Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-14 | Page 21 | Boy Explodes Shell with Fatal Result |

Type	issue
Date	1913-09-14
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
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Article Title	Boy Explodes Shell with Fatal Result
Type	article
Date	1913-09-14
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Page	21
OCR Text	Show BOY EXPLODES SHELL WITH FATAL RESULT NEW YORK, Sopt. 13. Joseph Pizza, aged 15, found an odd-looking shell ln the home of a playmate today and took it to the cellar to llnd out what It was. He turned It on the pointed end and, by placlnc objects around It. got it to stand upright, Then ho got a hammer. In the resultant explosion tho boy's right hand was blown off, his face burned, his leg badly lacerated and his shoulder cut. The concrete flooring of the cellar waa blown to atoms and the furnace converted Into scrap. Young Pizza probably will die. It was the shell of a rapid-fire gun-
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