Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1899 — A Lady’s Leg Broken. [ARTICLE]

A Lady’s Leg Broken.

A serious accident occured at R. C. Dowler’s residence, in the southeast part of town, Wednesday about noon. Mrs. High, a widow about 65 years, from Williamsport and an old friend of the family, came up to attend the Henkle— Dowler wedding. The way down cellar in Mr. Dowler’s house ip .through a trap door in a closet. Mrs. Dowler bad just came from the cellar and expecting to go down again immediately, left the trap open, and Mrs. High, stepping into the closet to hang up p garment, fell through and clear to the floor below. The fall dislocated the joint of her left knee and also’fractured the head of the tibia, the larger of the two bones below the knee. Dr. Johnson was called and reduced the dislocation and fracture. He reports the accident as one that it will be aix weeks or more before Mrs. High is able to get up again.