CRUSHED UNDER WAGON LOADED WITH CORN
Elbert Hunt Sustains Serious Injuries by Falling Under Moving Wagon
Heavily Loaded
Elbert Hunt, the 16-year old son of L. T. Hunt of Farmington,
fell under a moving wagon heavily loaded on Monday afternoon and sustained
serious internal injuries by one of the wheels passing over his abdomen.
He and Archie Jarrell, who is working for Mr. Hunt, were returning
from Sprott with a load of about forty bushels of corn.
When near Mrs. Beard’s residence a part of the harness broke and
Elbert got off and mended it. When
he attempted to get on the wagon again the team started up and he slipped
off the double-tree and fell under the front wheel, which passed over one
of his feet. In some way he
whirled around and before the wagon was brought to a standstill he had
gotten caught again by the same wheel, it resting directly on his abdomen
when it stopped turning. Young
Jarrell saw immediately what had happened and moved the horses up until
the wheel had passed off the unfortunate lad.
Although desperately injured and suffering untold agony young Hunt
was able to climb back onto the wagon and ride on to town, but was almost
dead when he reached home.
His condition was considered so serious that he was taken to
Centenary Hospital in St. Louis Wednesday.
He was accompanied by his father and brother, E. V. Hunt, and Dr.
Braning. The later told us
that he thought several ribs of the unfortunate lad were fractured, the
right kidney injured and he feared other internal injuries.
Dr. Braning telephoned from St. Louis to the family that
peritonitis had developed, but that the young man’s injuries were not
found to be as serious as was thought when he left for the city and that
an operation was not thought necessary.
