Iberville County Louisiana Archives News.....Keating, Matthew - Losses 3 Fingers - 1916 1916
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Source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, September 23, 1916, Page 3 1916

Matthew Keating, aged 16 years, suffered the loss of three fingers on his right 
hand while at work last Saturday on the Cora plantation in Iberville parish. He 
was operating a corn crusher and his hand was mangled when he made an attempt to 
stop the machine. The young man is a son of Frank Keating, formerly of this city, 
and has many friends here who sympathize with him in his mis-fortune.