Obituary:  Simon RANDALL, 22 July 1875, Fall Creek, Eau Claire Co., WI

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Accidently Shot

Mr. Simon Randall, of Fall Creek, met with a very serious accident last
Tuesday (20 July 1875), by having the contents of a rifle discharged into 
his thigh.  The rifle was standing between the two uprights forming the 
support for the chimney, when a young child groped to it, and pulled it down 
on himself.  Mr. Randall went up to extricate the child, and taking hold of
rifle barrel pulled it towards him, when the hammer, it is supposed, caught
against the corner of one of the posts between which the rifle previously
leaned, discharging the contents into his thigh.  The charge entered on the
outside a little above the knee joint, and striking and shatering the bone,
glanced and passed out a few inches below the hip.  The bone is said to 
have been broken in four pieces at least, perhaps more, and so displaced 
that the limb has contracted considerably.  Dr. Galloway, who was called, 
found the patient so nervous and sensitive that it was impossible to set the
bone, or even probe the wound; and his age (being nearly 60 years old), and 
state of health, together with his previous habits of life, made it too 
unsafe to use chloroform.  For these reasons, amputation is probably out of
the question; and for the same reasons, his recovery may be considered very
doubtful.

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Later -- Mr. Randall died last Thursday (22 July 1875) afternoon.  He is 
buried at Eau Claire on Saturday.

A special train will leave Eau Claire, eastward on Saturday evening.  So, 
those attending Simon Randall's funeral can return home.

--Taken from the Augusta Eagle, Saturday, 24 July 1875.