Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1912 — Mower Pierces Boy's Heart. [ARTICLE]

Mower Pierces Boy's Heart.

Bloomington, Aug. 3. —While assisting in hay harvest on the Charles Onsler farm, south of this city, Orville Johnson, twelve years old, son of Mrs. Frank Johnson, a widow, was killed when he fell from a horse and was thrown directly in the path of a. mowing machine. Before the machine could be stopped one of the blades was plunged through the boy’s heart and death resulted five minutes afterward.