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Show SSItE FOURTH S IIS VICTIIS T feed Cannon Crackers to aud Injure Many Persons. I SOUGH'S HAND IS BADLY LACERATED merica Suffers Several 5 by Carelessness With bWic Fireworks. fineries in Salt Lake Thurs-izti Thurs-izti the stored and pent-up b of fifty-two long -weeks, e price in dollars, cents, fin-t fin-t and lives as chcerfullj- as ijjnd in the other nine-Ittds. nine-Ittds. The cannon cracker had f None of the modern para-trfiicb para-trfiicb has perfected the glo'r-into glo'r-into explosive, volcanic iiion, was absent. Jeiica AIeo Made Sacrifice. Jra no records extant io the it John Hancock, .back in that It Year 1776, when he stepped lis" vibrant hush of a crowded Ufiiied his name with a de-lourish de-lourish to a certain porten-nnent, porten-nnent, gave an exultant though he would have been ifor doing so . As he didn't, iitions ever since have been limake up for him by doing 'tag. it was "no slouch' when it Webrating Thursday. It cost ii toes and other portions of titomy. exacted as toll, but khrated, The prime factor in jicd bandages was the giant t. Sometimes it waited until fifj; sometimes it didn't, ftn 't usually there was some-kg some-kg with the holder, for the fier means business. It has !p1ace of the Roman candle. ttcL the flower ' pot and the I to a great extent. All these Blights, really, but then they enough noise. And that fs Bf- America wanted in Salt inday, along with his wounds idiges. though the accidents pproached a grave na-few, na-few, in comparison to some ears. AIgo there were a few fllowing are some of the ac-cd ac-cd fires: f. F. Kepugh Injured. Ewagh, 421 South West Tem-S, Tem-S, z machinist, was one of the trely punished' in the Fourth of (brahons Thursday. A steel at Mr. Keough made exploded nzs loading it and the little ithe left hand was idown off. IjWas badly lacerated. Mgh, some time ago, mado the oich was about six inches steel. Wednesday afternoon ime time firing it and then jnday morning. About 1 :30 afternoon he celebrated again. E the cannon it became nec-jr nec-jr him to tamp the powder jjfl a punch and hammer, hold-t hold-t hand over the bnrrel of the jibe gun oither became hented (Iated firing or Mr. Keough hard, and ihe powder ex-fe ex-fe left hand catching the force aploBion. Besides the little I the left hand considerable the back of the hand was Iiion burst and two pieces of Mm in the right log, infiict-jounds. infiict-jounds. Mr. "Keough was tie L. D. S. hospital, where ws attended the injuries. It Jived that Mr Keough will Nfl Oassidy's Cannon, ridy, a young son of John ? Fir street, is of an in-irao in-irao he improvised a young ?n a hollow bicvele "pump tit nearly full of powder, at-PPUe at-PPUe to a 2x4. The cannon P OS as soon as Johnnie Jo-JRht to, so he poked his S s muzzle. There was a "plosion and Johnnie was t-Mark's hospital. Besides wee w,th powder, the ex-i ex-i da.maKetl "is left eye, itnd ay be impaired if not tie-t& tie-t& quantity of burnt powder W from the lad 's face. mA 1 Berg of Third West fi nrth. 9trcets required the mLDr A- R Lombard Thurs-tat Thurs-tat st,K'lt firecrackers K, hul1 thnt 1,(2 micht hold g-n while they exploded. One r ; l exlloded the cap in J thq cartridge and blew a XT J?i , ;al through Berg's hand, -RinR its "gctnwav" bo' K nmb and the index linger w3? I loAl should dc-- dc-- -ltbf J "omlition for the MVlject lad named Christen- MB 01 tll(i h8'"css end of 'Vie vmixa Prc,nature celcbrn-Tit celcbrn-Tit c ' anfl is minus the u'.bnrnuel G. Paul attended X&S'i! waa lllyctry in tho SO rIle 'or(l "canHo" in JKl Jn - ro.8 knl :it tlle fi,' MtotiL'T 3lory ol ma of !W5noT5 taa,ll"t dernoiiatra-MkZ dernoiiatra-MkZ frtll Fourth, Until 1 4V tu torno". with the ex-Cfi ex-Cfi 0r four fi"S, Rvn08 Wero reported. ICx- i bv'n ,;a-1!a1 veiling 9 'n a ilr ol,auistt was dam- 'Wi c'1- y insurance. (Ik ,, 5 Trcs,( ence, on Third Kto i tk K atroots. was HHle icxtc,nt of "bout J0 n' a f armor-of East Mill creek, tried hiB luck at experimenting with a big red bomb yesterday with the result that he will for the rest of hifl davs sro about minus his forefinger. Ho was celebrating the glorious Fourth near Wandamero park. He not a number of lnrce bomb shells ofi and seemed liiirhlv enthusiastic in his cclcbnitiou, wlTcn, to his surprise, the largest one of the number went off in his hand. His forefinger was blown ontircly ofi and the otKer four were not seriously but nain fully injured. A doctor was summoned and 'bandaged the hand. Dunsou was removed to his home and hit evening wan reported to be suffering suffer-ing greatly from the wound. Powder in His Eyc3. lbert BriBon, the lu-ycar-old son of ' S. Brison of Murray wub .among 'the number to bo painfu ly injured while celebrating the Fourth. He was at Liberty parE shooting small fire-?rickcrs. fire-?rickcrs. Ho threw out, a cracker and t nnparentlv went out. Ho stooped down to blow on the fuse when i SvSodoVl in his face, throwing powder fn eyes and burning Iiib eyebrows d liair Ho fell down in a faint ? 1 was Picked up by his father. A .inu v ' i ' trro iiuls was summoned 'Wnfle? Sirefu examination found lw his eyes were full of burnt powder. TingiAZ: ia not sirious. |