Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1907 — ACCIDENTAL DEATH. [ARTICLE]

ACCIDENTAL DEATH.

Omar Morlan and’family have Buren, of Duluth, Minn., enclosing several newspaper clippings telling of the death Friday night of his two-year-old son. Mr. Van Buren is part Indian and was graduated from the Indian school here years ago and afterwards worked for some time on Mr. Morlan’s farm. He visited here last spring and was called away quite hurriedly by sickness in his family. He is now a street car conductor at Duluth. The baby’s death was accidental. On Thursday, Sept. sth, the little fellow fell against the screen in the third story window of an apartment where they lived and the screen gave way and the little fellow fell to the concrete walk below. His fall was broken by the body striking telephone wires but he.'was unconscious when picked up. He was taken to St. Mary’s hospi tai and regained consciousness, but a hemorrhage was produced from the ears and the skull was fractured at the base. The broken hearted father explained in his letter that he had securely fasten the screens with hooks but his wife’s sister had taken the screen out in order to look down the street and in put ting it back in had failed to fasten it. This makes three children, all boys, that the Vanßurens have lost. A little daughter is the Only child they have left.