Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1902 — Will Bowman Terribly Injured. [ARTICLE]

Will Bowman Terribly Injured.

Will Bowman, a young man born and raised in the vicinity of Rensselaer, met with a terrible aocideut last Friday, Deo. sth at Pueblo, Colorado, to which state he went for the benefit of his health quite amumber of years ago. He was working in the Minnequa Steel Works, at Pueblo, and doing some painting on the traoks of a traveling electric orane, and 60 feet above the ground. While so engaged some one started the crane and it ran down on Will and a companion named J. M. Smith. Smith was out in two and killed instantly. Will had five ribs broken, both jaws broken, bad cuts on his throat and scalp and his body badly out aud bruised. Bad as his injuries are, he is doing better than could be expected and ‘ has a fighting chances for his life. He is in the Bteel company's hospital, at Pueblo.

His mother, Mrs. Mattie E. Henkle and his younger brother Sanford lived, with Will, at Bessemer, a suburb of Pueblo aud Sanford is employed iu the same works. Will is probably about 34 years old and unmarried. His widowed mother, who was a Saylor has |iad a life of the most grievious afflictions. Of her nine children seven, three sons and four daughters, died, one after the other, after they reached adult age, or nearly so, of consumption; and the two surviving sons only escaped a like fate by going to the more favorable olimate of Colorado. Sad indeed will it be if she loses one of these surviving sous now by this aocident.