Show FIREMANS EYE NEARLY PUT OUT BY AN EXPLOSION while prep preparing ariar hit his engine for ita its run about 2 yesterday morning says the grand junction news nes of monday H H dauphinee fireman of passenger engine no GO 66 ori on tho the rio grande western was filling anew a new lubricator on tho the locomotive when the glass guage which must have been defective exploded under the team steam pressure and the hying flying glass struck Daup dauphinee hince ip and around his right eye causing tempo temporary blindness the explosion of the lubricator bri cator gauge is not an uncommon occurrence and knowing this jau turned his head quickly as its he h turned on the steam in the new glass the flying gla glas struck him on the sido side of mhd lead cutting sev eral cral deep gashes around both eyes and a crescent shaped wound almost encircling the right eye and penetrating to the bone white the wounds may not prove serious it was wa 1 a very harrow escape from the loss of both eyes lie ile will have to layoff lay off several weeks aa a result of the accident |