Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1887 — Shot With a Scatter Gun. [ARTICLE]

Shot With a Scatter Gun.

Last Saturday afternoon A. J. Foresha, foreman of the work of putting np the gas well derrick and other machinery, and Jacob Sanders, a resident carpenter who has been assisting in the above work, weqt down the river to do a little practice shooting with the former’s shotgun. Theirplan was the one familiar to all'punters, of one-man throwing an Sid tfn can iu the air and the other shooting at it. They had made a pepper box of.one can, taking turns shooting at it, and then found another can. Sanders threw it up and Foresha fired one barrel, then Sanders threw it again and just qs Foresha was raising the gun to shoot the lmlnmer came down, of itself, and the gun was discharged the charge of number seven shot struck Sanders in the legs and thighs, from a backward and partly sideways direction. The accident accured neat that part of the river called the deep hole, and" Foresha, after a little time secured help and a buggy and got Sandefs over town, where D, Bitters attended to. his injuries. Both legs are pretty thoroughly peppered, from the kuees to the thighs, there being as Dr. Bitters thinks, nearly two dozen shot in each leg. The powderchurge was light and the shot did not penetrate very deeply, although the most of them are in too far to be easily removed, owing mainly to their small size, aud they will be left where they are. The injuries though not serious nor dangerous, will lay Mr. Sanders up for a few days. They were very painful, of course, aud when the accident occurred, Mr. .Sanders at once declared he was killed entirely, and naturally, Mr. Foresha was a pretty badly frightened inan, too. As he expressed ib, hftbself, he was “ scared out of a year’s growth.”