Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1908 — FIGHT HOGS FOUR HOURS BEFORE HELP ARRIVES. [ARTICLE]

FIGHT HOGS FOUR HOURS BEFORE HELP ARRIVES.

Boonvllle, Ind., Nov. 17.—Mrs. Rebecca Rice, age eighty-four, who lives near Selvin, yesterday suffered two broken limbs in a fight with hogs that were eating her chickens. Mrs. Rice heard her chickens squaking in the hog pen. She hurried to the pen and as she climbed the fence in an effort to stop the slaughter, she slipped upon a wet trough and fell, breaking her right arm and right leg. This happened at 10 o’clock In the morning. A neighbor woman came to her assistance and beat off the hogs, but was too weak to assist Mrs. Rice out of the pen. It was 2 o’clock in the afternoon before their cries brought further assistance. During all this time Mrs. Rice suffered great agong from her injuries and her neighbor stood by her - side fighting off the hogs. When assistance did come both had to be helped to the house. Mrs. Rice is not expected to recover from the shock.