Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1920 — VAN NORMAN STILL IN STUPOR [ARTICLE]

VAN NORMAN STILL IN STUPOR

As Result of Kick From Horse Early Wedneeday Morning. Van Norman, who resides on the Kershner farm in Barkley township, was kicked by a horse Wednesday morning and is now at the county hospital in a very critical condition from the effects thereof. It seems that Mr. Norman had gotten up about 5 o’clock Tuesday morning, built the kitchen fire and went on out to the barn to care for the stock. Mrs. Norman did not get up until some little time later, having been up considerably during the night with the children, who were not very well, and on finding the fire out and her husband nowhere about she went to the barp and found him lying behind the horses, unconscious. After pulling him away from near the horses she summoned help and a doctor. It was found he had been struck by the animal just over the left ear, near the base of the brain. The flesh was badly bruised but the skin was not cut or broken. He was brought to the county hospital, where he still lies in an unconscious condition, and it Is feared that he will never recover.