Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1920 — MEETS A PECULIAR ACCIDENT [ARTICLE]

MEETS A PECULIAR ACCIDENT

R. J. Yeoman Suffers Broken Arm Last Friday Afternoon. While playing the part of the “innocent bystander,” R. J. Yeoman of Newton township met with a peculiar accident last Friday afternoon at his home. They were filling a silo and the belt from the engine being a little loose and flapping about somewhat, Mr. Yeoman’s brother stuck a small steel wrecking bar, such as used by carpenters in wrecking buildings, in the ground at the side, of the belt to steady it and make it .run more smoothly. There was a little space between the ends of the belt where it was laced together, the lacing having be come stretched somewhat," and it is supposed that this gap caught the bar and threw it with great force to where Mr. Yeoman was standing, some 10 or 15 feet away, the hook on the bar catching him in the lsft arm a few inches below she elbow and making an ugly gash and fracturing one of the 'bones of the arm.

A-doctor was summoned and the wound was dressed, it being thought at the time that no bones were broken, but Saturday he came to town and an X-ray examination w"as made of she injury and it \bas found that one of the bones was fractured. As a result of the injury Robert will ha-ve to carry ,his arm in a sling for several weeks, but he is fortunate in that it is no worse, for had the bar struck him in a vital part he would no doubt have been instantly killed. . '