Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1907 — A Badly Burned Arm. [ARTICLE]

A Badly Burned Arm.

Bert Newby, a brief mention ,of whose burned arm was made in this paper about three weeks ago, was taken by his brother, Elmer Newby, to the latter’s home, near Boachdale, this Friday morning. Newby lived with a man and his wife named Earl Gray, in a store room at Lewiston, and after building np a hot fire he layed down bn a lounge to rest and was siezed with an epileptic fit, daring the progress of which he fell from the lonnge and his left arm rested against the almost redhot stove. He lay in that condition for quite awhile, and when discovered his arm was burned almost crisp, the fingers being cooked io the bone and the mnscles of the forearm exposed. ■ =

The attending physician had the Gray family move to town in order that he could give Newby the attention he needed and it now seems that he will only lose his index and little finger, altho the healing progress is yet scarcely began and Skin grafting will probably be necessary takeover the mnscles of the arm. Newby’s brother did not learn of his accident until Thursday and he hastened here to get him and take him to his own home near Boachdale. Elmer Newby has a farm there and feels that he is better care for his brother than is the Gray familyT It is said to have been the first time Newby had bad an epileptic attack for three years.