Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1891 — A HORRIBLE DEATH. [ARTICLE]

A HORRIBLE DEATH.

-A Child, Imbedded In the Earth, Killed by a Hog. A shocking tale comes from Kiowa county, Kansas, relative to the death on the12th of Johnny Renner, the six-year-old son of a farmer. The boy and an eight-year-old sister were playing at burying. A hole had been dug, and Johnny sat down in it, and the girl had piled in the earth until it reached the boy’s chin and he was tightly imbedded. At this juncture an old sow and her brood appeared and savagely attacked the girl, who was standing over her brother’s head, and drove her away. The sow then turned on the unprotected head of the boy in the ground, and sunk her teeth in the face and skull several times. By this time the cries of the children had been heard and assistance arrived, but by the time the boy was taken from his position he was dead.