Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1916 — Kastner Lad Died Sunday Following Terrible Injury. [ARTICLE]

Kastner Lad Died Sunday Following Terrible Injury.

Warren Theodore Kastner, the 12-year-old boy who got his right knee and leg so badly broken last Thursday forenoon at the Sage farm over in the edge of Milroy tp„ when the team he was driving to a sulky plow became frightened at a ground squirrel and threw him off the seat and his leg got caught in the wheel of the plow, mention of which was made in Saturday’s Democrat, died at about 7 a. m. Sunday, following the shock and injury. Funeral services were held at the Kastner home Monday afternoon and the body was shipped from Remington to the former home of the Kastners at Pekin, 111., Monday evening. He leaves three sisters besides his parents to mourn his loss. The death of this young lad was a peculiarly sad one. He was a bright young boy and after the accident, with the bone of the broken limb protruding through the flesh nearly six inches, he mounted the plow after the team had stopped and drove up to a gate near the house and summoned assistance. It was a terribly bad injury and the doctors had but faint hope of saving his life from the first. The Kastner family moved here to Newland about a year ago and put in an onion crop which was ruined by the heavy rains. Rev. Curnick and others in Rensselaer assisted in raising funds to ship the body back to Illinois for burial.