Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1919 — MEETS A PECULIAR ACCIDENT [ARTICLE]

MEETS A PECULIAR ACCIDENT

Rod of Auto Tire Pump Injures Louie Warren. “Doll” Warren, who resides on the Yeoman and Hopkins farm, north of town, met with a peculiar accident last Friday afternoon while pumping wp a tire on his Maxwell car, near Laura, while out in company with his uncle, Louis Zlck, of Walker township. The tap was off the wood handle holding the handle to the pump rod, and pushing down his full weight on the handle the handle slipped or became disengaged in some way and the air valve failing to hold back the air already pumped in, the pump rod 1 flew up and the end entered Doll’s nostril,coming out at the side of the opposite nostril, making a wound that bled so profusely that it was sealed he would bleed to death before he could be got to town and the injury attended to. The accident was a most peculiar one and made quite a serious and painful wound, but it might easily have proven a fatal one had the rod struck him in the eye or forehead, as the force of the compressed air was no doubt sufficient tn have caused the rod to penetrate the skull.