Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1919 — SAD ACCIDENT NEAR GOODLAND [ARTICLE]

SAD ACCIDENT NEAR GOODLAND

Well Known Young Farmer Loses Leg in Gasoline Engine. Roy O. Shepard, a well known farmer, aged about 30 years, and residing on the old Shepard homestead a few miles northwest of Goodland, met with a terrible accident last Friday when he attempted to remove the belt from a gasoline engine used in pumping water, with his left foot, something that he bad done scores of times before. In some manner bis foot was caught and the ankle so badly mangled that he was taken to the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago the same evening where the leg was amputated Just below the knee. Gangrene had set in, however, and Saturday the limb was amputated above the knee. He was reported yesterday to be doing nicely. Mr. Shepard is a son of the late Otis Shepard of Goodland, and a Bon-in-law of A. J. Kitt, publisher of the Benton County Tribune.