Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1915 — Boy’s Leg Broken in Four Places in Cranking Auto. [ARTICLE]

Boy’ s Leg Broken in Four Places in Cranking Auto.

One of the worst accidents of its kind that ever occurred in the county that Tuesday out at Ira Brown s, 6 miles southeast of Rensselaer, in Jordan tp., when Bernard, his 11-year-old son, went into the shed where Mr. Brown's automobile , v,as kept and attempted to crank same, which he had done several times before. The motor back-fired * and the handle of the crank struck j the boy on the left leg, and seems to , have thrown him in such a way that it struck him again on the same leg f between the knee and ankle, causing two fractures between the knee and thigh and two fractures between the knee and foot. [ Dr. English was called and at- • tended the lad’s injuries, and he states that it is the first case that he had ever heard of where one’s leg was broken from cranking an automobile, although there have been a great many cases where arms and wrists were broken in this vicinity. The lad will be laid up 'for several weeks, but it is not thought that he will be permanently crippled.