Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1916 — Young Lad Badly Hurt Thursday Over in Milroy Tp. [ARTICLE]

Young Lad Badly Hurt Thursday Over in Milroy Tp.

Warren Kastner, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Kastner, who live on the W. W. Sage farm in ‘Milroy tp., met with a "very severe accident Thursday morning about 8 o’clock. He was driving three horses to a plow when the horses became frightened at a ground squirrel and started to run, throwing him off and catching his right leg in the wheel of the plow and badly breaking the limb at the knee, the large bone protruding through the flesh. The horses soon stopped and the boy climbed on the plow and drove about a quarter of a mile to a field gate near the house, where his calls attracted the attention of Trustee Harvey W. Wood, jr., who happened to be at the farm. Drs. Gwin Kresler were called and attended the boy, but the break was so bad that it is feared it will be necessary to amputate the limb. The bone protruded through the flesh about six inches, it is said. The lad passed a very bad night, and yesterday morning it was thought possible he would be taken to a hospital for treatment.