Show STAHLE WICKER BADLY INJURED accidentally shot in the right thih thigh by his companion while hunting in canyon yesterday stable wicker of bountiful who is about fifteen years old met with a very serious accident yesterday jest Test erday while he and israel smedley were up holbrook can you yon hunting they were up a ravine on the south side of the canyon less than a quarter of a mile from t the bottom of the canyon and had bad just shot a bird in a tree and were walking n around to shoot another when a loose limb tripped is partner causin causing him bim to fall fail and the gun to discharge tile the contents of the gun entered his bis right leg Z at the back nearly m midway id way between the hip and the t knee the muzzle of the guu gun being in about twelve feet away the unfortunate boys companion seemed to comprehend the seriousness of the accident abut but did not lose his head but set to work and removed th the e cloth ing from around the wound tied a piece of cloth which he had torn from overalls so tight t around his leg that it practically stopped the bleeding and washed the wound with pure water to t prevent infection if possible when this had been done he made a bed of leaves for him to r lie upon and then looked at his watch and estimated it 4 hour and a hall half to ge get t to the nearest houses in the settlement to make known what had fiad happened and to phone a doctor 7 he figured that he was only about eighteen minutes making the three miles or over to t mouth month of the canyon and only an hour and twenty five minutes making the round trip when he reached josephine Fis fishers heis he be phoned for a doctor but all of the local doctors were wera i iway away so he succeeded in getting dr tanner from farmington who met the patient at the mouth 0 P F of the canyon as he was being brou brought bt home As he passed their homes home to 11 come down to mrs fishers he had told mr ephraim m tolman and mrs T J harrison of what y had occurred so they immedi ft abely started up the canyon but mr smedley overtook them be fore they had reached the pa y tient it was very dark by the 4 time they got to where he was A stretcher was wab made out of coats by running some sticks p through b the sleeves and the in aured boy was carried down the canyon some of the way the i parties had to walk down the L reek as the wa wagon ou road which y has not been used for nearly a 4 quarter of a century has since grown up with brush ana and is washed out in places so that it is almost impossible to got get up or iown down the canyon in the day time when one can see they arrived at the home of his parents mr and mrs D R i wicker about 10 that k night dr howells realizing the Ir seriousness of the case and what would probably result from any lelay delay had made all preparation pre ion for an operation if necessary 7 a when he arrived the doctors removed shot and wadding and A cleaned out and drass dressed ed the wound the best they could they had expected to take him to the i f hospital but they can considered his condition would nt not admit of any delay there was quite a number of others beside the above named who went up the canyon a little later an and d assisted in briggi bringing ng mr Wicker down when heard from today he seemed to be 0 getting ettin alono along fairly well wall of that is built wholly of cement miss cora layton and delbert bone are attending school in salt lake morris ellison was confined to his home all of last week and part of this week with what appeared to be blood poisoning but w waa ia nine much h better at last accounts E C dibble re last week from burley idaho where he be had bad been on business Us iness |