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TERRIBLE ACCIDENT j-;-, Gore Traub Seriously Injured While e Hunting With Rifle—Firing Pin jc d i Penetrates Eye ; tcC■5, Gore Traub, eighteen-year-old son t d of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Traub, met i s with a terrible accident while hunting iducks on the Jenkins farm, near this 1*;, city, a little after noon last Friday, in 1 c j company with James Bennett and j | others. The young man is an employe , of the Lacon Woolen Mills, and being j t industrious and energetic, he has been I *-, 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 t e the mill has been closed down. He 1• is had noticed numerous wild ducks inI .c‘ that vicinity and Mr. Guede gave him I permission to shoot them. On Friday t he took his rifle with him when he ** • went to work and just after noon.i started out to get a few ducks, if pos- J:S ■ sible. j3 When he fired the rifle, which was t evidently out of repair, the firing pin iIgun and entered his right eye, just above the pupil. This pin is about lt | two and one-half inches long and.n about as big around as a common lead !shot backward from its place in the1r pencil. Dazed temporarily and hardly'Q*7 i knowing what had happened, the ( [~ \ young man put his hand to his head i ’ and felt the end of the steel pin stick-1 lt;ing out of his eye. He pulled it out• v . . »- and at once notified his companions \ of what had happened. With them he . walked a half mile to the public high- lt;way, where he waited for someone to .led10 come along and bring him to town, iz*_Ray Conaway, driving the Standard i ^ Oil truck, happened along and brought ]i-i— j___u i i________l.
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Lacon Home Journal
Lacon, Illinois, US
Thu, Nov 25, 1920
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