Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1909 — Earl Clouse Kicked by Mule oh Hill Farm. [ARTICLE]

Earl Clouse Kicked by Mule oh Hill Farm.

Bari Clouse, son of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Clouse, was kicked by a mule at about 6 o’clock this Monday moaning and at 2 o'clock this afternoon he was still unconscious. He was working on the Hill farm for a man named Brooks, and when the kicking occurred he was harnessing up his team in the stable preparatory to beginning his * day’s work. The animal that kicked him did not kit him'with'lhe"hbbf, but seems to have struck him with the leg above the hoof. There is no abrasion of the skin blit his forehead is bruised and he suffered concussion of the' brain that rendered him unconscious. When found by other farm hands he was hanging with his heal in the mangbr and his back bent over it, with his feet on the stall side, and apparently the mule had knocked him into that position. A doctor was summoned and Clouse was brought from the Hill farm to towri. He is not thought to be seriously Injured unless paralysis should result, hi which case trephining of the skull will be necessary to restore him to health.