Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1902 — A Bad Accident. [ARTICLE]

A Bad Accident.

News has been received here of a lamentable accident that happened to Will Bowman, formerly of Rensselaer, at Puebla, 001., last Friday. Bowman and a companion were painting the tracks of a traveling crane at a steel works at Puebla. While working on the tracks sixty fe.et in the air some one started the crane and without warning it was upon them. Bowman’s companion, a man by the name of Smith, was killed instantly by being run over and cut in two. Bowman was more fortunate and his life will probably be saved. He had both jaws and five ribs broken and his head badly cut and bruised.