Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1900 — A Very Peculiar Accident. [ARTICLE]

A Very Peculiar Accident.

A very peculiar and what was feared to be a very dangerous accident, happened last Friday morning, on the Poole place, some miles east of town. Some stonemasons are doing some work there, and that morning one of them struck a stone with his hammer a pretty hard blow, and a very small piece of the stone flew off and struck another workman named Theodore Beazy, in the stomach, a short distance below the breast bone. It cut through the clothing and made a wound which bled greatly, and which was 'thought to have penetrated the j abdominal cavity. He was brought hurriedly to town and the Drs. Washburn examined and dressed the wound, but it was found that the stone had not penetrated the abdominal waller and that therefore no serious in- ‘ jury had been inflicted.