Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1907 — Close Call for “Billy” Eiglesbach. [ARTICLE]

Close Call for “Billy” Eiglesbach.

Will Eiglesbach, 10 years of age and son of J. J. Eiglesbach, had a, close call Sunday morning. He was watching the workmen clean np the wreck aud was struck over the left eye by a tap that one of the workmen knocked off the end of a holt to ielease a steel rail. The tap was about an inch aud a half across and contained the broken .-J *. end of the bolt and weighed almost half a pound. He would have fallen but for the support of men standing near him. The tap only missed his temple an inch but struck on the heavy frontal skull bone and aside from causing a bad wound that bled profusely and re quired two stitches to close, no injury resulted. Today his eye is swollen shut aud it will be some time before the soreneis disappears.