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Show PETER JfllSfll IS ! hurt vmm His Injuries Are Painful, bul Are Not Considered . Serious. . Peter Johuon, nsod H years, a laborer, 10 Juitnlnps avenue, wn painfully injutad shortly after I o'clock yesterday afternoon, after-noon, while at work on a sower ditch in Jennings avonue, as the result of a premature pre-mature explosion of three sticks of dynamite, dyna-mite, used to blast where tho ground was frozen. Aftr putting a charce of tho explosive In the ground JohuiKm limited tho fuse. lutUoad of taking Its normal course the fmse "spit." the Maine jumped ahead of j thb fuse and Ignited tha pdwdcr, canning an explosion. The charge of powder blew up Into Johnson' face, cutting him badly and Injuring hla loft eye. as well an lacerating his hands. Tho injured man way removed to the , emergency hospital, where bin wounds were Alre-sscd by Pr. II. H. Sprague. assistant as-sistant city physician. Johnson was Inter removed to his home. According to the attending physician, his eyesight will not. suffer permanent injury. |