fell ofT the loaded wagon as it was going down a steep Incline, and broke his left leg in two places, which came near proving fatal. He was laid up -more than a year, and still suffers intensely from the injury. On the north end of the same farm where the elder Andrus was injured, Lee E. Glazebrook, then his tenant, some four or five years ago, fell from a load of hay, dislocating his left, shoulder and breaking his right ankle, from the effects of which he was confined to the house several months. He too has never fully recovered from the effects of his injury.