Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1916 — Benton County Farmer Badly Injured [ARTICLE]

Benton County Farmer Badly Injured

Ambia, August I.—Roy Brown, a farmer residing near Ambia, met with a painful injury yesterday morning at 10 o’clock. He was hauling sheaf oats to a thrashing machine. Another wagon.was standing at the carrier when he drove up and he got off the wagon, leaving his pitchfork on the load. When it came his turn to unload he took another fork and threw some sheaves on the carrier. The fork he had left on the wagon became dislodged and fell off. It struck the drive belt, rebounded and penetrated the skull just over the left eye, the point of one of the prongs coming out near the left temple. > Brown was rendered unconscious and was carried to his home. A physician was summoned and the opinion was expressed last night that he might recover. The accident occurred on Brown’s farm.