PROVO MAN IS III-, , JURED I BLAST f Erastua Koffard Has Narrow Escspa When 8hot Fails to Explode at the Proper Tims and Later Unexpectedly Unexpected-ly Goea Off, Injuring Koffard. Brastus Koffard on Saturday l8 was severely Injured at the IMajO Queen mine in Nevada. According toy the information received,. Mr. Koffard was working at the mine a short time with the expectation of becoming interested in-terested by . the. purchase of some of the stock. The miner. who waa working work-ing with him, running out of powder, went to a store about two miles from the mine, where It was supposed they could get powder, but returned with the information that they had none, so he left for the city, telling Mr. Koffard Koff-ard to work on the surface until he returned. Upon his not returning the next day Mr. Kofford visited the store where he found there was plenty of powder, so he obtained some. Upon returning he placed two shota, but in firing same one of the shots hung fire, and In striving to light this Mr. Koffard, Koff-ard, who is not a mining man, remained remain-ed until the first shot went off, knocking knock-ing him down and badly injuring him. He crawled from the tunnel to the shack and dressed his woundr. aa weil as possible, but being unable to remove re-move several small rock which had entered his arm the next day walked over to a ranch one mile away, where after receiving some attention to his wounds he was brought to the hospital here. Although hia injuries are not serious, mining men say it is a wond- . " er that he was not blown to pieces, i - i