A Serious Accident 

Thursday of last week a very serious accident happened near Hollow Rock.  While Morris WIMBERLY was trying to split a block of wood his ax flew off the handle striking a young man named ROWE on the forehead and inflicting a wound that several stitches were required to close.  A physician was called at once, the wound dressed and at last accounts young ROWE was doing as well as could be expected.

Source: Carroll County Democrat, 12 Feb 1897, pg. 1