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I TERRIBLE ACCIDENTI --. Gore Traub Seriously Injured While e Hunting With Rifle—Firing Pin j c d: Penetrates Eye j tc(13, Gore Traub, eighteen-year-old son t d of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Traub, met i s with a terrible accident while hunting i- ducks on the Jenkins farm, near this I*r, city, a little after noon last Friday, in lt;j company with James Bennett and j | others. The young man is an employe , of the Lacon Woolen Mills, and being j , industrious and energetic, he has been ;*-1 cutting coal mine props on the Jenkins s e farm, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Emil t :e Guede, on the days of each week when 1 e the mill has been closed down. HeIS had noticed numerous wild ducks inc that vicinity and Mr. Guede gave him permission to shoot them. On Friday he took his rifle with him when he * '• went to work and just after noon! started out to get a few ducks, if pos-5 . sible. ILS When he fired the rifle, which was ; evidently out of repair, the firing pin ! shot backward from its place in the !' gun and entered his right eye, just above the pupil. This pin is about lt j two and one-half inches long and ; n about as big around as a common lead | r pencil. Dazed temporarily and hardly' i knowing what had happened, the N young man put his hand to his head :1’ and felt the end of the steel pin stick-' ■l ing out of his eye. He pulled it out - and at once notified his companions of what had happened. With them he walked a half mile to the public highway, where he waited for someone to come along and bring him to town. e Ray Conaw^ay, driving the Standard Oil truck, happened along and broughttrteIdle^ j i_____ i i________
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Lacon Home Journal
Lacon, Illinois, US
Thu, Nov 25, 1920
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