Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1916 — Miss Gertrude Hopkins Meets With Serious Accident [ARTICLE]

Miss Gertrude Hopkins Meets With Serious Accident

Miss Gertrude Hopkins, the assistant in the State bank of Rensselaer, met with a very serious accident ed would result in the total loss of Saturday morning which it was fearher left eye. She had gone to the safe to take out a package of small change when she struck the lever of the safe with her eye glasses and the glass over the left eye was broken and the broken parts cut three gashes in the pupil of the eye. Miss Hopkins was rushed to Chicago on the 10:46 train and was accompanied by Dr. English and Mrs. C. C. Warner. She was taken to the Wesley hospital were an operation was performed that afternoon on the injured eye and it was thought the member would be saved, although the sight will be greatly impaired and may be lost altogether. It is thought Miss Hopkins will have to remain in the hospital about three weeks before returning home.