Thomas Banks - Cuts Foot With Axe 1900

BANKS, SEARLE, LAMPE

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 3/27/2017 at 22:27:16

The Clinton Mirror
W. D. Eaton, Editor
Clinton, Iowa, January 27, 1900

Dr. C. H. Searle was summoned to Griswold Island, just south of town, Thursday afternoon, to attend to a young man named Thomas Banks, who had severely cut his right foot with an axe. Banks was working in Barney Lampe’s crew of wood choppers, and while cutting a small stick of wood, the axe caught him of the inside of the right foot, laying it open to the bone and cutting a gash that reached from the bottom of the foot to a point above the instep. It was necessary to take ten stitches to bring the wound together again, and it will lay the young man up for some time. – Sabula Gazette.