Bio: Mertens, Clarence (Attacked by Bull – Aug 1974)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Mertens, Tomaschack

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 15 Aug 1974

Clarence Mertens returned home from Victory Memorial Hospital at Stanley last Wednesday after having been confined since the previous Saturday, due to an accident in his barn, at about 6 a.m., when a bull attacked him.

Injuries to his chest were extensive, and he had some broken bones in the upper arm and shoulder. What really saved him was his quick thinking to grab a ring in the bull's nose after it had gouged him in the chest a number of time, and the help of his son-in-law, Jerry Tomaschack, who came to his rescue after hearing the commotion. The bull was a 1 1/2 year old weight about 1,200 pounds and had been kind of ugly.

The bull was sent to market on Monday.