Here’s a newspaper clipping about Elmer Wokasch:
HAND CAUGHT IN CORNHUSKER
Employee in Fairmont Canning Company Badly Injured—Hand Remains in Machine Until Apparatus Is Taken Apart.
Fairmont, Aug 20 —Elmer Wokasch Fairmont canning company employee, suffered a badly crushed left thumb and torn left hand late Tuesday at plant No 2 when the hand was caught m a corn husking machine.
Officials feared Wokasch’s hand had been torn off in the gears of the machine and advised that it not be removed until doctors arrived.
Medical men supervised work of taking the husker apart while Wokasch gritted his teeth but withstood the intense pain. He was taken to the clinic weak from shock and released this morning Doctors thought he would regain full use of the hand in about two weeks.