Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1907 — MRS. A. THOMPSON RECEIVES BAD FALL [ARTICLE]

MRS. A. THOMPSON RECEIVES BAD FALL

Mrs. Mary E. Thompson, widow of Alfred Thompson, and a woman of quite advanced age, met with a very severe accident late Wednesday night, at the Thompson home on River street She got np about 11 o’clock and went down into the kitchen after a drink, and in starting to go back she became turned around and walked into the door of the cellar-way, which happened to be standing open. She seems to have fallen the fall length of the stairs, landing on the cement floor below. No one else in the house was aware of her going to the kitchen, and it was some time, perhaps 15 minutes or more, before her daughter, Mrs. Ross, heard her groans and finally located her where she was still lying on the cellar floor. Physicians were called and found that both arms were broken. In the right arm both nlnaand radios are broken at a point somewhat nearer the wrirt than the e bow. In the left am one of these two bones is broken, quite near the wrist. She also received a severe cut and bruise oa the forehead, over the left eye. There was quite a deep cut in the scalp and also an tho not a fracture, of the skull. She is still suffering greatly from the shock, bnt otherwise is doing as well as could reasonably be expected, nnder the circumstances.