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Show Frightful Accident A frightiul accident occuitu at about i oclocic 'luesuay uitentuun oi ttiia weeK at m Unas Nelson rami, northwest, pi Tremonton, wuicu is now owned by .henry Oyler, ox EaBt Uanand, in which the lii-tle lii-tle 4-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oyler had the terrible misfortune of having her leg . and arm cut off with a mowing machine which was being operated oper-ated by the mother of the child. Owing to labor being scarce and wages up 'to the high mark, Mrs. Oyler volunteered to as- j sist her husband in harvesting the crop, the Oyler family endeavoring en-deavoring to pay for the farm j property which they recently purchased. Mr. Oyler was raking rak-ing the hay while Mrs. Oylei was running the mowing machine. mach-ine. Their little daughter had been riding on the rake with her father and as they neared the house, she was permited to alight and go to the house. However, How-ever, instead of going to the house as her father supposed ' she had done, she went into the alfalfa patch which was be ing mowed by her mother and as the mowing machine camej round in its regular oeurse the child was caught by the entter- V and leg severed. Mrs. Oyler was .horrified and terribly sh ocked by the affair as she thought her child was either at r the house or in the care of its father. The left arm of the ' child was cut off between th wrist and the elbow and was left hanging by a piece of skin. The leg was cut off twice the . first cut severing the limb Jimi , above the ankle and the second, cut taking off a pieco of the leg about three Or four inches, J higher up, and the piece of the ' limb taken off In the second cut. ' could not be found. I. Doctor J. Edward was notified noti-fied of the accident and in company com-pany with Dr. T. W. Innes went direct to the scene where the child in her bleeding and suffering suffer-ing condition was rushed to the Tremonton hospital. Dr. Day dressed the child's leg and sewed sew-ed the arm back In place which required quite a number of stitches. The child spent o restless night, but the next day she was in better condition and as we go to press we were informed in-formed that every hope is en tertained that the arm of the I little girl will be saved which j is indeed a mericale.. The sympathie osf the entire community go out to the Oyler, family in their affliction. |