New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-27
SMALL BOY VERSUS
WICKED WEAPONS
AND AS USUAL. THE SMALL BOY
GETS THE WORST OF THE
ARGUMENT.
EMPLoYE AT EAGLE PLANT GETS
TANGLED gb IN MOVING
MACHINERY.

Deep mystery surrounds the shooting
that occurred near the city limits last
Saturday morning when one small boy
lost a big toe in the mixup. There
were three boys in the party and nat
urally not one Of the three did the
shooting and the gun must have just
gone off by itself as guns have habit
Of doing when carried by youngsters OF
thirteen and fourteen.
The injured boy is Otto Schleuder, son
of Herman Schleuder of this city. The
other two boys who were along with
the wicked guns were Willie Brust, son
of Fred Brust, and Anthony Wiesner,
Jr., son of Tony Wiesner. The latter
says that he was some two blocks from
the spot when the gun went off and that
he ran to see what was the matter.
The Brust boy says that one Of the
guns Of the party was lying on the
ground and that the injured boy had a
gun in his hand, and that after the
accident occurred an examination showed
both guns to have empty shells and it
could not be said which gun did the
damage. The Schleuder boy thinks
the Brust boy was responsible for the
discharge of the gun, and there you are.
It would look as tho there is no fixing
the blame definitely.
The accident happened somewhere
along the Nicollet Road, or in the woods
near Heymann's Creek. A man passing
was called upon for assistance in getting
the boy to town and he was taken to the
Loretto Hospital where the big toe on
the right foot was amputated. He
seems to be. getting along as well as
could be expected.
Too much familiarity with a moving
belt and shaft, or probably not enough
familiarity with the ways Of such pieces
of moving machinery, resulted in a
severe accident last Friday and Ed.
Ristau, an employee Of the Eagle Roller
Mill Company was the victim. The
young man is suffering from the crushing
of his arm 50 that all three Of the large
bones were broken or crushed and the
flesh. very badly crushed and torn.
Ristau has been employed at the
mill plant for the past five months. His
regular duties are those Of a sweeper
and when descending to the second
floor shortly before II o'clock Friday
morning he noticed that a belt was
loose and had slipped from a pulley
and was Tapping about the shaft. That
did not look right to him and he at
tempted to remedy matters by trying
to put the belt back over the pulley.
He was thoughtful enough of the danger
to brace himself by selling sprinkler
pipe with his right hand while he worked
with the belt with his left hand. Had
he not done this there is little doubt
that he would have lost his life.' As
it was, his left arm was swiftly drawn
between the belt and the pulley and
crushed in twinkling. The belt broke
from the strain upon it when the arm
was caught.
No one happened to be on the spot
but John Haas, a mill wright who was
passing heard the injured mans call fol
help and went to his assistance. The
victim was conscious when released from
his position and in fact retained con.
seriousness until put under anaesthetics
at the Union Hospital for the necessary
dressing of the wounds. It was at first
reported that the arm had been tori
off and later that he could not expect
to save the member, but it looks now a
tho he will not lose it, and may even BIZ
able to use it quite we'll when it heals
Ristau is 10 years old and lives at home