Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1916 — Discus Kills Elkhart Boy at First Track Practice. [ARTICLE]

Discus Kills Elkhart Boy at First Track Practice.

Elkhart, Ind., March 31.—Struck by a discus thrown by another high school student while practicing events, Walter Lloyd, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Lloyd, late this afternoon suffered a skull fracture, which resulted fatally in less than an hour. The hoy was with a crowd of other boys watching the first tryout of the season. The discus was thrown by Lowell Flickinger, who nearly eollapsed as the result of the accident. Lloyd was a freshman in the high school. „