The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, May 31, 1906 The Leader mentioned a couple of weeks since an accident which befell CHARLES GITTINGER, nephew of G.J. and H.W. GITTINGER, of this city, while at work on the railroad at Melrose, in which he was struck in the eye with a piece of steel. He has been in Chariton since, taking treatment in the hopes of saving it, but on Sunday the doctors decided that it would have to be removed or the other eye would become affected. He is now feeling well and is encouraged that his vision will not be entirely lost. After the eye was removed it was examined and a sliver of steel three-eighths of an inch in length was found in the posterior. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert October 16, 2004 [email protected]