Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1908 — Andrew Kahler Sustains Broken Leg. [ARTICLE]

Andrew Kahler Sustains Broken Leg.

While administering medicine to a sick horse at Coiling’ hitch barn, Sunday morning at about 6 o’clock* Audrey. Kahler, a substantial farmer living south of town, suffered the fracture of his left leg. He had just given the horse some medicine? and with the halter stray he was urging the horse which was lying down, to get on its feet. The horse struggled and succeeded in raising itself on its tront feet, and as Mr. Kahler, who was standing at the horse’s side undertook to help it up. It toppled over and pinned him to the floor. He urged the horse to get up, patting and rubbing its head, bpt it was some time before he c.nld free himself. He tried to walk but could not and so dragged himself up from the stall floor to the street floor, and on out in front where he was found by passersby. Lute Hemphill, Joe Halligan and Will Wood worth carried the injured man to a doctor’s office, where he was given surgical attention. The leg was found to be broken in two places, both bones being fractured just above the ankle and one bone broken about three inches above the other break. He was later re .moved to his home, and is getting along as well as conld be expected.