Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1903 — The Most Dangerous Amusement. [ARTICLE]

The Most Dangerous Amusement.

Wednesday’s Indianapolis News added three more to its list of this season’s hunting accidents, in Indiana, and on Thursday two more, raising the total to 53, reported to that one paper, and whioh no doubt do not inolude all of them, by any means. In one of Wed-: need ay’s accidents a 15 year old boy was shot in the baok and fatally wounded. In one of the others a man was shot in the! shoulder and was in a critical oon- 1 dition; and the third case was a shot in the ankle, probably leaving the viotim permanently orippled. In Thursday’s accidents one boy lost an arm at the elbow and another was shot in tbe side and shoulder and badly though not fatally wounded. These faots illustrate the truth of what we previously remarked, that more deaths and permanent maimings result from hunting every year in Indiana alone, than in the whole oountry from foot ball. And, like the foot ball accidents, the viotims are usually boys and young men.