Salt Lake Times | 1890-06-14 | Page 1 | Blinded by a Flobert Ball

BUNUI5D 11 Y A FI.uBEUT HALT., Distressing Accident In u IiHytou Drug (Store. Dayton, O., Juiie 14.-"I did not know that it was loaded," was the exclamation ex-clamation of Claude Hoover, a fourleeii-yeiii'-old boy, in a drug store this afternoon, after-noon, when a Flobcrt riilo which he was carelessly handling was discharged and tho bullet entered the left eye of F. C. Ciok, a drug clerk and Hoover's companion. Cook fell lo the floor with blood streaming from tho eye. Hooven turned ashy palu and fell in a faint. Tho ball struck the inner corner of the eye and ranged dow nward, imbedding itself at some part back of tho nose. Cook will probably lose the sight of tho eye. Mr. John W. Stoddard, a prominent manufacturer of this city, while returning return-ing with a' tally-ho party from Bell-brook, Bell-brook, Green county, last night, was accidently thrown from the vchiclo near Beavertown, south of this city, and severely injured. Iu his fall ho struck on his head and was knocked senseless, His injuries arc not regarded dau-gctous. dau-gctous. ... . '