A benefit fund has been established for 14-year-old Robert "Buddy" Hawks.

Hawks of Menoken required two surgeries when a concrete wall collapsed on him June 18, crushing his lower abdomen and hip.

Hawks is in Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn. He may be able to return home sometime in the next week.

A benefit fund for Hawks has been established at the BNC National Bank at 322 E. Main Ave.

A family member of Hawks said the money would help with future surgeries, travel to medical facilities, physical therapy and adapting Hawks' home to be accessible to the wheelchair he will be bound to, until he is able to walk.

Hawks was one of two people injured when a group of people were attempting to remove a lean-to structure from a garage.

The east wall of the garage collapsed on Hawks and his cousin, 29-year-old Christina Geloff, shortly after 5:30 p.m.

The group of people pulled the two from the wreckage before a Bismarck-Mandan Metro Ambulance responded to the farm house property north of Interstate 94, along Highway 14. Neither were critically wounded.

The old garage was not in good shape to begin with. Its remaining walls are cracked and decaying.

(Reach reporter Chris Rosacker at 250-8254 or chris.rosacker@;bismarcktribune.com.)