Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1909 — W. A. Davenport Suffers Badly Broken Hand. [ARTICLE]

W. A. Davenport Suffers Badly Broken Hand.

W. A. Danvenport, assistant to W. H. Beam, the Monon agent, suffered a broken hand in an odd manner this Thursday morning.' The truck used at the depot for loading express was filled with cans of cream, and as the milk train pulled in Davenport went to pull the truck up to the express car door. It was heavy and some one volunteered a shove from behind. The truck was shoved forward with considerable force and Davenport’s left hand was caught between the truck handle and the car with such force as to break larger bone in the hand in two places and considerably mash the flesh on the other parts of the hand. The injury was given immediate surgical attention but will be some time in healing.