Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1918 — STRUCK IN EYE BY STAPLE [ARTICLE]

STRUCK IN EYE BY STAPLE

Orbin Warne Receives Injury in Peculiar Manner. Orbin Warne, youngest son of Drayman F. E. Warne and wife, had his right eye badly injured Friday evening. Young Warne was hauling rock for Road Superintendent W. 8. Parks and with some of the other men stopped at the Bell I Center school house just north of town to get a drink. In trying to .climb through the barbed wire fence I the wires were top close together to 'allow them to crawl through and Orbin kicked the lower wire to loosen it, when a staple which held the wire in place flew out and struck him squarely in the right eye, the prongs sticking in the eye ball on each side of the pupil. The staple was pulled out by Jake Gilmore and others who were there with him and he was brought to town by Leo Worland, who hap- [ pened along just at that time, and taken to the county hospital. He is resting quite easy now and the doctors think there are hopes of saving the eye sight, as the pupil was not penetrated.