Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-30
monday A JONAH
Day FOR SEVERAL
Accidents Proved Numerous in
City and Country Monday
Afternoon
MARSHALL ANDERSON HURT
ANDERSON HURT
Thrown From Buggy and sustains
Bad Compound Fracture OF Lett
AnkIe-Mrs. A. j. Weatherson scald-
ed-Little Girl Hurt in Hay Pulley
Furnace Empoye Injured.

Several accidents Monday afternoon
altho none of them was especially ser
ious, all proved painful and neeessl-
tated surgical attention. One to Mar
shall Anderson. a we'll known barber
Of this city. proved the most serious.
Mr.. Anderson sustained bad COM
pound fracture of the left ankle as d
result of being thrown from buggy
after the horse had started to run. IN
company with Postmaster James
Stewart of Quarry, Mr., Anderson haa
started to the ball game in MI. Stew
arts buggy. On the way Mr.. Stewart
drove to the packing house, to buy
box of meat for his general store. On
the way back to Main street, on the
packing house private road, the morse
SHE'D just as the front wheels struck
rut, and Mr.. Stewart was thrown
forward and out of the buggy. lie
held to the lines the wheels passed
over his left ankle and he was dragged
for a distance of between ten and nj
teen feet and lost the reins. Mr.. An
derson tried to reach the dragging hnes
from the buggy, and he fell, allghtlig
with great force on the left heel. Inc
fracture was to the oscalcis, the heei
bone, or the largest bone OF the 1901,
forming the back OF the foot ana
ankle. So severe was the strain that
the skin ruptured two inches in length,
requiring five stitches to close the
wound. Mr.. Stewart was pretty badly
bruised, especially about the right
shoulder and side, and left ankle.
Mr.. Anderson received prompt sur
glcal attention, and after preliminary
dressing was removed to apartments
over the Meeker laundry, which he has
been occupying While his family Is
away for the summer. He had rest
less night, owing to the pain and swell
ing Of the angle and foot, but was con-
siderably easier today The fracture
is an extremely bad one, and 1t VIII
be some time before Mr.. ANDERSON mas
the use of his foot.
Woman Receives Badly ScaIded Arm.
"A.
we'll known farmer living four miles
north of the city in Taylor township,
was badly scalded about the left hand
and arm Monday afternoon, While at
work doing the family washing. Mrs.
Weatherson was removing boller 1ull
of water from the stove, when sne
caught her toe and tripped. The boil
er was partially overturned, and the
scalding water covered the woman's
hand and arm, scalding the arm to the
elbow. The burns were exceedingly
painful, but Mrs. Weatherson was rest
ing easily today.
Babe Hurt in Hay Pulley.
Ruth Osgood, aged 5, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Calvin Osgood, living three
miles southwest of the city, was pain
fully hurt late Monday afternoon by
getting her hands caught in hay
loader pulley. With her baby brother
the little girl was playing near where
the men were loading hay by a patent
loader, operated by mule power. When
unobserved the child got too near the
pulley and got her little hands in the
wheel. The small finger of each hand
was badly lacerated the under surface
being torn. The child was brought in
to the city as fast as a team could be
driven, and was given surgical care.
Furnace Company EmpIoye Injured.
B. l.. Hotchkiss, GIL East Main
street, a roolder in the employ of the
Lennox Furnace Company, was hurt
Monday afternoon by getting his right
arm caught in mold a. which he was
working. The arm was badly bruised
and scraped, and the tendons were
sprained.