Bio: Reel, Wilbert (Tractor accident - 1933)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson

Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Reel, Callahan

---Source: Marshfield News-Herald (26 Jul 1933)

Reel, Wilbert

COLBY, July 26 -- Wilbert, 15 months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Reed, farmers living 4 1/2 mile southwest of here, suffered a fractured left arm early Monday as his father backed a tractor from a shed at the Reel Farm.

Just how the child was injured is not known, but it is believed that his arm may have been caught in the spokes of the tractor wheel. It was fractured above the elbow. Reel was not aware of the child's presence until he had driven the tractor out of the building.

The child was taken to the office of Dr. H.T. Callahan, at Spencer, where the fracture was set, and the infant was taken to its home again. The accident occurred at about 10 a.m. Monday.