From the Lawrence Daily World for July 17, 1910:

“In a tug of war with a street car the odds are greatly in favor of the car, as W. B. Sweanger discovered this morning. In any event his laundry wagon which collided with a passing car this morning, was distributed over the street for a quarter of a block. Sweanger managed to leap from the delivery wagon before it was completely overturned, and escaped with a few bruises and a skinned arm, one of the horses was badly hurt and one side of the wagon was splintered into kindling…. A little Franklin County girl who is going blind from the effects of a gunshot, was at the Santa Fe depot this morning, on the way to Kansas City. The trip is made in the forlorn hope of preserving her eye sight. Two weeks ago a shot gun, supposedly unloaded, exploded in the hands of a brother of the little girl, and the charge of No. 4 shot entered her face and chest. Many of the shot penetrated deeply and have not been extracted, several of them entered the eye sockets, and her sight is failing.”