Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — WOMAN DIES FOLLOWING ACCIDENT [ARTICLE]

WOMAN DIES FOLLOWING ACCIDENT

Mt’S; John Eilts of Union town ship was badly injured Tuesday afternoon when she was seized ,with an attack of heart trouble and fell from the buggy in which she was returning home, catching her feet in the wheel and was dragged for some little distance before being found by friends; the horse having become frightened and ran away. She was immediately brought to the county hospital where it was lounl hgr back was badly injured and the left arm was almost severed below the elbow. It was thought Wednesday that she would recover, and when the nurse went to her bed at 3' o’clock Thursday morning she seemed to be doing nicely, but when she went to the bed again at 5 o’clock it was found she had evidently suffered another fainting spell, which she was subject to, and was lying on her face, dead. Mrs. Eilts and her husbhnd were in China when the European war broke out and could not get back to Germany, so they came "to this country, where he had a brother residing in Union township, and where they have since remained. Both were well educated, but The Democrat is unable at this time to learn very much regarding the woman, as the body is still at Worland’s undertaking establishment, to which it was taken from the hospital, and the funeral arrangements had not been made, and the undertaker not yet having secured the usual data.