A Close Call on River Road
A local child suffers a serious eye injury during a frantic day on the farm.
While Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Grundell were engaged in picking apples, their son was engaged in throwing bottles at a rock and in so doing met with a serious accident, for a piece of glass pierced his left eye, cutting it badly, so that the consulting physician advised an immediate trip to a specialist at Walla Walla and the mother with him left on the first train. The boy will perhaps retain his sight, although it is not positively known as yet. The father, two brothers and a brother of the wife motored to the Garden City Sunday for a visit with the little fellow and his mother.
“a piece of glass pierced his left eye, cutting it badly”
This accounts for the daily hazards of rural life in the early 20th century. While the technology of medicine has advanced, the story highlights the isolation of families during harvest season—a reality still faced by agricultural communities in the Tri-Cities region.
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