Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1904 — Engineer Badly Injured. [ARTICLE]

Engineer Badly Injured.

A serious, very painful and very peculiar accident happened at the Rensselaer depot last Tuesday morning. The victim was A. N. Jones of Lafayette, engineer of the milk train. He stopped his train at the water tank and then got down from bis engine, and in so doing slipped and fell upon a sharp pointed iron that stands up on the switch lever, to place the light on at night. The piece of iron entered his right leg from the back and at a point about midway between the knee and the thigb, and extended upwards and sideways through the muscles of the ’eg for a distance of Bor 9 inches, He got np from his terribly painful position and was helped into the depot. 80 large and deep a wound bled greatly and there was, in fact, considerable danger that he would bleed to death. Drs. English and Washburn were called however and succeeded in stopping the flow of blood. So great had been the loss of blood howe er, that about ten o’clock he had a spell of heart failure, from the weakness it has caused him, and came near dying. He was revived however, and on the 10:55 train was laken to his home at Lafayette. The injury will lay him up for some time, and be a slow and painful one to recover from, bat unless bloodpoisoning should set in, or heart failure again recur bis chart** W i «every are vsry pod.