Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1906 — Ran Away With the Binder. [ARTICLE]

Ran Away With the Binder.

8. S. Shedd, of about two miles east of town, met with a severe accident, Monday afternoon. He was starting up his binder in his oats crop, and using a spirited young horse which was not used to that kind ot vehicles, and a runaway resulted. Mr. Shedd was thrown off at the first start, and with such violence that both bones of his left arm were broken square off, just above the wrist It is a bad and painful break and will be long in healing. The horses ran about a quarter of a mile and ran the binder into a big fence post, which was pulled out “by the roots,” so to speak. The binder caught on some fence wires and the horses were thrown into the wire fence. They were not hurt much, however, nor was the binder broken up near so badly as might have been expected, and a few hours’ sojourn at Lute Hemphill’s broken wagon and implement hospital put it in running order again.