| Show WARNING FOR BUYS Young Raymond Raddon is f Seriously Injured EXPLOSION NEAR HIS FACE While He was Playing With a Toy Cannon it Burst in the Boys Hands Burning His Pace and Seriously I Seri-ously Injuring One of His Eyes the Sight of Which it was First Thought Might be LostDr > Beer the Attending Physician Thinks it May be Saved Raymond Raddon a lad of 10years was seriously hurt through the explosion explo-sion of a toy cannon with which he was playingabout 2 oclock yesterday afternoon The child a son qf Thomas n Raddon whose homo is at 22C Seventh street was celebrating the near approach of the glorious Fourth and getting in practice for that occasion occa-sion when the accident occurred Ac a result he may lose the sight of his left eyve Besides the left side of his face and forehead is badly soared The explosion also sot fire to the childs hat and much of his hair was singed off before be-fore he cast the biasing headgear into the road At the time the toy cannon exploded Raymond was holding It in his hand and not far from his face The fuse when Ignited paused the explosion before the child thought to lay the dangerous dan-gerous Instrument down The blast came with such force that the boy was thrown prostrate and he lay crying wheie he fell until the driver of a X CM I delivery wagon arrived n few moments later The dclivcryman and a brother of the injured lad lifted him Into the wagon and drove directly 10 the office of Dr Beer The childs left eye was found to be so badly swollen that the doctor could not determine de-termine whether or not the eyeball was injured but he Is of the opinion that It is not All possible was done to relieve the young sufferers pain and he was taken to his home by the dellveryman His Celebration Cut Short An enthusiast who vas evidently getting himself in training for Independence Inde-pendence day got himself Into trouble list cverlng The enthusiast In Question Ques-tion is W D Smith who long since left his boyhood days behind and his fun with a mammoth llrccracker yesterday yes-terday put him to the necessity of putting put-ting up 10 bail In order to keep from going behind the bars at the city Jail It seems that W D carried his fun too far He placed a largo cracker under the chair of Shoemaker Carlson who mends footwear at 340 South Stale street The explosion caused the shoemaker shoe-maker a great shock and he complained com-plained to Officer Chase Smith was captured and marched forthwith to the station where he was booked on the charge of shooting firecrackers |
