Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1911 — BAD ACCIDENT IN JORDAN [ARTICLE]

BAD ACCIDENT IN JORDAN

Hay Fork Falls, Piercing Limb of Alpha Christley. Alpha Christley, a well known young farmer of west Jordan, met with a terribly bad accident last Friday forenoon while mowing hay in his barn. The devise bolt attaching the rope to the harpoon hay fork had dropped out unnoticed and left the fork hanging only by the iron ring. It broke loose and fell ten or twelve feet, striking diagonally the calf of Mr. Christley’s left leg, passing entirely through it and making a fearful gash. The unfortunate man, who was alone in the mow, pulled the fork from his leg and came down out of the barn, when he fainted away* Doctors Parkison and Collier were hastily summoned from Brook and the wound cleaned out and bandaged. It w,as necessary to chloroform the patient while cleansing out tho wound, and he suffers terribly each time it is dressed. At this writing he is reported to be getting along as nicely as cart be expected. Had the sharp point of the fork struck him in the upper part of the body he would undoubtedly have been killed at once. • 1