Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1906 — NOT MANY ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

NOT MANY ACCIDENTS.

For so large a crowd and for so much doing, there were very few accidents here on the Fourth. About the worst one, perhaps, happened to Don Warren, the 13 or 14 year old son of Marsh Warren. He was shooting blank cartridges in a big revolver and a charge failing to explode he again drew back the hammer while holding one hand right over the muzzle, and the weapon being discharged all the wadding was blown into the palm of his hand, mangling it pretty badly, and passing clear through the hand all except the skin on the back. The wound was as thoroughly cleaned out as could be without opening it from the back, and no serious results are apprehended, although such injuries are the kind which frequently are followed by lockjaw or bloodpoisoning.

i Another accident was one which happened to the venerable Mrs Michael Eger. She was out look iug at the parade and in the push fell on the sidewalk and had one of the bones of her left fore-arm broken just above the wrist. The evening before the Fourth Joe Lewis, of Barkley, was a little too slow in letting go of a cannon cracker he was firing and one of his hands was pretty badly torn. These comprise all the known accidents in town except of the reported injuries in the crush at the depot, late at night.