Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1878 — Accident to Fred. Van Patton. [ARTICLE]

Accident to Fred. Van Patton.

The following account of a terrible accident tq Mr. Frederick Van l’a|tou, of Kankakee township, is taken from the Lafayette Vouritr: Fredrick Vat> Patton, an old friend of George Ten Eyok’a. and well-known to tho early navigators on the raging canal at Lafayette, met with a frightful accident near San pierre the other day. Ho was bending over a sickle-bar in a mowing machine, from which the sickly had been removed, when the horses started suddenly and the projectini; V-shaped guards caught hin below tho aodotyicn, penetrating the inside muscles of tbe center of tho thigh, laying open a ghastly wound nearly ten inches long. Anothet' point penetrated tho scrotum, und in this condition he was drugged about four hundred feet nnd over a tough pole bridge. Fortunately tho horses stop|>sd. Mr, Van Patton was alone, but managed to extricate himself, tied the horses, and walked a quarter of a mile up hi.l to his houge. Dr Glosebrook. of San Pierre, was sent for. , Borne idea of the nature of his wounds may be gathered from the fuel that it required twenty stitches from a halt to a full inch apart to close them, lie is doing well, and there is indication of a speedy recovery. He is about sixty years of ngc. Geo. Ten Eyck is going to see him tomorrow.